How many tabs have you got open on your web browser? I’ve got 27: six Airbnb properties in Cornwall, five Google maps with journey times to Cornish towns, six recipes for toad in the hole, three attempts to login to BMJ Learning, and the Guardian homepage at various points during the past three weeks. It’s […]
Medical students are constantly encouraged to publish academic work, but they are rarely instilled with the value of what the potential impact of that work could be, says Abraar Karan. […]
One of the first executive orders that Donald Trump signed after his inauguration as president of the United States was to impede the financing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with “everything possible within the law.” There have been many commentaries speculating on the potential fallout from such a move, but we think the issues […]
Safeguarding vulnerable children is a priority for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). I have therefore been closely following the passage of the Children and Social Work Bill through Parliament over the past few months. This bill updates and amends existing children’s social care legislation and aims to “make provision about looked […]
Some people are born into the world to enrich it. To give more than they could ever take. To bring to others a rare glimpse into a future we could all help achieve if we had the wit, resolve, humility, compassion, and the love, which Rosamund brought to everything she did and everyone she touched. Such […]
Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature article provides a summary. It is never going to be easy to provide health services in a small town that is 73 miles by a […]
How should a European clinical academic react to the fact that the US election appears to have sent a racist, misogynist, climate change denier to the White House? One response, arising in the context of President Trump’s ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries entering the US, has been a call to boycott US […]
Hans Rosling died last Tuesday (7 February 2017) at the age of 68, as the Gapminder Foundation—which he co-founded—announced. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and the many of us who will miss his contributions to the public discourse. A medical doctor and professor for international health at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, Rosling became famous […]
The MacCraith report (2014) into medical training recognised that having junior doctors in leadership positions improved communication between hospital management and junior doctors. However, involving junior doctors in the running and management of our health service brings many benefits besides that. In 2013 the Irish health service established the lead non-consultant hospital doctor (NCHD) initiative. Lead […]
Although Valentine’s Day is often criticised as a cynical creation of florists and the greeting cards industry, it is a useful focal point for considering love and sexuality as elements of human wellbeing that often escape attention in healthcare. This neglect is most marked for later life, when popular discourse on late life romance is […]