What can we learn from the great medical innovators of the past, asks David Jenkins The covid-19 pandemic has the potential to transform medical education. [1] The ramifications of the […]
Many commentators have rightly observed that the coronavirus pandemic has amplified long-standing socioeconomic and health inequalities, and exposed both the fragility of the UK’s social security system and the growing […]
The wide-ranging harms caused by unnecessarily delaying the decision on Christmas covid-19 restrictions are being felt by the whole country, says Mike Gill […]
Transparency is generally regarded as essential for public trust in medicines, and likely to lead to better decision-making. Yet lack of transparency has been a hallmark of the regulation of […]
Since the early days of the covid-19 outbreak in China, public health officials, scientists, medical professionals, media commentators, and the public at large started drawing comparisons between covid-19 and seasonal […]
Public health messaging should acknowledge the holistic experiences of individuals beyond just the pathogen, say Joshua Barocas and Monica Gandhi […]
When the UK government declared a national lockdown on 23 March 2020 in response to escalating rates of covid-19, Elliott Hall Medical Centre (EHMC) was overwhelmed with calls from concerned […]
The initial joy of reaching our final year of medical school soon gave way to anxiety about the occupational health assessment and faculty meetings that were to follow this year. […]
We have all been living La Vida Lockdown, but let’s face it, we have never seen more of our co-workers’ homes. Those who might never invite us in now have […]
The UK and other countries are now facing the logistics of rolling out the largest, most complex vaccination programme in history. The potential gains for individual and community safety are […]
