What will you be doing on 6 April? There is a high chance that you’ll spend much of the day sat in front of a computer, perhaps seeing patients at the same time. You’re also likely some time in the day to be in a car, bus, or train, consuming carbon. Well, I urge you […]
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some just general. […]
After 11 days, the total strike of all government healthcare workers in Sierra Leone has finally been elevated to a BBC World Service African news headline. Yesterday, the President called all the doctors and nurses to a meeting in a room at the Stadium. […]
“China pips India as the world’s most diabetic nation” ran the headlines in Hindustan Times (March 26, 2010). It almost sounded as if India’s pride had been hurt. Such a deep sense of defeat was not expressed even when China led the world winning 51 gold medals to India’s one and only in the 2008 […]
Reading the accounts in the BMJ of how various doctors and mangers would make savings in the NHS, I thought back to a series based on the same idea that I edited when I first arrived at the BMJ in 1979. Then I thought that in 1979 the cost of the NHS was about £35 […]
The non-executive asked a simple question; “Why can’t we just say no?” In the world of business they inhabit, this is a rational question. We were on one of our regular board development sessions. I had been endeavouring to explain why we were pursuing a particular course of action. Reasonably, but with a modicum of […]
The audience falls deathly silent in the flamboyantly adorned grand hall where scientists from across Africa have congregated to hear the announcement. Meanwhile, in distant homelands people crowd around televisions and radios, waiting with baited breath. “This year’s Royal African Science Prize is awarded for scientific achievement that has dramatically improved the health of millions of […]
GPs, politicians, journalists, and practice managers met for the Pandemic Summit at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) last Thursday to share their experiences on surviving the swine flu pandemic. Speakers included representatives from the Department of Health, ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control), and the RCGP. Fergus Walsh, the BBC’s health correspondent […]
Mr S looked calm and somewhat bemused by the commotion. He had twice unsuccessfully undergone standard treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and had been taking antiretrovirals for HIV for over a year—he was used to medications and health workers. But today was different. It was the first day of his multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment, and four staff […]
Good Medical Practice (2006) and other GMC guidance is all motherhood and apple pie, right? You read it once and put it on a shelf, because it doesn’t really help out there in the real world. But, when doctors email or ring us to ask for advice, we are almost always able to respond by […]