My mother was horrified when she discovered I’d become “one of those people who refuse patients drugs because they’re too expensive.” Barely a week goes by without another story in […]
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Julian Sheather on the Wellcome exhibition “Life Before Death”
Jannik Boehmfeld is dead. He is six years old, a year younger than my eldest son. He is lying on his back. His mouth is open but his eyes are […]
Deborah Cohen attends the Periodical Publishers Association Awards
Ever thought the BMJ would be competing in the same publishing awards as Nuts magazine? To be fair, some of you probably did – not least because of the extensive […]
Anna Donald: Making meaning in the now, for the now
First, I want to thank the many people who have posted such thoughtful comments to this blog. I’ve been a bit overwhelmed, though not surprised, by people’s generosity (again and […]
David Payne: The demise of the email
Email and mobile phones are certainly the bane of most people’s lives, but the generation of students who have never known life without the internet seem to be managing fine […]
Joe Collier: An end in sight for the secretive drug price fixing pact between government and industry
By September this year it is almost certain that a new system will be in place for determining how much the NHS will pay for its brand name medicines. For […]
Julian Sheather: Does art make people better doctors?
Recently a colleague of mine, a GP, told me she was taking a three-month sabbatical. She was going to sit on an island in the Mediterranean and do very little […]
Anna Donald: Tests
Test results can be nerve racking. They turn a complex stream of life into a binary event in which your fate seems to hang in the balance. I was especially […]
Mark Lewis: A wounded survivor
Thank you for all the replies to my last blog – I’ve had a lot of very kind feedback and sympathy from readers. […]
Ian Roberts: Slim chances for a fat planet
Last week the geopolitics of the biofuel debacle looked something like this. On the left both geographically and politically, we had Evo Morales, President of the very poor and increasingly […]