What did you do during lockdown? I estimated my equilibrium energy intake
If it moves, it’s biology. If it smells, it’s chemistry. If it doesn’t work, it’s physics. Or, at least, so the saying goes. But, as I often tell my postgraduate […]
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Pallavi Bradshaw: Virtual care beyond the pandemic
While use of technology in delivering medical services has been slowly evolving over the years, covid-19 has fast-tracked large-scale adoption and led to policy change. The benefits have been indisputable […]
Aarti Bansal and Grant Blashki: Six steps to both greener and better primary care
Most primary care clinicians are well aware that the climate crisis is a health crisis and of the immediate and significant health co-benefits of climate action, such as through reduced […]
Millie Perry: “Could you just try bleeding this patient for me please?”
I used to dread hearing that question on placement. This may seem ridiculous, for someone who was just 18 months away from becoming an FY1, when you are famously expected […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—12 December 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Massage and malaria
Three words reflecting two types of Chinese therapies can be found among the biomedical words first cited from 1979 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (Table 1)—tui na, a form […]
Mary P Mercer: Beyond the marathon—notes from the relay of pandemic response
“We’ve been sprinting a marathon,” the email read. I sighed after reading it. It was the tenth time in as many days this analogy was used to discuss the pace […]
Women in surgery: We should be asking how to make the specialty somewhere women want to work
It is not enough to encourage women to enter surgery if the workplace then discriminates against them, write Roisin Finn and colleagues […]
The importance of the morning coffee break
Every morning at around 10.30am a screen message is circulated in our GP practice; “Coffee in 10 minutes?” The replies follow, “Yes, see you soon,” “Will be up as soon […]
Could Slovakia’s mass testing programme work in England?
What is happening in Slovakia and what lessons might it hold for the UK? […]