Rebecca Black: Preventing suicides among doctors
The qualities, which make a good and caring doctor, are also the qualities, which place us at higher risk of mental illness […]
The qualities, which make a good and caring doctor, are also the qualities, which place us at higher risk of mental illness […]
To err is human, but how do healthcare professionals move forward after being confronted with avoidable errors on their watch? […]
Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature […]
Most of the dozen words with medical connections that I found in the Old English dictionary called the Epinal glossary are obsolete, with modern equivalents. For example, átr or atter. […]
The sheer breadth of doctors’ talents and abilities shone out from the pages of BMJ Confidential this year. We had doctors who were poets, masterchefs, novelists, comedians, actors and singers. […]
As I wrote last week, a cellular automaton is a computational system with two components: an ordered array of cells and a set of rules that determines the state of […]
A cellular automaton is a computational system with two components: an ordered array of cells, such as on a Go board, and a set of rules that determines the state […]
I love snowflakes. I enjoy crunching them underfoot on a crisp winter’s day and the silky feeling that you get when skiing through a fresh fall. The word “snowflake” entered […]
“It’s really quite hard not to feel outright anger at the evidence that we’ve heard over the last few months.” – Tony O’Sullivan This was the final session of the […]
Sarajevo on the morning of 29 May1992. The Serbian forces have surrounded the city. A Bosnian field commander reassures Esma Zecevic, the city’s chief paediatrician that the hospital will likely […]