Healthcare is complex and no single government can manage alone […]
Tessa Richards: Better together in Central and Eastern Europe
Chris Simms: Russian dolls—revealing Trump’s diminution of the common good
A few weeks ago, two of Donald Trump’s top advisers, H R McMaster and Gary Cohn, astonished many in the world community when they wrote in The Wall Street Journal that “The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a clear eyed outlook that the world is not a ‘global community’ but an arena […]
Liam Brennan: The election result can breathe new life into the NHS
Jeremy Hunt, newly re-installed as health secretary, is set to speak at the NHS Confederation Annual Conference this week in a speech that could set the tone on health for this parliament and potentially the future of the NHS. The election result may have brought a considerable amount of uncertainty, but there can be no […]
Simon Wessely et al: The most common response to traumatic events is resilience
Morale largely depends on care in first 36 hours: rest centres, facilities for children, information, healthcare, and food […]
William Cayley: Can we beat the productivity paradox by working smarter, not harder?
During my morning drive recently, a radio story on the “productivity paradox” caught my attention. Briefly put, the story explored economists’ concerns that despite ongoing technological development, our actual work productivity (ie. value produced per hour worked) on a global scale has stagnated. We seem to be coming up with fancier and more developed ways to […]
Richard Smith: Is evidence based medicine a form of microfascism?
My friend Nicholas Christakis recently tweeted: “Critique of evidence based medicine on grounds that it is exclusionary and ‘colonized’” providing a link to the critical article. He added an NB to me, and the result was that I was a witness to a Twitter squall (not quite a storm). Most of the tweeters were appalled by […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—12 June 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Medicine is still a victim of war—we desperately need new ideas
What we are witnessing is war without restraint. But what do we do to stop it? […]
Martin McKee: Creating chaos and confusion from strength and stability—the general election 2017
The chaos that has resulted from the result of the general election has important implications for health, says Martin McKee […]
Buddha Basnyat: Zika in India—the case for prompt reporting
After India waited months to disclose that it had identified cases of Zika, Buddha Basnyat argues that withholding information about highly contagious diseases can add to the problem of containment […]