“Health is now the most important foreign policy issue of our time […]
Lancet 21 Oct 2006
Arch Intern Med 9 Oct 2006
The tabloids love a dirty hospital story. Epidemiologists too can relish using the words “nosocomial […]
Tony Delamothe on redesign of bmj.com (2)
Let’s start at the very beginning bmj.com will have a new “look and feel” come January 2007, provided by New York interactive agency, Digital Pulp. After that comes a range of new features. This is where you come in. With the Digital Pulp presentation on Web 2.0 ringing in my ears, I sit down to […]
Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon (2006) – view from Haifa/Safed
As Lisa Rubin, physician and public health officer in Haifa, northern Israel, who has been blogging for bmj.com since 7 August, leaves Haifa for a planned holiday, she starts to hand over this blog to her colleague, Ehud Miron, who runs the district health office in Safed. Wednesday, 16 August A time of reconstruction It […]
Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon (2006) – view from Beirut
Imad Uthman is an associate professor and rheumatologist at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon Friday, 1 September Field hospitals in the wrong fields Soon after the clashes erupted in Lebanon on July 12, three Arab countries (Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia) sent 3 military field hospitals to Beirut, with an intention in […]
Tony Delamothe: TED 2006 – The future we will create
Monterey, California Down on Fisherman’s Wharf, it’s ‘Prime time for the Gray Whale,’ according to the boat trip operators. Just offshore, colonies of sea lions are barking out their territorial claims. If such sensitive indicators of the planet’s health are hail and hearty, what could possibly be wrong? Loads, actually. The first afternoon of TED’s […]
Jane Smith: The 11th European Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
This is my visit to Prague and the first quality form I’ve attended since the first prototype in London, well over 10 years ago. It’s much bigger ‘ over 1000 delegates from 49 countries – and much more professionally run. […]
Jenny Kowalczuk: 11th European Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare
Quality and safety – inseparable partners on the improvement journey Quality and safety are intimately linked, hand in glove. You can’t really say you’re delivering quality healthcare without also addressing the safety of patients. As Associate Editor for saferhealthcare (the BMJ and National Patient Safety Agency?s joint website for patient safety) I’m always trying to sniff […]
Doug Kamerow on the World Health Care Congress, 2006
Washington, DC, 17 April 2006 Don’t know what to expect from this self-aggrandizingly named meeting. I’m familiar with medical association meetings, where politics and policy predominate, as well as research meetings, with endless paper presentations. But this one’s organized by a for-profit firm called World Congress (www.worldcongress.com) and features lots of big names (government and […]
Graham Easton: WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2005
Kyoto, Japan – Thursday 27th/Friday 28th May (From Ealing to Kyoto) What’s WONCA? As I practice my in-flight DVT prevention exercises I reflect on how, for the last few days, I’ve been telling people excitedly that I’m going to Kyoto for a medical conference. It’s my first time in Japan. Initially they seem interested, even […]