I am not sure why the great tribe of mock orange shrubs is named after brotherly love: the charms of this one suggest another sort of love altogether, and very […]
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One in five juniors has considered over MTAS suicide, survey shows
Preliminary results of a survey conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists indicate that as many as one in five junior doctors applying for posts through MTAS have considered suicide […]
Academics join forces to highlight plight of brightest medics
Academics from Cambridge University have joined forces to highlight the plight of some of the most academically gifted doctors who they say are losing out under the MTAS interview process. […]
JAMA 13 Jun 2007 Vol 297
Do you pay attention to the haematocrit? In case you’d forgotten, it should lie between 39% and 54%, and in case you thought it’s a waste of time, here is […]
NEJM 14 Jun 2007 Vol 356
This meta-analysis of rosiglitazone and cardiovascular events appeared on the NEJM website some weeks ago, and few readers with an interest in diabetes can have failed to read something or […]
BMJ 16 Jun 2007 Vol 334
Diagnostic studies are abundant, but I continue to be amazed that senior researchers often write about things like “specificity” and “sensitivity” as if they are not context-dependent. […]
Lancet 16 Jun 2007 Vol 334
In the stories of Russia 120 years ago, by Turgenev, Chekhov and Tolstoy, there is a recurring scene: the landowner or his bailiff meets a crowd of discontented peasants and […]
Arch Intern Med 11 Jun 2007 Vol 167
The kidney is really just a sophisticated extension of the cardiovascular system, and in end-stage cardiac disease, measures of renal function provide the strongest prognostic markers (apart from B-type natriuretic […]
Plant of the Week: Geranium x Magnificum
When I first started writing about plants in these reviews, I concentrated on neglected treasures, until a reader complained that he could never find a single plant I described. […]
JAMA 6 Jun 2007 Vol 297
Folic acid is a vitamin which is particularly necessary for fast-dividing cells – which is why we use folate antagonists to kill bacteria and cancers. But it is still a […]