Medicine and Science from The BMJ

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March 22, 2019 Is opt-out the best way to increase organ donation?
As England’s presumed consent law for 2020 clears parliament, Veronica English, head of medical ethics and human rights at the BMA, say that evidence from Wales and other countries shows that it could increase transplantation rates. But Blair L Sadler, physician and senior adviser to California State University, consider such legal changes a distraction lacking strong evidence: they say that public education and trained staff would have a proven impact.
We also hear from Erin Walker, the recipient of 2 liver transplants, about her concerns on families over-ruling donor's wishes.
Read the full debate, and Erin's commentary:
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l967
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26min
March 21, 2019 An acutely disturbed person in the community
It can be difficult to know what to do when a person in severe psychological distress presents to a general practice or community clinic, particularly if they are behaving aggressively, or if they are refusing help.
Most patients who are acutely disturbed present no danger to others, however situations can evolve rapidly. Frontline staff need to know how to call for help, how to assess and manage physical risk, and how to de-escalate such situations.
In this podcast Aileen O’Brien, reader in psychiatry and education at St George’s University of London joins us to give some advice on what to do in that situation - why deescalation is useful, and who else to involve.
We also hear from someone who lives with bipolar disorder, and has had experiences of being acutely unwell in a public places, which have lead to police and psychiatric intervention.
Read the full practice article:
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l578
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26min
March 15, 2019 Passing on the secret knowledge of loop diuretics
In every generation there are a few that know the secret; the counterintuitive effects of loop diuretics.
In this podcast Steven Anisman, cardiologist at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, joins us to explain about the threshold effects of these drugs, and why that might change the way in which you think about prescribing them.
Read the full article on treatment of oedema with loop diuretics, and contribute to the discussion: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l359
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27min
March 14, 2019 #talkaboutcomplications
Renza Scibilia and Chris Aldred have diabetes, and their introduction to the idea of complications arising from the condition were terrifying.
Because of this early experience, and Chris's later development of complications, they have campaigned to make doctors really think about the way in which they talk about complications with patients. Challenging the use of "non-compliant" and other stigmatising language.
Chris has also documented his experience of developing an ulcer, and having it successfully treated, on social media, to open up the conversation and make us all #talkaboutcomplications.
Chris Aldred is @grumpy_pumper on twitter, and blogs at http://www.the-grumpy-pumper.com. Renza Scibilia is @RenzaS on twitter and blogs at https://diabetogenic.wordpress.com/
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28min
March 08, 2019 Ebola - Stepping up in Sierre Leone
In 2014, Oliver Johnson was a 28 year old British doctor, working on health policy in Sierre Leone after finishing medical school. Also working in Freetown was Sinead Walsh, then the Irish Ambassador to the country.
Then the biggest outbreak of Ebola on record happened in West Africa, starting in Guinea and quickly spreading to Liberia, Sierre Leone and Nigeria.
Oliver and Sinead have co-authored a book about the change that wrought on their lives, how they stepped into roles coordinating the international response to the disease and running a treatment centre. They join us today to talk about their experiences there.
For more information about Ebola, including the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo visit https://www.bmj.com/ebola.
For Sinead and Oliver's book - Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline is available now.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DFLFF9P/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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31min
March 07, 2019 Signals from the NIHR
If you've been keeping up to day with The BMJ - online on in print, you might have noticed that we've got a new type of article - NIHR Signals - and they are here to give busy clinicians a quick overview of practice changing research that has come out of the UK's National Institute for Health Research.
Tara Lamont, director of the NIHR dissemination centre, joins us to talk a bit more about the research underpinning these articles.
You can find the full list of articles:
https://www.bmj.com/NIHR-signals
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15min
March 06, 2019 Nuffield 2019 - How can the NHS provide a fulfilling lifelong career
More doctors are choosing to retire early, doctors who take career breaks find it hard to return to practice, and doctors at all stages of their careers are frustrated by the lack of support given to training and development in today’s NHS.
Each year the BMJ holds a roundtable discussion at the Nuffield Summit - where health leaders come together to talk about the NHS. We wanted to know what more the NHS can do to provide fulfilling careers for staff and to improve support for doctors who want to keep working and those seeking to return to practice.
Taking part in the discussion were:
Tom Moberly - UK editor for The BMJ
Rahkee Shah - paediatric registrar
Ronny Cheung - consultant general paedatrician
Claire Lemer - consultant paediatrician
Candace Imison - Director of Workforce Strategy at the Nuffield Trust
James Morrow - GP partner
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48min
March 01, 2019 Diabetes Insipidus - the danger of misunderstanding diabetes
Diabetes is synonymous with sugar, but diabetes insipidus, "water diabetes", can't be forgotten. Between 2009 and 2016, 4 people died in hospital in England, when lifesaving treatment for the condition was not given.
In this podcast, we hear some practical tips for non-specialists to aid diagnosis, and how patients should be managed during hospital admission.
On the podcast are
Miles Levy, consultant endocrinologist from Leicester Royal Infirmary
Pat McBride, head of family services at the Pituitary Foundation
John Wass, professor of endocrinology at Oxford University
Malcolm Prentice, consultant endocrinologist at Croydon University Hospital.
Read the full practice article:
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l321
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45min
February 27, 2019 Talk Evidence - Radiation, fertility, and pneumonia
Helen Macdonald and Carl Heneghan are back again talking about what's happened in the world of evidence this month.
They start by talking about how difficult a task it is to find evidence that's definitely practice changing, what GPs can learn from Malawian children with nonsevere fast-breathing pneumonia, how radiation dosage varies substantially - and consultant radiologist Amy Davies what that means for patients.
They also rail against add-on tests for fertility, and the lack of evidence underpinning their use - will the traffic light system suggested help patients make treatment choices.
Carl's rant this week is based on a new study by Steve Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz which documented 20 years of medical marketing in the USA.
Reading list:
Pneumonia in Malawi - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30419120
Variation in radiation dose - https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k4931
Traffic light fertility tests - https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l226
Medical marketing - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2720029
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33min
February 22, 2019 Sorry for the interruption in service
The problem we had publishing our feed has been fixed, and normal service has resumed.
Thank you for subscribing to the podcast, if you have thoughts you'd like to express, we'd love to hear them.
https://www.bmj.com/podcasts
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