Mortality rates are lower with higher continuity of care, review finds
Higher continuity of care is associated with lower mortality rates, while discontinuity can cause patients…
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What will it take for Germany to embrace digital health?
Germans are not fast adopters of digital technology. With a fondness for using cash and…
Covid lockdown: England sees fewer cases of colds, flu, and bronchitis
Cases of common cold, flu, and other respiratory diseases in England are substantially lower than…
Trump’s call for essential drugs to be made in US threatens innovation, says trade group
The trade group for the US pharmaceutical industry has warned that President Donald Trump’s latest…
Distinguishing between type 1 and type 2 diabetes
What you need to knowIn patients with new onset hyperglycaemia where the type of diabetes…
Overseas doctors stranded by cancelled exams can stay in UK without extra visa costs
The Home Office will allow doctors left stranded in the UK by postponed exams to…
Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care
What you need to knowManagement of covid-19 after the first three weeks is currently based…
Trends in excess mortality associated with atrial fibrillation over 45 years (Framingham Heart Study): community based cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo assess temporal trends in the association between newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation and death.DesignCommunity based…
Covid-19 misinformation sparks threats and violence against doctors in Latin America
When the 15 bed clinic managed by Diego Posada started filling in mid-June, he received…
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 economy of wellbeing: a focus on health and wellbeing helps with priority setting
It is welcome to see consideration of the economy of wellbeing from at least one…
Beirut’s battered hospitals struggle in aftermath of explosion
Beirut, which was due to re-enter lockdown this week to tackle resurgent covid-19, must instead…
Charles Jonathan Mortiboy Poole
bmj;370/aug07_10/m3161/FAF1faMy friend and colleague, Charles Jonathan Mortiboy Poole (“Jon”), was the only son of Leslie…
Colin Alban Bryant McLaren
bmj;370/aug07_9/m3160/FAF1faColin Alban Bryant McLaren was a Mancunian who ventured south to study medicine at Birmingham…
Mohammad Azam Khan
bmj;370/aug07_8/m3159/FAF1faMohammad Azam Khan was born into a farming family in a remote village of Umarzai…
Joan Patricia Wright
bmj;370/aug07_7/m3162/FAF1faMedicine ran in Joan Patricia Wright’s family, and, like both her parents and sister, she…
Insect bites
What you need to knowThere is little research evidence on best practice for insect bitesInsect…
Building a portfolio for specialty applications
The medical portfolio is something you will hear about from day 1 of medical school….
Making the most of shielding: let’s not be divided into frontline workers and those who have shielded
While I agree1 that there are many non-clinical parts of our jobs that shielding doctors…
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What to do with appraisal: an idea whose time has come
Gerada writes: “Reflection . . . is a process of discovery with outcomes that might…
Making the most of shielding: covid-19 is exposing the unpaid carers in NHS workforce
Perhaps identifying those who are clinically vulnerable has been one of the kindest endeavours this…
Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic provide a blueprint for the climate emergency
Two essential clinical principles have guided my practice as an emergency medicine doctor. First, I…
Covid-19: Mental health and economic problems are worse in US than in other rich nations
Covid-19 has caused mental health problems, economic hardship, and lack of trust in national leadership…
Breaking the menopause taboo: more must be done to support doctors, says BMA
Employers should take a proactive approach to normalising the topic of menopause and should spread…
Behavioural fatigue: a flawed idea central to a flawed pandemic response
What is behavioural fatigue? Nobody really knows, but it is something we should be acutely…
David Oliver: The medical examiner role could transform our approach to handling death
In April 2019 NHS Improvement announced a national programme to introduce a new medical examiner…
The pandemic is being used as a screen to privatise, fragment, and weaken the NHS
Who could disagree with Roderick and colleagues’ clear and sensible proposals for moving contact tracing…
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The S value . . . and other stories
Taken by surpriseDespite widespread criticism of significance testing, doctors, scientists, and journal editors continue to…
Acute onset rash in a limited distribution
A fit and well man in his 60s presented to the dermatology urgent assessment clinic…
Obese and hungry: two faces of a nation
Last week heralded both the government’s latest obesity policy paper for England and the first…
Covid-19 exposes the UK’s broken food system
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has exposed fundamental weaknesses in UK society. Some fragile systems, such as…
Partha Kar: Our approach to tackling obesity needs rethinking
Obesity is a focus of political and media discussion, since multiple datasets have shown that…
Effective notification systems should be streamlined for the pandemic, not discarded
In theory, the UK has a comprehensive notification system, set in statute, whereby all clinically…
Covid-19 and ethnic minorities: the Public Health England report distracts from proactive and timely intervention
I disagree with Khunti and colleagues that the report by Public Health England (PHE) on…
Seven days in medicine: 29 July to 4 August 2020
Covid-19Pre-surgery shielding is liftedPatients in England having elective surgery no longer need to self-isolate for…
Covid-19: care homes show the failures in UK’s response
The successful mitigation of covid-19 in a healthcare setting, as described by Liu and colleagues…
Drug suppliers are told to replenish stockpiles for Brexit and further pandemic this winter
The UK government has urged medicine suppliers to stockpile six weeks’ worth of drugs as…
World’s cameras focus on health
bmj;370/aug05_12/m3078/FAF1faAgness, a Ugandan midwife, listens to the heartbeat of a fetus in a photograph taken…
Coroner warns about poor drug reviews after patient dies from tramadol overdose
A senior coroner has demanded action by Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, to…
Avoiding duodenal biopsy in investigating coeliac disease during covid-19
The authors are correct in that, normally, a positive anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody result should always…
Covid-19: Where are we on immunity and vaccines?
Do the recent vaccine papers tell us anything new?There was a flurry of excitement last…
UK should consider a more cautious approach to PPE
The study by Liu and colleagues is impressive—none of the 420 healthcare workers became infected…
Leicester lockdown: could better data have prevented it?
Leicester was the first place in the UK to be singled out for a local…
Tomisaku Kawasaki: identified and named Kawasaki disease
bmj;370/aug05_5/m3091/FAF1faPhoto credit: Tsubara KawasakiNot many physicians have a disease named after them. Tomisaku (“Tomi”) Kawasaki,…
Pulmonary embolism: update on management and controversies
ABSTRACTPulmonary embolism is a common and potentially fatal cardiovascular disorder that must be promptly diagnosed…
How hierarchical communication “rules” hamper doctor training and patient care
When Chris Turner was a house officer near Edinburgh, he had to go to a…
Comparison of dietary macronutrient patterns of 14 popular named dietary programmes for weight and cardiovascular risk factor reduction in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials
In the paper by Ge and colleagues (BMJ 2020;369:m696, doi:10.1136/bmj.m696, published 1 April 2020), one…
Government to get CQC-style ratings for its performance on health and social care
MPs have set out their plans for an independent evaluation process designed to hold the…
Planetary health underpins an economy of wellbeing
I was both excited and disappointed to read Cylus and Smith’s article on the economy…
Stella Gibson
bmj;370/aug04_5/m3039/FAF1faStella Elizabeth Grace Gibson was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in 1927 to William Hamilton Gibson,…