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Perhaps politicians and health leaders could #sayhellotopatients?
Launer encourages clinicians to acknowledge every patient they pass, making eye contact “if not actually…
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Say hello to patients: patients can encourage introductions
Launer suggests clinicians “cultivate a routine of looking directly at every patient they pass” and…
Helen Salisbury: Continuity and learning from experience
Continuity of care—seeing the same GP over time—reduces the need for emergency care and increases…
Rammya Mathew: We can’t overlook the backdrop as Britain becomes “a sicker nation”
Plans by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to overhaul the sick note system in the…
Health systems and environmental sustainability: updating frameworks for a new era
Healthcare systems around the world have a responsibility to “do no harm” but are responsible…
Taking racism out of clinical guidelines
Health systems continue to grapple with the deeply rooted consequences of systemic racism within healthcare….
Contaminated blood scandal: compensation plans are at risk, campaigners warn
A campaign group representing people affected by the UK infected blood scandal is calling on…
What will it take for a new sanitary revolution in the UK?
Recently the dire state of the UK’s rivers was highlighted once again when rowers in…
Dementia, like any condition, warrants conversations about risks and prevention
Dementia is a condition that is widely misunderstood by many people.1 Admittedly, my knowledge of…
MMR uptake in England quadruples in 2024
The NHS in England has delivered four times as many measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines…
Working alongside senior female doctors could significantly reduce the gender gap in medicine, finds study
The more that female foundation doctors see of senior female doctors during placements, the more…
Disability community feels ignored in Canada’s assisted dying expansion
On 29 February, Canada’s ruling Liberal Party confirmed that a proposed expansion of its medical…
Teaching beyond retirement: the consultant neuroradiologist
Retirement does not mean a doctor has to stop loving medicine or wanting to be…
Quebec man chooses assisted death after emergency department stay leaves him with agonising pressure ulcer
Disability advocates and the family of a tetraplegic patient in Quebec are calling for an…
The drama of psychoanalysis
Henry Miller, the witty and now dead neurologist from Newcastle, said that one of the…
ICBs failing to fairly allocate funding to hospices across the country, MPs told
Integrated care boards (ICBs) in some parts of England are giving hospices 20 times as…
Action demanded on alcohol as deaths hit record levels
Campaigners are calling for action to tackle a worsening public health crisis after new data…
Diabetes UK defends partnership with Slimming World in face of criticism
Diabetes UK is to go ahead with its partnership with the weight loss company Slimming…
When I use a word . . . The languages of medicines—British Approved Names
Vocabularies, lexicons, and glossariesAll languages have vocabularies. The definition of a vocabulary in the Oxford…
US Supreme Court hears arguments on whether states can regulate emergency abortions
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on 24 April that emergency abortions should be…
People in mental health crisis are still being criminalised owing to NHS failures, says report
A “culture of blame shifting and unaccountability” in the NHS has led to the service…
Experts call for school focused support to overhaul children’s mental health services
Badly needed support for children’s mental health in England should be focused on schools with…
Achieving more equitable access to assisted reproduction
Infertility affects one in six people in their lifetime yet remains a neglected global health…
Stop tobacco industry sponsorship of continuing medical education
In a troubling development for tobacco control, Medscape, a continuing education website for health professionals,…
Acute left testicular pain in a child
A 10 year old boy presented to the emergency department with a one day history…
SSRIs and anticoagulants . . . and other stories
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and oral anticoagulantsSSRIs are among the most frequently prescribed antidepressants, at…
The Safety of Rwanda Act: a pointless exercise in performative cruelty
Late on 22 April 2024 the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill cleared its…
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Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in an adult
This chest radiograph (fig 1, left panel) and reconstructed cardiac computed tomography angiography scan (fig…
Clarity in the law is needed to stop physical punishment of children
In England and Northern Ireland, we have a key opportunity to give children the equal…
Doctors can’t fix the alcohol problem by themselves
A decade ago the jurisdiction of England and Wales was on the brink of introducing…
The future health risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes … and other research
Pregnancy: the natural stress testPregnancy and childbirth can be worrying times, and the news that…
Texas anaesthesiologist poisoned IV bags that made patients ill and killed fellow doctor, court finds
An anaesthesiologist in Dallas, Texas, could face a prison sentence of 190 years after he…
Patient centred outcomes should be focus of interventions to sustain independence in older people
Maintenance of function is increasingly important as populations age. In their systematic review and network…
Gaza-Israel conflict: World Medical Association backs BMA’s call for sustainable ceasefire
The World Medical Association (WMA) has called for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza after…
John Launer: Doctors as activists
Doctor activists are in the news. Sarah Benn, a former GP from Birmingham, has had…
Doing more for patients with hearing loss
Durno and Abioye raise important and poignant points in their articles about communicating with deaf…
Peru: 47 year old woman with polymyositis becomes country’s first person to die with medical assistance
On 21 April a woman with a rare and incurable disease became the first person…
Former GP is suspended for five months over protests to end fossil fuel extraction
A former GP and climate activist who spent 32 days in prison for breaching an…
Medicine is designed for righthanded people
The surgeon glared at me. When I asked what I’d done wrong they replied that…
The ever looming shadow of caregiving
Our household doesn’t rely on alarm clocks. Instead, it’s the consistent thumping of my 18…
UK’s Rwanda bill is widely condemned for putting vulnerable people’s health at risk
The medical community, human rights groups, and agencies including the UN and the Council of…
Standardising antenatal analgesia information
Kmietowicz reports that women from poorer backgrounds are less likely to have an epidural during…
Losing NHS doctors early is costing {pound}2.4bn a year, BMA estimates
Urgent action is needed to stem the exodus of doctors from the NHS, which is…
BMA ȷudicial review over cost of government’s pension mistakes is dismissed
The BMA has expressed disappointment at the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a judicial review…
AI triage in general practice will remove the crucial human touch
Mathew discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help triage in general practice.1 Our…
NHS weight loss programme produces moderate benefit, analysis shows
An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it…
Europe is seeing “devastating” rise in health harms from extreme weather events, experts warn
The number of adverse impacts on health related to extreme weather and climate events is…
Helen Salisbury: Sick notes and a national illness service
A common complaint about the NHS is that it’s not so much a health service…
Assessment of diplopia in adults
What you need to knowFor a patient with double vision, differentiating between monocular and binocular…
Argentina’s healthcare is crumbling under its worst ever dengue epidemic and Milei’s presidency
The worst dengue outbreak in the history of the country; a zombie health ministry; hundreds…