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Tessa Richards: Terms of engagement for patient participation
Desmond O’Neill: Going digital for global medical humanities
To those teaching and researching the medical humanities, major exhibitions of great art represent a wonderful opportunity for a focal illumination of how medicine and the arts interact. However, for those who live a long way from the great galleries, the excellence of the writing and insights in the many reviews—including those in medical journals—are […]
Pauline Castres: Climate change cannot wait
The UK government’s climate advisers’ call for action The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the UK government’s official climate adviser, recently delivered its latest assessment of the UK’s progress to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and prepare for climate change. In its latest report to parliament, the CCC warns that progress made so far to […]
Richard Smith: Giving medical students patient contact through online consultation
Medical students arrive at medical school hungry to have contact with patients, but it can be unfair to unleash on patients students who know nothing of medicine and until yesterday were school children. Leicester Medical School has an innovative solution to this conundrum that has the added benefit of familiarising students with consulting online, something […]
Junaid Nabi: Can addressing the spiritual needs of patients help us deliver high quality end of life care?
Should doctors only engage in conversations about life, death, and dying when it pertains to clinical matters? Or is spiritual care part of a physician’s duties? […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: The other side of research in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Doctor’s Book Club Rebecca Skloot—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks On 27 August 1963, Emanuel Mandel, the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (JCDH), told his resident to inject cancer cells into unaware patients. This was not the first time that an experiment like this had taken place. Mandel’s work was […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 July 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Martin McKee: Theresa May’s proposals on EU citizens’ rights are neither fair nor serious
Anyone concerned with the long term future of the NHS should be very worried […]
Matt Morgan: Medical assessment in the age of the robot
The ability for doctors to ask the right questions and deal with uncertainty is becoming more important than ever […]
Chris Simms: Canada at 150—the racialization of healthcare
Canadians tend to look south of the border to the US to help define who they are and who they are not, often citing differences between the two healthcare systems—a tendency that has markedly increased since the rise of Trump. It seems poignant that as Canada celebrates its 150 years since Confederation (1 July 1867), the […]