Category: Christmas

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the behaviour of common healthcare related objects in a 3 tesla (T) MRI…

A growing body of literature is revealing the problems faced by young men. Roughly one…

Why do some colleagues seem to always have easy shifts, while others face a consistently…

Tokens of festive jollity—parties, decorations, and a communal tin of chocolates—pepper UK hospitals in December.1…

Effective communication between patients and doctors is fundamental to the delivery of patient centered care,…

AbstractObjectivesTo characterise redactions in clinical trials and estimate a time when all protocols are fully…

Standing under a 1000 year old yew tree at dawn, Rachel Cottam sees the birds…

NHS staff need a morale boost. Perhaps a personalised Christmas card to replace the current…

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the association of genetically proxied (using a surrogate biomarker) inhibition of phosphodiesterase 5…

Birdwatching was my lifeline during medical training, a way to avoid the burnout that afflicts…

BiographiesMission control: Sushmita RamanujamRadiology specialty registrar at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.Sushmita has…

Tom Miller loves his commute to the Buxton Medical Practice in Derbyshire. “I travel 11…

I think of medicine as a performing art, although to many people the word “performing”…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine the efficacy and safety of cola in resolving complete oesophageal food bolus impaction.DesignOpen…

Even when physicians focus their work on the care of individual patients, they often see…

It seems that there are more reasons to despair than ever in 2022. However, 40…

bmj;379/dec22_4/o3017/FAF1faMalcolm WillettIt’s not just clinical staff who burn the midnight oil to care for patients….

In 2017 a robot called Xiaoyi—Chinese for little doctor—attempted China’s medical licensing examination.1 In its…

The weeks leading up to Christmas are a magical time for medical research. The impending…

AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the typing skills of healthcare professionals.DesignCross sectional study.SettingTwo large tertiary medical centres in…

Because a physician has possessed himself of an electrocardiograph, a polygraph, an x-ray machine, a…

KEY MESSAGESSpin, hyperbole, meaningless buzzwords, and technocratic jargon have become increasingly common in global health…

Although electronic health records have widely reduced medication errors, and computerised hospital orders are an…

Doctors have been the heroes of action films, disaster movies, and thrillers—think Harrison Ford in…

Transfusion associated graft versus host disease (TaGVHD) is a rare complication of blood transfusion in…

While it is always time to act,1 it can be hard to know where or…

It’s easy to complain about disappointing experiences while receiving healthcare. Indeed, discussion of the ways…

Healthcare has become industrialised. Healthcare organisations have largely responded to rising demand, increased harm, and…

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the ability of The BMJ editors to predict the number of times submitted…

These are extraordinary times. Although the scenes reflected in this year’s Christmas baubles might be…

What you need to knowThe nature and scale of a participant’s personal investment in clinical…

“I, a reasoning being, am capable of deducing truth from a priori causes. You, being…

How to donatePlease give generously to The BMJ’s appeal for 2021-22. Donations can be made…

Christmas has come again, and while we merrily adorn our hallways, perhaps few of us…

AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether artificial intelligence (AI) can generate plausible and engaging titles for potential Christmas…

How would you describe yourself?“I’m a doctor, and I chose that path very early on,…

“Bah humbug! Sending Christmas cards to trial participants does not increase retention.” So conclude Coleman…

AbstractObjectivesTo determine the effectiveness of sending Christmas cards to participants in randomised controlled trials to…

Collaborative working is crucial to providing joined up, high quality care, yet medicine continues to…

Some research found that the risk of gout increased during the winter season1—not then the…

AbstractMost biomedical research is flawed. While existing reporting guidelines (eg, STROBE, CONSORT, STARD) highlight the…

Although it is said that we live on Earth, humanity has spent its brief history…

Challenging, unprecedented, turbulent, extraordinary: this year was the toughest that most health professionals have ever…

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the daily dietary energy intake for me to maintain a constant body weight….

Understanding energy requirements and the factors that influence them are key goals in nutrition research….

What we call ourselves, and how others refer to us, matters. This is perhaps nowhere…

December is a time for reflection, and there is much for us to process from…

Chris Jenner, Carly Szasz, Jacqui MartinSetting up a volunteer-to-patient matching projectWith the onset of lockdown,…

“R numbers,” “flattening the curve”—if you’d asked the public what these terms meant a year…

My working day involves researching how acoustics affect a musician’s performance and thinking about the…