Will the Parkland students and the #NeverAgain movement be able to keep up the momentum? […]
Elizabeth Loder: Gun violence in the US—the kids (and Miss America) will fix it for us
Category: Editors at large
Theodora Bloom and Navjoyt Ladher: Diversity in clinical research and scholarly publishing
It’s International Women’s Day, so we’re all being challenged to think about how far we’ve managed to eliminate gender biases in our work. What’s going on in sexism and diversity for academic research and scholarly publishing? At a rallying talk for editors of BMJ’s journals (Twitter #bmjeds) this morning, Pavel Ovseiko from Oxford’s Radcliffe Department […]
Anya de Iongh: Are patients and carers healthcare’s untapped workforce?
On Wednesday 31 January, the dark and cold weather was a contrast to the warmth, passion, and dynamism of the contributions to The BMJ’s first Twitter chat of 2018. 800 plus tweets were sent from over 125 people on the topic of patients as partners in the workforce. The chat was stimulated by Tessa Richards’s BMJ […]
Richard Hurley: End of life care—the assisted dying debate continues
Assisted dying remains deeply contentious for all […]
Tessa Richards: Solidarity in a cold climate
Tromsø lies over 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and last week, after months of polar nights it celebrated its first glimpse of the sun; and hosted two international meetings. One on global health and cross national initiatives aimed at promoting solidarity on health. A second on how to foster environmentally and socially sustainable […]
Anya de Iongh: Patients need to be activated, but so do clinicians and the system
It has been three and half years since The King’s Fund published a report on Patient Activation, and since then patient activation is increasingly on people’s radars. Patient activation is a model of an individual’s level of knowledge, confidence, and skills for managing their own health and healthcare, with highly activated patients taking responsibility and […]
Annabel Ferriman: Doctors as polymaths—12 months of BMJ Confidential
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. One of the themes this year has been doctors “coming out.” Comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay said that his mother cried when he […]
Tessa Richards: Patient leaders—healthcare’s untapped workforce
The health sector needs to learn how to work with patient leaders, says Tessa Richards. […]
Robin Baddeley: An uncomfortable mismatch between control and responsibility
This mismatch is the elephant in the room, and the key to understanding the medical profession’s response to the Bawa-Garba case […]
Tessa Richards: Patient and public involvement in research goes global
More and more, organisations are seeking to push the envelope towards “co-production” of research […]