The sheer plasticity in the way we relate to one another amazes. Over any day I could be a father, a husband, a son (in-law), a teacher, a professor, a lecturer, a tutor, a supervisor, a doctor, a patient, a carer, a friend, a clown, an entertainer, a legal expert/opinion, a witness, a government advisor, […]
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Dr Harry’s netlines
The well known web site YouTube has amassed a reputation for containing a huge repository of video footage covering virtually every subject imaginable (and more). So it may come as no surprise that there are serious and educational videos to be found here. One video comes from the UK and covers cardiovascular examination. […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
The social networking site Mumsnet is running a lively debate about how breast feeding rates could be increased. It was triggered by two recent BMJ research articles. You can follow the debate at this link. Meanwhile, 23 signatories have writen a letter to The Times critising the UK Government’s failure to provide women with enough information […]
Ask not what your organisation can do for you…
As the NHS becomes more savvy about its responsibilities to the future (after all, do we really want to behave in a way that risks making us ALL patients tomorrow) we might want to consider the questions we should be asking of ourselves, or at least our own NHS organisation – be it a general […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
The BMJ received some praise this week in a blog by Revere, on the Science Blogs forum. Here is an extract: “Science journals are not just about science. They compete with each other for readership, public recognition and prestige. It used to be that in the UK publishing world The British Medical Journal (BMJ) was […]
Duncan Jarvies on digital health
Once the domain of big broadcasters like the BBC, video is now becoming more democratised. The plummeting cost and increasing quality of consumer cameras has opened up the world of filming to the masses. Internet services like youtube or vimeo have given people a platform to broadcast their movies. […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
Two BMJ studies published last week have been widely cited by the press. The first has found that women’s resting heart rate is a good predictor of coronary events in women. US researchers studied the heart rates of 129,000 postmenopausal women and found that those with the highest heart rates were more likely to have […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
The news that cello scrotum is a myth has captured the attention of the press this week and it has been widely cited both in the UK and internationally. The revelation comes as last week Elaine and John Murphy wrote a letter to the BMJ confessing that they invented the condition. They were inspired to […]
Borrowing from our children, or stealing from them?
I was standing next to one of the most senior health care managers in the UK recently when he again professed his admiration for the BMJ as the best journal for health care managers. It was at the launch of the Carbon Reduction Strategy for the NHS in England. Whenever I see a wealthy person […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
More than half of carers looking after relatives with dementia report acting abusively towards them according to a research paper published last week on bmj.com. The researchers, from University College London, found that a third admitted significant abuse, such as frequent insulting and swearing, and only 3 out of 220 carers admitted occasional physical abuse. […]