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Gro Harlem Brundtland: New WHO guidelines are crucial step to fighting antimicrobial resistance

Posted on December 6, 2017December 13, 2017 by BMJ

If urgent action is not taken to combat antimicrobial resistance, then development gains could be wiped out with alarming consequences for us all […]

Sadaf Karim Sulaiman: Do you debrief?

Posted on December 6, 2017December 5, 2017 by BMJ

Traumatic events–including major and minor incidents, near misses, death, and major disability–prompt strong emotional stress responses in healthcare professionals [1]. Following its success in military services, debriefing among healthcare teams is being used more and more frequently in emergency departments and intensive care units after traumatic events. Unfortunately, despite the potential advantages to patient safety […]

Tom Jefferson: The UK turns to Witty, Vallance, and Van Tam for leadership: revolving doors?

Posted on December 6, 2017December 12, 2017 by BMJ

Revolving doors are used to facilitate entry or exit into a building. The trick with using these doors is always to get your timing right. Too fast or too slow and you get stuck. The analogy seems apposite for a brace of recent announcements of important pharmaceutical industry figures taking over parts of UK operations […]

Clare Gerada: Why has medicine become such a miserable profession?

Posted on December 5, 2017December 14, 2017 by BMJ

Medicine has always been a hard taskmaster, yet more and more we hear about the unrest and dissatisfaction of doctors across the world […]

Richard Smith: Strong evidence of bias against research from low income countries

Posted on December 5, 2017December 20, 2017 by BMJ

I have taught classes on how to get published in scientific journals in many low and middle income countries, and just about every participant in every class has thought that science journals are biased against research from low and middle income countries. I think that they are as well, but strong evidence of the effect […]

Jen Gosling: “Difficult” is a difficult word

Posted on December 5, 2017 by BMJ

“They keep saying I’m difficult”, the patient wept. “I feel so guilty; I worry that they think I’m not co-operating”. It was the second time in a week that we had met. Both times, after multiple unsuccessful attempts at cannulation, the patient had been told that the anaesthetist would be along “to have a go”. […]

Ruth Campbell: How can we make sure that immigration detainees’ health-related human rights are protected?

Posted on December 4, 2017December 8, 2017 by BMJ

The UK opened its first “detention unit” in 1970—in a converted road research laboratory near Heathrow Airport. The Immigration Appeals Act 1969 had just been passed, and the UK was struggling to manage the citizenship appeals of people arriving from its former colonies. This first centre had room for 44 people. There are now 11 […]