Author: British Medical Journal

Park and colleagues make a compelling point about the need for increased joint working during…

What is this, the Beard Management Journal?Now calm down, we’re not about to start dolling…

Park and colleagues discuss medical responses to a terrorist attack, mentioning the model used by…

A coroner is to write to the UK General Medical Council asking it to reform…

US public health watchdogs have been failing for years in their legal duty to inform…

Recently retired doctors may be asked to return to work as part of the UK’s…

Canada’s government has tabled new legislation that would remove some of the restrictions placed on…

Two days of talks in Glasgow have shown that UK politicians are as far apart…

The covid-19 epidemic is not only viral—it is also digital.1Information spread through social and traditional…

A woman who sued three NHS trusts for negligence for not telling her while she…

Key messagesSpending on clinical negligence is escalating, constituting a major threat to the sustainability of…

bmj;368/feb28_10/m794/FAF1faJohn Wyn Owen approached his death in the same way as his life as director…

bmj;368/feb28_9/m796/FAF1faIain Smith Macdonald was born in Greenock. After graduating, he did national service in North…

bmj;368/feb28_8/m658/FAF1faNicholas Godlee came from a medical lineage: his great uncle, Sir Rickman Godlee, the first…

The fallout from former health secretary Andrew Lansley’s 2012 reorganisation of the NHS in England…

School closures and bans on mass gatherings will need to be considered if there is…

We welcome The BMJ’s thoughtful editorial linking health to the debate on divestment.1 The increasing…

We welcome Howard’s article on how difficult it is for general practitioners to get the…

The health secretary Matt Hancock has vowed to stamp out what he described as the…

Neurosurgeons assess, diagnose, and undertake surgery to treat disorders of the central nervous system, including…

At The BMJ we try to practise what we preach—just as in healthcare, our decisions…

bmj;368/feb27_10/m701/FAF1faJoseph Stoddart (“Joe”), who has died aged 87, was in the 1960s one of the…

bmj;368/feb27_9/m704/FAF1faEuan David Wallace was the son of the eminent dermatologist Hugh Wallace and Nora Wallace…

bmj;368/feb27_8/m699/FAF1faOn 22 December 2019, Mohammad Fahim Siddiqui finally laid down his scalpel. He was born…

As clinical pharmacologists representing a truly generalist specialty, spanning all ages and organs, we welcome…

President Donald Trump described the US response to the covid-19 outbreak as “a tremendous success”…

Sexual difficulties after treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were first reported to regulators…

Austerity does not result in a fair society or healthier lives. The evidence is clear…

N-of-1 trialsWell conducted, randomised clinical trials create the evidence base that informs modern medical practice,…

“What is professionalism, and how do you foster it? I suspect that everyone has a…

This is a radiograph (fig 1) of the spade phalanx sign of acromegaly. The patient…

Key messagesClinical audit and feedback entail reviewing clinical performance against explicit standards and delivering feedback…

We welcome the call from Whitty and colleagues for a coordinated, cross sectoral response to…

Medical admissions are caused by a domino effect of environmental, social, mental, and physical factors,…

I arrived in prison a cocaine addict with a £2000 (€2390; $2580) a week habit….

In September 2019 a newborn baby died after an inmate at HMP Bronzefield, Britain’s largest…

Nearly two thirds of those held in immigration removal centres (IRCs) are released into the…

As a genitourinary physician I was taught about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment during my training,…