My hopes for a thriving primary care have been dashed
I found it heartening to read the consensus among leaders in our profession in Whitty…
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Clare Gerada: We need to stop being frightened of the bogeyman
For years I’ve been caring for doctors with mental illness. This has involved numerous interactions…
Organ donation: England will have “opt-out” system from May 2020
England will move to an “opt-out” system of deemed consent for organ donation from May…
Covid-19: surge in cases in Italy and South Korea makes pandemic look more likely
A surge in cases of covid-19 in northern Italy on 24 February heightened fears that…
Algorithm based smartphone apps to assess risk of skin cancer in adults: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies
In this paper by Freeman and colleagues (BMJ 2020;368:m127, doi:10.1136/bmj.m127, published 10 February 2020), the…
Is streaming patients in emergency departments to primary care services effective and safe?
What you need to knowCo-located primary care services have been introduced in emergency departments in…
Marmot 10 years on: austerity has damaged nation’s health, say experts
The UK prime minister must lead a national strategy for reducing health inequalities that have…
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Ian Calder: forensic pathologist who investigated unexplained deaths
bmj;368/feb24_17/m624/FAF1faCredit: James CalderIan Calder investigated some of the most headline grabbing, mysterious, and unexplained deaths…
GP is struck off after he showed no insight into reasons for his suspension
A GP who was suspended from the UK medical register in 2018 over his treatment…
Time to transcend “physical” and “mental” health
The editorial by Whitty and colleagues about the challenge of multimorbidity is both timely and…
Doctors who was struck off for misconduct is restored to the register after changing his ways
A doctor who was struck off the UK medical register in 2013 for misconduct has…
Faeces and vaccines could be the key to tackling antimicrobial resistance
Relying on the discovery of new antibiotics as the main solution to antimicrobial resistance (AMR)…
How can I tackle microaggressions in the workplace?
“It takes courage”Sue Crossland, consultant in acute medicine and president of the Society for Acute…
Pension crisis: 11 medical organisations call on chancellor to find long term solution
The BMA, along with the Royal Colleges of General Practitioners, Surgeons, and Physicians and seven…
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Adrian Bayley Gillham
Consultant psychiatrist (b 1948; q Cambridge/St Mary’s Hospital 1972; MRCP (UK), MRCGP, FRCPsych), died unexpectedly…
Promising new broad spectrum antibiotic compound identified by algorithm
A new broad spectrum antibiotic compound, which appears to be effective against dozens of bacterial…
Sixty seconds on . . . canals
Shouldn’t that be cannulas?Nope—we’re talking about canals, the former waterways of British industry. There are…
Theodore Michael Strouthidis
bmj;368/feb24_5/m662/FAF1faTheodore Michael Strouthidis’s first post after house jobs in Alexandria was as a medical officer…
Annemarie Tupper
bmj;368/feb24_4/m660/FAF1faAnnemarie Tupper (“Mimi”) arrived in England as a Jewish refugee from Vienna in 1938. Alongside…
Adult flatfoot
What you need to know Flatfoot is a deformity associated with the collapse of the…
Philip Turner
bmj;368/feb24_2/m655/FAF1faPhilip Turner (“Phil”) worked as a surgical houseman at Ashford Hospital in Kent, and his…
Junior doctor convicted of dangerous driving in “acutely anxious state” escapes sanction
A junior doctor who was convicted of dangerous driving after he panicked about getting to…
Anthony Kyriacou Antoniou
bmj;368/feb22_1/m656/FAF1faThe death of Anthony Kyriacou Antoniou (“Tony”) on Monday, 2 December 2019, at the age…
Assisted dying: RCGP continues to oppose change in law after polling members
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) will continue to oppose a change in the…
Rules on isolation rooms for suspected covid-19 cases in GP surgeries to be relaxed
GPs seeing patients who might have covid-19 can give them a face mask and ask…
Surgeon who acted as expert witness must pay {pound}88 000 in costs, says ȷudge
A consultant spinal surgeon who acted as an expert witness for a patient suing an…
How to become a neurosurgeon
Neurosurgery involves the assessment, diagnosis, and surgical management of disorders of the nervous system. A…
Dementia drugs should be reimbursed for the sake of responders
I am surprised to hear of the French minister of health’s decision to stop funding…
Specialty training application deadline is extended after Oriel recruitment portal collapses
The deadline for higher specialty training applications has been extended after the application website went…
An unexpected finding on a chest radiograph
A 92 year old man presented with recent onset of productive cough and fever up…
Assisted dying: your vote counts
The BMA is currently polling members on whether it should change its opposition to doctor…
Two subcutaneous nodules on the lower back
This is an image (fig 1) of furuncular cutaneous myiasis, a skin infestation by the…
Brazil strives to replace its More Doctors programme for underserved regions
In September 2018 the residents of São José village, an indigenous settlement in Brazil’s state…
Your results may vary: the imprecision of medical measurements
What you need to knowInherent in every medical measurement is a degree of uncertainty: you…
Problematic PSA . . . and other stories
Prostate specific antigen testingThe problem with prostate specific antigen screening (PSA) is selecting a cut-off…
Deprescribing dementia drugs
Twenty years ago Prescrire International said that the effects of cholinesterase inhibitors were “only moderate…
Children’s health and wellbeing must be prioritised by governments, experts urge
The health and future of every child worldwide is under threat from climate change, ecological…
Patients of a third surgeon who worked at a Spire hospital are recalled over concerns
The private hospital group Spire Healthcare, where the jailed surgeon Ian Paterson performed many of…
Macrolide antibiotics in pregnancy are linked with birth defects, study suggests
Children of mothers who took macrolide antibiotics during early pregnancy have shown an increased risk…
Letter from China: covid-19 on the grapevine, on the internet, and in commerce
Here’s one example of the ideas floating around in China. Radio Free Asia reported that…
Coronaviruses in animals and humans
Coronaviruses have been around for many years and were first discovered in the 1960s. They…
Authors’ reply to Shaffer and colleagues
We appreciate the response from colleagues at the World Health Organization (WHO) to our article…
Hip replacements: do public or private providers do better?
Hip replacements are a pretty successful operation, patients think. Nearly 90% who had one and…
Points based immigration system risks pushing social care sector “over the edge”
Changes to the immigration system could prevent some NHS and social care staff from being…
Raising alcohol tax to fund NHS would benefit poorer households, report claims
If an increase in the UK tax on alcohol went towards funding the NHS poorer…
Covid-19: a puzzle with many missing pieces
By 15 February 2020, 51 800 cases of the novel coronavirus disease (formerly known as…
Maternal and fetal outcomes following exposure to duloxetine in pregnancy: cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the risk of adverse maternal and infant outcomes following in utero exposure to…
What did we learn from Tamiflu?
Governments cannot calm earthquakes, bottle up volcanoes, or hold back tsunamis—they may not even be…
Clinical findings in a group of patients infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) outside of Wuhan, China: retrospective case series
AbstractObjectiveTo study the clinical characteristics of patients in Zhejiang province, China, infected with the 2019…
Clinical findings in a group of patients infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) outside of Wuhan, China: retrospective case series
AbstractObjectiveTo study the clinical characteristics of patients in Zhejiang province, China, infected with the 2019…