One of my favourite poems is “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers , by Emily Dickinson. I discovered it at age 16, when medical school was still a distant dream and my biggest aim was to get through GCSE ...

I’ll always be grateful to the doctor who delivered my first baby: a kind and skilled obstetric registrar able to analyse the situation and undertake a ventouse extraction. I knew that yoga, breathing ...

A row has broken out over a decision by a local medical committee (LMC) to remove a GP from its committee, citing her lack of attendance at its meetings. Clare Sieber, a GP in West Sussex, said she ...

A consultant breast surgeon who took a job with an NHS trust without notifying it that he was under investigation by the General Medical Council for clinical failings, then went on to commit a litany ...

NHS England has announced a pilot scheme to test “more flexible staffing models” in general practice. The move has been criticised by the BMA, which said what was needed was better funding, not new ...

Polypharmacy is common in older adults and is associated with adverse drug events, cognitive and functional impairment, increased healthcare costs, and increased risk of frailty, falls, ...

After the confusion of 2020, WHO has finally changed its definition of how diseases can spread through the air. But what is the new definition—and what needs to happen next? Mun-Keat Looi reports In ...

Israel’s military bombardment and siege of Gaza, we are witnessing the onset of a man made and entirely preventable famine, say Sameer Sah and Khaled Dawas In December 2023, we led Medical Aid for ...

Hristio Boytchev reveals how an ambitious deal between a leading medical education provider and the tobacco industry collapsed this week The medical education provider Medscape has bowed to pressure ...

We need to define the concept of early diagnosis The importance of early diagnosis, particularly in cancer, has been covered widely in the media. Improving early diagnosis rates is a politically ...

Over the past year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has grappled with the largest outbreak of mpox in the past half century. Despite obstacles, an enhanced response to the crisis can provide a ...

A cash injection of £32bn to the NHS might be what The BMJ wants,1 but it is not what England needs. The people of England need The BMJ to work with the Department of Health and Social Care and the ...