Let us learn from litigation claims: actuarial tools can improve safety
Whether in-depth analysis of incident reporting can help promote the quality of assistance has long…
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Rheumatoid arthritis: NICE recommends more treatments for patients with moderate disease
Doctors can now prescribe the biological treatments adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab for patients with moderate…
Role of C reactive protein and procalcitonin in the diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infection in children in the outpatient setting
What you need to knowThe difficulty of discriminating between viral and bacterial lower respiratory tract…
David Bruce Bamber
David Bamber was an anaesthetist at Charing Cross Hospital, later part of the Imperial College…
Cecilia Elizabeth Thomas
bmj;373/jun10_7/n1466/FAF1faCecilia Elizabeth Thomas (née Mullen and known as “Celia”) spent her whole professional career in…
Bibek B Pradhan
bmj;373/jun10_11/n1470/FAF1faBibek B Pradhan was born in Nepal and was awarded a scholarship to study medicine…
Ghulam Farouq Faiz
bmj;373/jun10_10/n1473/FAF1faGhulam Farouq Faiz was born in Mashhad (Iran). After graduating he undertook responsibilities as a…
Edward Sumner: paediatric anaesthetist who developed intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital
bmj;373/jun10_6/n1484/FAF1faTed Sumner, who has died aged 80, attributed his successful career to a fall from…
A young man with shortness of breath
A man in his 30s presented to the emergency department with a three week history…
Covid-19: AstraZeneca vaccine linked with small risk of ITP, real world data show
The AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine is associated with a small increased risk of immune thrombocytopenic purpura…
EU drugs agency admits that it misses UK data and expertise
Alexis Goosdeel, director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, has admitted…
Governments should be made to work harder to keep public trust
Trust is at the heart of healthcare—it takes time and care to build but can…
Education, dementia, . . . and other stories
Cognitive reservePeople with high levels of education, demanding occupations, and intellectually active leisure pursuits seem…
Pandemic lessons from India: inappropriate prioritisation for vaccination
We welcome Reddy’s editorial on covid-19 in India,1 but want to emphasise one further issue:…
GPs urged to see all children with respiratory symptoms in person
General practitioners should consider seeing all children under five with respiratory symptoms in person and…
Covid-19: Tests must be more rigorously regulated to protect public, say statisticians
Statistical experts have called for new standards for diagnostic tests in response to regulatory gaps…
Helen Salisbury: Should GPs break the law on data privacy?
NHS Digital plans to extract all data coded in GP held medical records in England,…
David Oliver: The story of covid in care homes—neither mystery nor melodrama
On 26 May, Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s former chief adviser, gave oral evidence to…
Different thyroid assays may greatly affect diagnosis and management of hypothyroidism
Siskind and colleagues do not mention the impact of thyroid assays and reference ranges on…
The curse of the priors when interpreting scans
I used to joke that radiology was getting easier because, as we carried out more…
Anaesthetist training: UK “must double numbers” to combat NHS waiting lists
Anaesthetic training places must be doubled to enable the NHS to deal with the huge…
How to communicate with patients who are D/deaf or have hearing loss
BoxWhat you need to knowAsking, “How can I help you hear and communicate?” ensures that…
Pott’s disease in the atlas and posterior thoracic vertebral plate
This magnetic resonance image shows tuberculosis spondylitis, known as Pott’s disease, in a woman in…
Postoperative low molecular weight heparin bridging treatment for patients at high risk of arterial thromboembolism (PERIOP2): double blind randomised controlled trial
AbstractObjectiveTo determine the efficacy and safety of dalteparin postoperative bridging treatment versus placebo for patients…
Maternity care: CQC imposes sanctions on Sheffield unit over concerns about safety and quality
England’s healthcare regulator has imposed sanctions on a maternity unit in Sheffield after an unannounced…
Covid-19: Aspirin does not improve survival for patients admitted to hospital, trial reports
Aspirin does not improve survival for patients in hospital with covid-19, the UK Recovery trial1…
Staff burnout: MPs demand “total overhaul” of NHS workforce planning
Staff burnout across the NHS and social care in England has reached an “emergency level”…
Rehabilitation after critical illness: how to facilitate a successful return to work
I welcome the recent articles on the need for rehabilitation after critical illness and the…
FDA conditionally approves controversial Alzheimer’s drug despite uncertainty over effectiveness
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved aducanumab (Aduhelm)—a drug which aims to…
Dying at home during the pandemic
Data from the Office for National Statistics show that covid-19 was responsible for most of…
New ways of working will help patients and sustain our profession
Salisbury asks whether additional roles could reduce pressure on general practice and how we can…
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Delirium and long term cognition in critically ill patients
AbstractDelirium, a form of acute brain dysfunction, is very common in the critically ill adult…
Childhood vaccination: Access problems in UK began way before covid-19
As the UK came out of its first lockdown back in July 2020, the World…
Partha Kar: Imposter syndrome is no cause for shame
How much of a problem for doctors is imposter syndrome? Is it just a term…
Accelerating population health improvement
As the covid-19 pandemic shines a bright light on longstanding health equity gaps,1 concerted action…
Surgeon is struck off after failing to tell employers that he was being investigated
A surgeon has been struck off for failing to tell employers that he was being…
Rehabilitation after critical illness—don’t overlook technological and social factors
We support the call from White and colleagues for more expert, multidisciplinary, integrated, and consistent…
Flawed NHS records skew ethnic health data, says study
NHS records too often fail to accurately record the ethnicity of patients in England so…
Ethnic health inequalities: turning evidence into action
A year ago, NHS England announced that an organisation should be established1 to identify and…
Sixty seconds on . . . cough in a box
Sounds like a terrible giftDon’t worry, we’re not talking about wrapping up covid symptoms. This…
Mask related acne (“maskne”) and other facial dermatoses
What you need to knowNot all facial dermatoses related to personal protective equipment are “maskne”Irritant…
SARS-CoV-2 variants in India: a call for genomic surveillance
Thiagarajan asks why there has been a surge of covid-19 in India.1 K Srinath Reddy,…
Covid-19 eradication: stopping transmission between countries
Covid-19 came to our attention at the end of 2019. Since then, it has directly…
John Craig Hay
bmj;373/jun04_10/n1418/FAF1faJohn Craig Hay was a much loved doctor in Uig and Bernera, Isle of Lewis,…
Muriel Davies
bmj;373/jun04_9/n1402/FAF1faMuriel Davies died the age of 86 from old age and exhaustion. The final event…
Rajinder Prasad Bhutiani
It is with our deepest sorrow that our family informs you of the peaceful passing…
Tom McGinley
Born in New York, the eldest son of an itinerant worker, Tom McGinley came to…
Nalliah Sivananthan
bmj;373/jun04_6/n1431/FAF1faNalliah Sivananthan (“Siva”) trained in Sri Lanka and the UK. He was director at the…
Industry-funded medical education is always promotion—an essay by Adriane Fugh-Berman
Many countries require doctors to complete a certain number of hours of continuing medical education…
Dupuytren’s disease
What you need to knowAssess the impact of Dupuytren’s disease on activities of daily living—work,…