Medical school places: balancing quality, clinical need, and supporting students
I welcomed the news that medical school places will remain uncapped for the 2020 entry…
Category: British Medical Journal
Ex-GP climate activist says her new role is as important as being a doctor
A GP turned climate change activist who spent four weeks in prison on remand after…
Covid-19: Government poised to amend regulations to allow use of unlicensed vaccine
The UK government has set out plans to amend drug regulations in case it decides…
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Health promotion is at a crossroads with the demise of Public Health England
We have serious concerns about health promotion after the recent announcement that Public Health England…
Medical school places must be accompanied by more funding
Questions remain as to the practicality of lifting the cap on medical school places from…
Covid-19: Comparing Sweden’s response with the UK’s is “misleading,” experts argue
Sweden’s response to covid-19 should not be used to argue the case for a population…
How can I smoothly transition from trainee to consultant?
“Don’t rush into it”Rebecca Caulfield, specialty trainee year 8 in community paediatrics, Mersey Deanery, says,…
Fostering inclusivity: the consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist
When Steve Smith is teaching registrars how to operate, he tries not to criticise what…
Sixty seconds on . . . covid-19 sniffer dogs
What’s this, another shaggy dog story?Not at all. Canine scent detectors have been working at…
A network for elected women: five minutes with . . . Helena McKeown
“It’s been a year since Daphne Romney’s independent report into sexism and sexual harassment at…
Priadel: Experts urge government to intervene to keep lithium product on market
Clinicians and patients have urged the UK government to intervene to ensure that Priadel, a…
On emotions and clinical judgment
All sorts of emotions can affect one’s judgment. Every day, everyone makes snap judgments of…
Covid-19: App to track close contacts is launched in England and Wales
The government is urging all adults in England and Wales to download the NHS covid-19…
Covid-19: Learn from other countries about easing lockdown, researchers urge
The authors of a new review of international experiences of easing lockdown during the covid-19…
Strengthening the UK primary care response to covid-19
Health services across the world made rapid adjustments to the direct and indirect consequences of…
Covid-19: Diagnosis of common conditions in general practice halved during lockdown, study finds
New diagnoses of mental health conditions, cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes approximately halved in…
Teleconsultations are the best access to general practice some patients have ever had
F Scott Fitzgerald said: “The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to…
GMC should rethink the way it accuses doctors of sexual motivation during intimate examinations, says judge
A High Court judge has suggested that the General Medical Council should rethink the way…
Covid-19: CDC publishes then withdraws information on aerosol transmission
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provoked controversy when it changed information about…
Covid-19: FDA plans strict vaccine approval criteria, angering Trump
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “will not delay, but will not cut corners”…
Plymouth trust is first to be fined for breaching duty of candour rules
An NHS hospital trust has been ordered to pay a total of £12 565 (€13…
Covid-19: The fatal attraction of herd immunity
Scientists are in dispute.1 There is nothing new in this. Debate is to be encouraged—truth…
Balancing the evidence for guidelines: lessons from the NICE abdominal aortic aneurysm guidance—an essay by Bruce Campbell
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recently published a guideline on the diagnosis…
Long lasting hip implants . . . and other stories
Implant survival after total hip replacementAn analysis of a database of hip replacements in England…
UK medical schools fear for quality of student education as funding axe falls
“The sense of a funding crisis in higher education is very significant,” warns Malcolm Reed,…
Central fatness and risk of all cause mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of 72 prospective cohort studies
AbstractObjectiveTo quantify the association of indices of central obesity, including waist circumference, hip circumference, thigh…
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Covid-19: Risk of death more than doubled in people who also had flu, English data show
People infected with both flu and SARS-CoV-2 are more than twice as likely to die…
Photographs that captured lockdown
In May the National Portrait Gallery launched Be Still to create a unique collective portrait…
Mandatory disclosure of financial interests of journals and editors
Transparency of interests (or potential conflicting interests) by editors and authors allows readers to judge…
The BMJ interview: Anthony Fauci on covid-19
There are few better known authorities on the covid-19 pandemic than Anthony Fauci. One of…
Malignant causes of nasal obstruction
This picture (fig 1) shows an extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, nasal type in a…
Academic GP who tried to hide his outside work has suspension extended to 12 months
A professor of general practice who was suspended from the UK medical register last year…
David Oliver: Why polarise healthcare opinions?
Dogma and rigid ideology are rarely helpful in public policy or pragmatic approaches to running…
Covid-19: Government must publish results of pilots of contract tracing app, experts say
Health experts have urged the government to publish the results of pilots of its covid-19…
Telemedicine: unseen unknowns
After reading this article and the many Twitter conversations it sparked, I was glad to…
Flu vaccination programme: could medical students be the answer?
The 2019-20 flu programme vaccinated just over 15 million people. The newly expanded programme opens…
Seymour Schwartz: surgeon, editor, cartographer, and historian
bmj;370/sep23_1/m3706/FAF1faschwartz220920.f1Credit: Carlos Ortiz/Democrat and ChronicleThe name Seymour Schwartz became synonymous with surgery after his five…
Birnie Winchester Duthie
bmj;370/sep22_10/m3661/FAF1faBirnie Winchester Duthie was born in Rosehearty on 12 August 1928 and died from Parkinson’s…
Teleconsultations compromise patient safety and professional satisfaction
The pendulum has swung too far. Before covid there was perhaps too great an emphasis…
Outdoor walking and talking assessment of mental health
Remote consultations were introduced widely in community mental health services in the initial peak of…
Covid-19: New restrictions to curb rising infection rate are set throughout UK
The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has set out new national measures designed to halt…
Covid-19: India’s private doctors and government clash over pandemic response
India’s private medical community has accused government authorities of “indifference” to the plight of doctors…
Peggy Stradling
bmj;370/sep22_11/m3669/FAF1faPeggy Snow met her husband to be (Peter Stradling) at medical school (University College London)…
Isaac Mohamed Nuseibeh
bmj;370/sep22_9/m3666/FAF1faIsaac Mohamed Nuseibeh was born in Hebron, Palestine, and grew up in Jerusalem but had…
Elkan (Chonon) Lewis
bmj;370/sep22_8/m3665/FAF1faElkan Lewis (“Chonon”) was a wise physician and a fine musician. Born in Liverpool, he…
Michael Schachter
bmj;370/sep22_7/m3667/FAF1faMichael Schachter (“Mike”) was born in, Budapest, Hungary, the youngest of three children (he had…
Juliusz Kessling
bmj;370/sep22_6/m3663/FAF1faJuliusz Kessling was born in Warsaw. His first memories were of Nazi tanks in Warsaw….
Patient organisations failed to disclose {pound}14m in drug company payments over four years, study finds
Patient organisations failed to declare over £14m (€15.3m; $18m) in payments from pharmaceutical companies between…
Operation Moonshot proposals are scientifically unsound
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) swab test is useful (but not perfect) for detecting SARS-CoV-2…
Meet the new editorial scholar: Nikki Nabavi
BiographyNikki Nabavi, aged 21, medical student at the University of Manchester, became editorial scholar at…