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Martha’s rule: the medical profession should embrace it
October 11, 2023
Dementia’s medical-industrial-charity complex
October 11, 2023
Informing consent to antibodies in Alzheimer’s disease
October 11, 2023
GMC clarifies intervention in UK Supreme Court case restricting scope of Montgomery duty of care to patients
October 11, 2023
Urine testing in elderly people—what about the negative predictive value?
October 10, 2023
Doctor apprenticeships in the UK—we need clarification
October 10, 2023
Letby case: why did no-one contact the police earlier?
October 10, 2023
No blame policy is not no blame culture
October 10, 2023
Letby case: lack of parity in oversight or response
October 10, 2023
Letby case: the public deserves the truth; whistleblowers deserve protection
October 9, 2023
Letby case: NHS work should be externally reviewed regularly
October 9, 2023
Impact of the cancer referral threshold
October 5, 2023
Asylum seekers’ boats: from the perils of drowning to the hazards of Legionnaires’ disease
October 5, 2023
Atopic eczema in under 12s: signpost families to online resources
October 4, 2023
Letby and managerial regulation—a warning for NHS culture
October 4, 2023
Religion and health: complexities and contradictions
September 29, 2023
We need irreversible elimination of all stockpiles of nuclear weapons
September 29, 2023
No, degrowth won’t save us
September 28, 2023
Oil and gas exploration, green electricity, and carbon capture in saving the world
September 28, 2023
Workforce planning requires a broader view than focusing on one area of bottleneck
September 28, 2023
SGLT2 inhibitors: here we go again?
September 28, 2023
Slow adoption of evidence based practices in nephrology
September 28, 2023
Engaging the public in digital health
September 25, 2023
Continuing disquiet on the data front: involve your local Caldicott guardian
September 25, 2023
Winter planning: tackle workforce strain in urgent and emergency care
September 22, 2023
Health MOTs are not practical as routine activities
September 22, 2023
Health MOTs: consider reference change values
September 22, 2023
Covid-19 boosters: improving patient information leaflets
September 21, 2023
Video consultations are here to stay
September 20, 2023
Industry funding and self-censorship: how many bite the hand that feeds them?
September 19, 2023
Do not ignore the non-linear, longstanding effects of integrated children’s centres
September 19, 2023
New and follow-up outpatient appointments are out of date concepts
September 18, 2023
Authors’ reply to Oke and Welch
September 13, 2023
Making international trainees feel welcome: why did we stop providing accommodation?
September 13, 2023
Making international trainees feel welcome: don’t forget Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
September 12, 2023
Breast cancer: conflating case fatality with mortality
September 12, 2023
The NHS workforce plan: promoting health and social care in secondary schools
September 12, 2023
Local ownership of health can be flexible and forward looking
September 12, 2023
Voluntary sector is missing from the NHS workforce plan
September 12, 2023
Promoting psychosocial approaches for more compassionate mental health services
September 11, 2023
Compassion in acute mental health services: Balint groups can help doctors understand mental distress
September 11, 2023
The NHS workforce plan: building resilient teams and retention of senior clinicians must be prioritised
September 8, 2023
What is my risk, doctor? Let’s stop giving patients irrelevant information
September 7, 2023
Physician associates in the United States
September 5, 2023
Faculty of Physician Associates: voluntary register, competency framework, and supervision for physician associates
September 4, 2023
Physician associates: avoiding blame culture
September 4, 2023
Physician associates in general practice: a GP registrar’s perspective
September 4, 2023
The physician associate role remains poorly understood
September 4, 2023
Authors’ reply to Bray
August 24, 2023
Chronic pain is not merely a physical sensation
August 24, 2023
We must change course to create a world free from the threats of nuclear annihilation and armed violence
August 23, 2023
Healthcare services are required by law to make adjustments for those with brain injury
August 23, 2023
Chronic primary pain isn’t a primary diagnosis
August 23, 2023
Chronic pain: a flawed and harmful dichotomisation
August 22, 2023
Chronic pain: a silent killer
August 22, 2023
Chronic pain management focuses on the individual, not on the pain
August 22, 2023
Is current UK transparency on clinical trials enough?
August 22, 2023
Vaping: the epidemic that isn’t hidden
August 18, 2023
Prostate cancer screening: better outcomes from early detection
August 18, 2023
Diets of under 5s in the UK: any new national food strategy must consider socioeconomic factors
August 18, 2023
Lung cancer screening will be hampered by poor recording of searchable smoking terminology in GP computer systems
August 17, 2023
In response to the call for black blood donors
August 16, 2023
Banning toxic pesticides is effective at preventing suicides in South Asia
August 16, 2023
The trachea transplant scandal and “compassionate use”
August 10, 2023
The carbon footprint of ICUs depends on the electricity mix of the national or local grid
August 10, 2023
Urgent call to protect children and their health in Sudan
August 9, 2023
Harnessing the knowledge of doctors who retire early
August 9, 2023
Opioid use disorder: is history repeating itself with sufentanil?
August 7, 2023
Returning to work in secondary care is tricky
August 7, 2023
Menopausal hormone therapy and dementia: causal link remains uncertain rather than unlikely
August 2, 2023
Situational Judgement Test
August 2, 2023
Why we need to ask less of medical students
August 2, 2023
The current foundation programme allocation system impedes student development
August 2, 2023
Build healthy habits to counteract burnout
August 2, 2023
Call for more reusable items in intensive care gives me déjà vu
August 1, 2023
Organisational change needed to move towards net zero for asthma care
August 1, 2023
Study results show vitamin D is around 99% ineffective in preventing major cardiovascular events
August 1, 2023
There is no evidence that vitamin D prevents cardiovascular events
August 1, 2023
Authors’ reply to Braithwaite
July 26, 2023
Risk of diabetes with statins: comparing apples with oranges
July 26, 2023
What is my risk, doctor? Patients should be told risks of untreated disease and side effects of treatment
July 26, 2023
Reflections on the NHS at 75: postgraduate training is the problem
July 26, 2023
Don’t assume that cutting back on cancer diagnosis would improve other services
July 25, 2023
Cancer care has not caused waiting lists to mushroom
July 25, 2023
The NHS at 75: let’s stand up for regaining and retaining NHS principles
July 25, 2023
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended
July 25, 2023
The NHS at 75: income inequality is the main driver of poor health
July 25, 2023
Threshold and conversion rates are not directly comparable
July 21, 2023
Visibility of retracted articles: journals struggle to make retractions in the first place
July 21, 2023
Apologies are human, not an admission of guilt
July 21, 2023
Poliomyelitis foreshadows the next pandemic
July 19, 2023
Relentless administrative obligations will grind us down
July 19, 2023
One female perspective on diversity in peer review
July 19, 2023
Authors’ reply to Xu
July 19, 2023
Saving the planet with reduced routine DMARD blood monitoring frequency
July 18, 2023
The best managers would be doctors
July 18, 2023
The NHS should focus on existing managers rather than hiring more
July 18, 2023
Retract or be damned: the “bystander effect” is worsening the situation
July 18, 2023
Humility is vital in science, even for The BMJ
July 17, 2023
Community of spoon carving
July 17, 2023
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