Medicine and Science from The BMJ

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March 12, 2018 Unprofessionalism - ”blaming other people, I put that at the top of the impact list”
That’s Jo Shapiro is a surgeon and manager in Brigham and Women’s hospital, she’s also director of the Center for Professionalism and Peer Support, and has written an editorial for The BMJ on tackling unprofessional behaviour.
In this discussion, she and I talked about what she thinks (beyond the illegal) are the most damaging behaviours seen around a hospital, what needs to be done to set up an environment that allows the victims of unprofessional behaviour to speak out about senior members of staff, and how she goes about confronting perpetrators about their behaviour.
Read the full editorial:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1025
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48min
March 08, 2018 Should doctors prescribe acupuncture for pain?
Our latest debate asks, should doctors recommend acupuncture for pain? Asbjørn Hróbjartsson from the Center for Evidence-based Medicine at University of Southern Denmark argues no - evidence show's it's no worse than placebo. Mike Cummings, medical director of the British Medical Acupuncture Society argues yes - that there is evidence of efficacy, and trials haven't been designed to accurately measure that.
We also hear from Kumari Manickasamy, a GP in north London, and someone who used acupuncture to control her pain during pregnancy despite knowing the lack of evidence.
Read the debate and commentary:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k970
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k990
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28min
March 07, 2018 Nuffield Summit 2018 - HR in all policies, how the NHS can become a good employer
In this year's Nuffield Summit round table we're asking, how can the NHS become a good employer?
At the moment, there is a recruitment and retention crisis across the workforce, doctors and nurses are leaving the NHS in droves, rota gaps are prevalent. A recent BMA survey showed that the majority of junior doctors are now planning to take a career break.
So against this backdrop, what can the NHS do to nurture it's employees, and make medicine an exciting proposition for the millennial, and subsequent, generations.
Taking part are:
Fiona Godlee (Chair), editor-in-chief, The BMJ
Candace Imison, director of policy, The Nuffield Trust
Bob Klaber, consultant paediatrician and associate medical director, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Claire Lemer, consultant in general paediatrics and service transformation, Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
Nishma Manek, GP trainee in London, national medical director’s clinical fellow
Clifford Mann, consultant in Emergency Medicine, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, national clinical advisor for NHS England’s Accident and Emergency Improvement Plan
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43min
March 02, 2018 Katherine Cowan - Reaching A Priority
Its now widely agreed that one of the key ways of reducing the current high level of "waste " in biomedical research is to focus it more squarely on addressing the questions that matter to patients - and the people and medical staff that care for them.
In this interview, Tessa Richards - the BMJ's patient partnership editor, talks to Katherine Cowan, independent consultant and a senior advisor the the James Lind Alliance, which has pioneered patient involvement with their research priority setting partnerships.
In this conversation they talk about how these work, the challenge of navigating between different groups with what are often very different views and agendas, and why she thinks healthy debate on divergent views is no bad thing
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28min
March 01, 2018 Should universal distribution of high dose vitamin A to children cease?
Up to $500m a year could be put to better use by stopping ineffective and potentially harmful supplementation programmes in poorer countries, argues John Mason, professor emeritus at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
However Keith West, professor of infant and child nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health disagrees, saying that such programmes have been proved to save millions of lives and should be withdrawn only when robust evidence permits.
Read the full head to head debate:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k927
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18min
February 20, 2018 Fever in the returning traveller
International travel is increasingly common. Between 10% and 42% of travellers to any destination, and 15%-70% of travellers to tropical settings experience ill health, either while abroad or on returning home,
Malaria is the commonest specific diagnosis, accounting for 5%-29% of all individuals presenting to specialist clinic, followed by dengue, enteric fever, and rickettsial infections .
In this podcast Doug Fink specialist registrar, and Victoria Johnston consultant, in infectious diseases at The Hospital for Tropical Diseases join us to discuss diagnosis, and treatment - and why the clinically most interesting diagnosis is rarely the right one.
Read the full practice article:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5773
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32min
February 17, 2018 SDGs - How many lives are at stake?
In a new analysis John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen, from the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, and Gavin Yamey from Duke University, have set out to analyse the potential for lives saved by the goals set in the Sustainable Development Goals
In this conversation I talked to Gavin and John about the numbers, which countries have to accelerate their development to meet those goals - and we also address some of the criticisms of the SDGs - that they’re too wide ranging, that they lack a political dimension, and that they are unrealistic.
Read the full analysis and more on the SDGs:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k373
http://www.bmj.com/content/sustainable-development-goals
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44min
February 15, 2018 ”We don’t really know the impact of these products on our health”: Ultraprocessed food & cancer risk
A study published by The BMJ today reports a possible association between intake of highly processed (“ultra-processed”) food in the diet and cancer.
Ultra-processed foods include packaged baked goods and snacks, fizzy drinks, sugary cereals, ready meals and reconstituted meat products - often containing high levels of sugar, fat, and salt, but lacking in vitamins and fibre. They are thought to account for up to 50% of total daily energy intake in several developed countries.
Mathilde Touvier, senior researcher in nutritional epidemiology and Bernard Srour, pharmacist and PhD Candidate, both at INSERM, join us to discuss what ultra processed foods actually are, why it is they could be leading to cancer, and what their cohort study tells us about that potential risk.
Read the full open access research:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322
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22min
February 08, 2018 How does it feel, to help your patient die?
Sabine Netters is an oncologist in The Netherlands - where assisted dying is legal. There doctors actually administer the drugs to help their patients die (unlike proposed legislation in the UK).
In this moving interview, Sabine explains what was going through her head, the first time she helped her patient die - and how in the subsequent years, the emotional toll hasn't lessened. She explains why she believes that in certain circumstances, euthanasia can be the ultimate caring act.
Read her essay:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k116
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27min
February 08, 2018 The tone of the debate around assisted dying
Bobbie Farsides is professor of clinical and biomedical ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She’s been described as one of the few people that is acceptable to “both sides” of the assisted dying debate.
This week she joins us to talk about the way in which the debate on euthanasia has played out in the UK - and hear why she thinks it’s now time for all individual doctors to make up their own mind, and not let either camp own the argument for them.
Read her commentary on the debate:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k544
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21min

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