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Columnists
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Carnitine
Last week I discussed meldonium, which was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in January 2016 for use by sportsmen and women, because it supposedly increases blood flow and […]
Kieran Walsh: Antibiotic resistance—a role for clinical decision support?
There have been concerns about antibiotic resistance for decades. But concerns have grown in recent years as the problem continues to get worse. Various strategies have been used to address […]
Richard Smith: Celebrating progress with creating a sustainable NHS
One of the successes of health workers concerned with climate change has been to get climate change framed as a health issue as well as an environmental issue […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Meldonium
Meldonium is in the news again. It was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in January 2016 for use by sportsmen and women, because it supposedly increases blood flow […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: Let’s talk about the weather
Meteorological metaphors are common in everyday speech: he was lightning fast; you are my sunshine; it’s clear skies from now on. That doesn’t make them common in medical writing, and […]
Daniel Sokol: A database of medical, ethical, or legal cases with valuable lessons for clinicians
When I visited the clinical ethics department at Washington Hospital Center some years back, I was impressed by how acute ethical dilemmas, once resolved, led to presentations in the affected […]
Sharon Roman: My doctors, my placebo effect
An excellent patient-doctor relationship is capable of doing much good, even when medicine no longer can […]
Richard Smith: Spreading innovation in the NHS through social franchising
It is comparatively easy to find funding for the randomised trials that may or may not show the effectiveness of innovations, but much harder to fund scale-up […]
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley: Medical conference emojis—which one are you?
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley have been studying human doctors in their native conference environment […]