What is the psychology and motivation for doctors who do wrong? Gwen Adshead discusses the Paterson case […]
Gwen Adshead: Offending in theatre—the case of Ian Paterson
Eric D Perakslis: Cyber security modeled as infection prevention and control in the healthcare delivery setting
In the wake of the recent global cyber attack, Eric Perakslis discusses some basic principles of cyber security. […]
Reena Aggarwal: The AHCA poses a threat to women’s healthcare
Plans to defund Planned Parenthood in the US will damage women’s healthcare choices, says Reena Aggarwal […]
Adhisivam Bethou: A lesson from the neonatal unit
A few years back, when we were in the old block, our neonatal intensive care unit was small but had no dearth of tiny new citizens. Some of them were brief visitors: they would check in, hurriedly gobble up some oxygen molecules, and rush back to relish the colostrum in waiting. Some weren’t that quick […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—15 May 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Knowledge translation
You would think that the word “knowledge” comes from the word “know”, but it isn’t as simple as that. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) only says “probably”. The problem is that the noun and the verb differ markedly in both chronological occurrence and the sources of their earliest uses. According to the OED, the noun […]
Mark Davies: Five things I wish I’d known at the start of my career as a GP
Mark Davies discusses the key messages that he would pass on to other GPs […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: Just in time
Last ditch, last minute, eleventh hour: all expressions allowing a relieved sigh. There are no single, non-metaphorical words to replace them. Ultimate, late and final appear in lists of synonyms, but they don’t give the sense. Last minute and eleventh hour are synonymous: something done before time has run out. Last minute has always been […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: Medicine, from fiction to today
The Doctor’s Book Club Ben Winters Underground Airlines My country tis of thee, Late land of slavery, Of thee I sing. Land where my father’s pride Slept where my mother died, From every mountain side Let freedom ring! W E B Du Bois My Country ‘Tis of Thee Ben Winters’s Underground Airlines begins with a […]
Nick Hopkinson: Conservatism and the cancer drugs fund
Decisions about healthcare inevitably involve choices around the allocation of finite resources. Democracy, if it is meaningful, is public reasoning. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), established by Frank Dobson in 1999, though imperfect, represents a worthy attempt to conduct a reasoned assessment of what a decent health service should provide. When […]