If the NHS is to meet the challenges it faces, trusts must do all they can to show junior doctors that they are valued and supported […]
Paul Myatt: Making the NHS a great place to work for junior doctors
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Multiculturalism: science, discourse, humanities
To recap. After C P Snow’s 1959 Rede Lecture “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, the Cambridge literary critic, F R Leavis, in his 1962 Richmond Lecture, “The Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow” venomously slandered Snow’s abilities as a novelist and intellectual. Snow then wrote another essay, “The Two Cultures: A […]
Edward Gilbert-Kawai: Blue-ink bandits
I write in patients’ notes in blue ink. Not only does this enable me to find my previous inserts rapidly among the ever-increasing reams of paperwork, but perhaps more importantly, I believe it is neater for others to decipher my writing, and thus safer for patient care. Unfortunately, however, I am all too often accosted […]
Ann Starrs: A critical moment to increase investments in women’s family planning needs
Investments in sexual and reproductive health are critical for saving lives and reducing ill-health among women and their children […]
Michael Brady: We now have all the tools to stop HIV for good—but stigma still persists
Almost exactly one year ago, there was a little known breakthrough that quietly started to change everything for people with HIV. The findings from the landmark PARTNER Study were published last July. Out of 58,000 instances of condomless sex in heterosexual and MSM couples recorded in the study; where one partner was HIV positive and […]
Joann Elmore: When diagnostic uncertainty hits home
Joann Elmore discusses how being diagnosed with suspected melanoma altered the focus of her research […]
Kieran Walsh: What if everything you knew about medical education was wrong?
Learners have to be active. This is something that I have heard a lot and also said a lot in the years I have been involved medical education. The idea that learners have to be active has driven educators to set up small group teaching, problem based learning, interactive educational resources, and a range of […]
Shivani Randev: The system needs to change to tackle violence against doctors in India
Reports of violence against doctors in India are no longer rare instances. They have become an everyday feature in the media. But finally doctors have started to fight back. Almost 4000 resident doctors in the state of Maharashtra went on strike to protest against incidents of assault, their only demand being better security in their workplace. These incidents […]
Nishma Manek: How can we attract and retain a workforce that may be developing its own set of social norms?
Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England, gave a speech recently at the NHS Confederation’s conference that prompted another set of millennial-bashing headlines. [1] I’m a millennial. We’re defined as those currently aged between 20 and 37, often cited as one of the great scourges of modern times. Apparently, the year I was born […]
John Ashton: Public health must constantly be challenging
With the nation still reeling from the shock of the recent Grenfell Tower fire in West London, in which so many of our most disadvantaged citizens died, Martin McKee reminds us that the public’s health is fundamentally a political matter. Martin points to the importance of public health in confronting those in power, defining the […]