Dave deBronkart: Can a compelling graphic lead to better care plans?

This graphic was published last year with little fanfare. Recently it appeared on social media in patient circles, and was immediately met with dozens of shares, comments, tweets, and retweets: • “Smart way to communicate chronic disease burden.” • “One for clinicians to ponder if they think they understand the burden of Type 1 diabetes.” • […]

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BMJ in the News 2016: Medical errors, Zika, and Pokémon make global news headlines

Medicine and health regularly dominate news headlines—and this year was no different. The Zika outbreak, NHS crisis, and countless studies on nutrition, diet, and fitness were among those to make top news globally. Here are The BMJ’s top articles that received the most amount of media attention in 2016, illustrating some of these trends. […]

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Richard Smith: What if all the works of Democritus had survived and those of Aristotle been lost

Richard Feynman, the great physicist, conducted a thought experiment in which he asked what one statement would he save if all of scientific knowledge was lost. His answer: “All things are made of atoms–little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being […]

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