Despite my best efforts, I seem to have ended up with four sick babies and a mother with an infected Caesarian wound, all of us stranded in an unused wing of the fanciest hospital in Freetown. It all started on Wednesday when the doctors and nurses went on strike across the capital. As I have […]
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K. M. Venkat Narayan: Oozing With Confidence New India Takes On Education Challenges
In general, past trends may help to reliably predict the future of simple systems. Not so with complex dynamic systems, which are hard to predict, and when it comes to complexity and dynamism, new India is hard to beat, and therefore, hard to predict. In one of my earlier blogs (1 March, 2010), I asked […]
What we’re reading: 19 March 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general. […]
David Pencheon: Yes, we care.
There is a comforting logic in informing people before encouraging them to act. Take smoking. We may need to reframe the message depending on the person and what we suspect motivates them (“it’s like kissing an ashtray” or “non-smokers are more likely to meet their grandchildren”) but, as Muir Gray reminds us, ignorance is probably […]
Harry Brown: Online security and safety
It is amazing that in a relatively short period of time, many of us have come to rely so much, on the online world for some of our standard services. That could be buying books or groceries, banking and if you are a medic –education, learning and professional development. Of course we can still perform […]
Emily Spry: Doctors and Nurses on Strike
Here in Freetown, both the doctors’ and nurses’ associations have decided to go on strike with immediate effect. The strike has been precipitated by the Free Healthcare Initiative, which is due to remove user fees for healthcare for pregnant and nursing women and children under 5 years old on the 27th April 2010, Sierra Leone’s […]
What we’re reading 12 March 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general. […]
What we’re reading 5 March 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general. […]
Tony Waterston and Jean Bowyer on doughnut rounds, children’s rights and house evictions
Ten years after the inception of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories, the third 2 year cycle is about to start. The purpose of the team’s visit was to offer an Education for Educators course for new tutors. This was a two day course covering educational […]
What we’re reading – 26 February 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general. […]