Pathology underpins all branches of medical practice. It provides the core of medicine and is key to understanding the mechanisms by which disease is produced and progresses. Medicine cannot be learnt, understood, and practised without sufficient undergraduate exposure to pathology. Undergraduates need a solid understanding of pathology to embrace major advances during their medical careers, […]
NHS England recently held a consultation on which items should be routinely prescribed in primary care. From this consultation, which closed last month, NHS England will produce national guidance to make prescribing more cost effective. One of the key proposals that has been mooted for this consultation (and which some clinical commissioning groups are already […]
In autumn 2016, I stepped out of my clinical training to become a leadership and management fellow at Health Education England (HEE), with the aim of gaining a different view on healthcare. In already-crowded curricula, there is limited time to expose junior doctors to leadership and management, despite its notable presence in the job descriptions […]
We as clinicians need to get playing that game […]
We need to make it easier for people with mental illnesses to enter and stay in work […]
“Universal health coverage is a human right.” This was a welcome statement from the new Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. [1] Europe, as one of the most affluent parts of the world with an admirable history of social protection and welfare states, should be leading the way in ensuring […]
The first thing that strikes you is their silence. The Rohingya are quiet, placid, and polite. They endure, accept, and hope. We hear repeatedly, stories of their men taken away, their women raped, and their villages burned. They have escaped over mountains and through rivers; sustained injuries, dehydration and malnutrition; and have finally reached a […]
The current regulatory system already tolerates a tremendous amount of uncertainty regarding cancer drugs in the real world and does not need more […]
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Artificiality is an ambiguous concept. The Latin adjective artificialis (from ars, art, and facere, to make) was introduced by the Roman rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35–100 AD), as a translation of the Greek word ἔντεχνος, artistic, artificial, or within the province of art; τέχνη meant an art, craft, or skill; a system, a method, […]