The BMA has pulled out of talks on the review of MTAS. Proposals issued by the review group last night would have limited each junior doctor to just one interview in the current job round. […]
No news…could be good news?
Despite a meeting of the MTAS review group yesterday, there’s been a deathly silence from the Department of Health on its progress. All that the BMA – one of the group’s members – will say is: “We are using all available avenues to apply pressure on the government to come up with an adequate solution […]
Patience, patients
Handwashing talks are the same the world over. Last time I wrote about handwashing, I got my wrists slapped by my colleagues in infection control. […]
MTAS row hits Westminster
The government’s Modernising Medical Careers agenda, following the MTAS march at the weekend, hit Westminster yesterday as health secretary Patricia Hewitt faced questioning from MPs led by Conservative health spokesman Andrew Lansley. Ms Hewitt reiterated the government’s commitment to a computerised application process, and said the Department of Health would continue to work to ensure […]
Plant of the Week: Narcissus pseudo-narcissus
Wordsworth’s poem about daffodils, I wandered lonely as a cloud, has divided opinion ever since it was first published in 1807. […]
Arch Intern Med 12 Mar 2007 Vol 167
Longevity is a subject which has interested people from the dawn of history. […]
Lancet 17 Mar 2007 Vol 369
And still they come. Any hope that big trials of new interventions for acute coronary syndromes were about to dry up, and that the sound of the silly acronym would no longer be heard in the land, can safely be dismissed. […]
BMJ 17 Mar 2007 Vol 334
Who gives a stuff about impact factors? […]
NEJM 15 Mar 2007 Vol 356
There have been lots of studies about the best place to have myocardial infarction (answer: close to a major hospital) but this is the first I have read about the best time to have one. […]
JAMA 14 Mar 2007 Vol 297
The American health care system is a mess. […]