How did UK medicine get on in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list?
The honours system is like the curate’s egg – good in parts and rotten in others – but people try
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70 Years of the NHS
70 years ago, a woman named Edna was nearing the end of an 18-hour labour, presumably desperate for the ordeal
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Applying to graduate medicine; the useful list of inside tips you really want to know!
Having dedicated hours and hours of the past two years of my life in attempt to gather a collection of
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Do doctors need more training in medical risk?
Every doctor is aware of risk. The risk of doing nothing, the risk of administering the wrong treatment, and even
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When was the word “medicine” first used and what is medicine’s etymology?
“Medicine” comes from the Latin medeor or medicor, verbs meaning to heal or cure. The profession would have been called
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Demoralising ‘junior’ and ‘trainee’ doctor job title should be abolished
The chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies and a group of Oxford academics are calling on the NHS to abolish
Read moreYour weekly BMJ digest – 30/9/17
Did you miss me? I know, I know – I never called, I never wrote. Were you feeling bereft without
Read more7 Amazing Reasons You Should Study Nursing
Nursing is a long-standing profession. Ever since Florence Nightingale and her peers in the 1800s established nurse training schools, nursing
Read moreApplying for Medicine; have I totally lost my marbles or is a doctor just born without them?
“You were made for this”, “I can’t think of anyone else more suited for that job”, “You’re such an all-rounder,
Read moreYour weekly BMJ digest – 13/5/17
We’re feeling ripples from the tumultuous outside world in this week’s BMJ. From the rare/raw steak on its cover, which
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