By Nathan Douthit Large-scale destruction of health services is a feature of modern warfare which today tends to be intrastate (civil war) rather than interstate. Whereas at the time of the World War I 90% of the injured were combatants, by the end of the last century 90% of casualties were civilian. The demand on in-country health […]
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Making a difference in the developing world
By Marcus Chong In 2016, while conducting medical research in a rural village of Northern Samar, the Philippines, Professor Allen Ross and his global health research team met a patient with severe electrical burns. He was a construction worker who had suffered an electrical burn at work from an overhanging high voltage electrical wire carrying […]
Making a Difference
By Nathan Douthit Global Health Case Reports (GHCR) at BMJ Case Reports can help practitioners of global health in all settings, cultures and situations. These practitioners are doctors, nurses, social workers, students, dentists and others who care about those missed by more traditional healthcare models. They seek to treat the patient but also to change […]
Self-medication and access to care in Global Health
By Nathan Douthit I am a local village doctor. I came to the eye hospital escorted by two people in view of my severe eye condition and blindness. Fortunately, I was immediately relieved of my symptoms and my vision was restored after treatment. I am now completely aware of the ill effects of using home […]
15,000 Cases Reports Published
By Nathan Douthit BMJ Case reports published its 15,000th case earlier this year. This milestone represents innumerable hours of patient interaction, research, writing, and editing. These cases have given a forum for health professionals and students to discuss difficult and interesting cases of high educational value and to use their patient experiences as a means […]
A large force of health system- the medical students: have they been utilized adequately?
BMJ Elective: A new experience leading a newer perspective….The Patient-centered learning. By Vivek Podder Currently, undergraduate medical education is largely limited to the lectures or textbooks based teaching-learning approach rather than a patient-centered learning in various parts of the world. Lack of formal training for students in medical school as well as lack of future […]
Cultural Competence in Global Health
By Nathan Douthit [I]n the…aim to produce cultural competence, one dimension to be avoided is… narrowly defining competence… in its traditional sense: an easily demonstrable mastery of a finite body of knowledge. Rather, cultural competence…is best described… as a commitment and active engagement in a lifelong process that individuals enter into on an ongoing basis […]
15,000 Case Reports Published
We are pleased to announce BMJ Case Reports has now published over 15,000 cases online. BMJ Case Reports is an important educational resource offering a high volume of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. Seema Biswas, Editor in Chief […]
Stigma as a Barrier to Global Health Care
By Nathan Douthit “People who are excluded…are not ‘just like’ the rest of the poor, only poorer. They are also disadvantaged by who they are or where they live, and as a result, are locked out of the benefits of development.”[1] In ‘HIV-associated dementia in the Dominican Republic: a consequence of stigma, domestic abuse and […]
Use of Telemedicine to Deliver Global Medical Care
By Nathan Douthit Telemedicine is an important developing field for global health. Its use has been endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), Medecins Sans Frontieres and multiple other national health services and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Telemedicine has multiple definitions, but the one endorsed by the WHO is: “The delivery of health care services, where […]