Consent during the covid-19 pandemic: surgeons need to think beyond the end of their scalpels now more than ever
The Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations (FSSA) published Developing Safe Surgical Service for the Covid…
The Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations (FSSA) published Developing Safe Surgical Service for the Covid…
It is welcome to see consideration of the economy of wellbeing from at least one…
Beirut, which was due to re-enter lockdown this week to tackle resurgent covid-19, must instead…
bmj;370/aug07_10/m3161/FAF1faMy friend and colleague, Charles Jonathan Mortiboy Poole (“Jon”), was the only son of Leslie…
bmj;370/aug07_9/m3160/FAF1faColin Alban Bryant McLaren was a Mancunian who ventured south to study medicine at Birmingham…
bmj;370/aug07_8/m3159/FAF1faMohammad Azam Khan was born into a farming family in a remote village of Umarzai…
bmj;370/aug07_7/m3162/FAF1faMedicine ran in Joan Patricia Wright’s family, and, like both her parents and sister, she…
What you need to knowThere is little research evidence on best practice for insect bitesInsect…
The medical portfolio is something you will hear about from day 1 of medical school….
While I agree1 that there are many non-clinical parts of our jobs that shielding doctors…
Gerada writes: “Reflection . . . is a process of discovery with outcomes that might…
Perhaps identifying those who are clinically vulnerable has been one of the kindest endeavours this…
Two essential clinical principles have guided my practice as an emergency medicine doctor. First, I…
Covid-19 has caused mental health problems, economic hardship, and lack of trust in national leadership…
Employers should take a proactive approach to normalising the topic of menopause and should spread…
What is behavioural fatigue? Nobody really knows, but it is something we should be acutely…
In April 2019 NHS Improvement announced a national programme to introduce a new medical examiner…
Who could disagree with Roderick and colleagues’ clear and sensible proposals for moving contact tracing…
Taken by surpriseDespite widespread criticism of significance testing, doctors, scientists, and journal editors continue to…
A fit and well man in his 60s presented to the dermatology urgent assessment clinic…
Last week heralded both the government’s latest obesity policy paper for England and the first…
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has exposed fundamental weaknesses in UK society. Some fragile systems, such as…
Obesity is a focus of political and media discussion, since multiple datasets have shown that…
In theory, the UK has a comprehensive notification system, set in statute, whereby all clinically…
I disagree with Khunti and colleagues that the report by Public Health England (PHE) on…
Covid-19Pre-surgery shielding is liftedPatients in England having elective surgery no longer need to self-isolate for…
The successful mitigation of covid-19 in a healthcare setting, as described by Liu and colleagues…
The UK government has urged medicine suppliers to stockpile six weeks’ worth of drugs as…
bmj;370/aug05_12/m3078/FAF1faAgness, a Ugandan midwife, listens to the heartbeat of a fetus in a photograph taken…
A senior coroner has demanded action by Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, to…
The authors are correct in that, normally, a positive anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody result should always…
Do the recent vaccine papers tell us anything new?There was a flurry of excitement last…
The study by Liu and colleagues is impressive—none of the 420 healthcare workers became infected…
Leicester was the first place in the UK to be singled out for a local…
bmj;370/aug05_5/m3091/FAF1faPhoto credit: Tsubara KawasakiNot many physicians have a disease named after them. Tomisaku (“Tomi”) Kawasaki,…
ABSTRACTPulmonary embolism is a common and potentially fatal cardiovascular disorder that must be promptly diagnosed…
When Chris Turner was a house officer near Edinburgh, he had to go to a…
In the paper by Ge and colleagues (BMJ 2020;369:m696, doi:10.1136/bmj.m696, published 1 April 2020), one…
MPs have set out their plans for an independent evaluation process designed to hold the…
I was both excited and disappointed to read Cylus and Smith’s article on the economy…
bmj;370/aug04_5/m3039/FAF1faStella Elizabeth Grace Gibson was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1927 to William Hamilton Gibson,…
The current NHS Test and Trace programme in England must significantly improve if schools are…
The UK government has spent £161m (€178m; $210m) on 5.8 million covid-19 testing kits, which…
On 29 July 2019, the Target Malaria insectary was opened at the Uganda Virus Research…
Around 40% of dementia cases worldwide could have potentially been delayed or prevented if 12…
An analysis of thousands of emails has shown the extent to which Coca-Cola sought to…
bmj;370/aug03_7/m3079/FAF1faAre you tired of hearing about covid-19? I am too. So, here’s a tirade about…
I understand from Habib’s article that Sweden’s decision not to mandate lockdown has been a…
The pandemic friendly greeting?No. We’re talking about the “second wave of the [covid-19] pandemic” that…
Sweden does not have a herd immunity strategy, and it is irresponsible for The BMJ…