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Nicholas Priestly
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After doing house jobs in Leeds, Nicholas Priestly came to Westcliff in 1966. He joined with his two future partners to form a new group practice in one centralised surgery. He and...
DSM-5: a fatal diagnosis?
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It isn’t every day that a new medical handbook attracts as much media attention as the latest blockbuster novel by a world famous author. But the controversy surrounding the ...
Matthew Walter John Boyd
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After graduating Matthew Walter John Boyd enlisted in the army and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served in India, Burma, and French Indochina, finally returning to civili...
Too many labels
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“Is that really the right title?” asked a colleague at a recent editorial meeting, spotting this week’s Personal View on the list of forthcoming articles. See wha...
Gordon Evison
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After house appointments in Manchester, Gordon Evison worked in internal medicine in hospitals in Montreal and Vancouver before returning to train in radiology in Edinburgh and Bri...
Alexander Iain Munro Glen
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Alexander Iain Munro was born in Govan and followed his father to study medicine at Glasgow University, where he met Evelyne Fisher, his future wife. Iain spent his national servic...
Derrick Dexter
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Derrick Dexter was born to a poor, working class family in a south Yorkshire mining town. He worked hard at school, gaining a place at medical school at Sheffield University, where...
Emanuel Tuckman
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Emanuel Tuckman (“Manny”) was released from military service when he volunteered civilian medical relief with Friends Service Unit and United Nations Relief and Rehabil...
GPs' out of hours arrangements are not to blame for pressure on emergency departments, MPs hear
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Growing pressure on hospitals’ accident and emergency departments in England have not been directly caused by GPs’ arrangements for out of hours care, experts have told...
John T D Attenborough
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Having qualified at the age of 22, John T D Attenborough joined the army in 1943. He served in the Middle East, Italy, Holland, Germany, and finally, as staff surgeon, in Peshawar,...
Parastomal hernia and stoma granuloma
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bmj;346/may22_18/f3178/FIG1F1fig1This 84 year old woman had a sigmoid adenocarcinoma resected by an emergency Hartmann’s procedure in 2006, after which she developed a large ...
Energy imbalance in obesity is not "&jnodot;ust a hypothesis"
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Taubes does not believe that obesity is related to energy imbalance—he says that is “just a hypothesis” because it depends on evidence that is “substandard ...
Computed tomography in childhood and adolescence is associated with small increased risk of cancer
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Computed tomography in children and young people has a small but significant effect on their risk of developing cancer, a large population based study has found.Overall the study f...
NHS cash props up private health sector as recession cuts private patients' spending
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Private healthcare providers carried out significantly more NHS funded work between 2006 and 2012 than during previous years, while demand for privately funded care fell, a detaile...
Post-traumatic stress disorder after intensive care
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Endless days and nights filled with strange broken sleep. A sea of fragmented menacing faces and shadows swimming through erratic beeps and bells. A large cackling face floating ov...
Social networks, social media, and social diseases
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Social processes underpin everything from our lifestyle choices, our health decisions, to the way healthcare is conceived and delivered. Social media—information tools that b...
Assessment and initial management of feverish illness in children younger than 5 years: summary of updated NICE guidance
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Among children presenting with fever, especially in a primary care setting, serious illness is uncommon. The prevalence of serious illness has been reported at 0.8% in primary care...
Nicholson to step down as chief executive of NHS England
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David Nicholson, the chief executive of the NHS in England, has announced his intention to step down by March 2014 at the latest, when he will have completed seven and a half years...
Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy and the question of who owns our genes
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“Today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action,” the Oscar winning Hollywo...
Coronal T2 weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the hip
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Identify the structures labelled A-F in this coronal T2 weighted magnetic resonance image of the right hip.bmj;346/may22_16/f2835/FIG1F1fig1A: AcetabulumB: Gluteus minimusC: Greate...
Recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder: summary of NICE guidance
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Social anxiety disorder is one of the most persistent and common of the anxiety disorders, with lifetime prevalence rates in Europe of 6.7% (range 3.9-13.7%).1 It often coexists wi...
Is the GMC one of the untouchables?
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My experience of the General Medical Council is similar to that of Wilmshurst.1 I forwarded the GMC several hundred pages of evidence of at least 20, very serious, acts of gross pr...
Author's reply to Cottrell
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Cottrell cites a World Sugar Research Organisation report claiming that world consumption of caloric sweeteners (such as sucrose and high fructose corn syrup) has been static for d...
[Correspondence] Maternal health post-2015 – Authors' reply
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A note of appreciation to Jim Campbell and colleagues for recognising the error in the manifesto published as a result of the Global Maternal Health Conference held on Jan 15&ndash...
[Editorial] GAVI injects new life into HPV vaccine rollout
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The news had been long awaited. Since their approval, health experts and campaigners, including The Lancet, have called for the vaccines against the human papillomaviruses (HPV) th...
[Comment] Shared commitment to women's health abroad and at home
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When we consider global health issues, we often group nations and regions by categories such as developed or developing. Although these categorisations are useful in particular cir...
[Comment] Meeting the unmet need for family planning: now is the time
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The rebirth of family planning is well underway and could not be more important or timely, as countries worldwide work towards implementation of international human rights agreemen...
[Comment] Aid for reproductive health: progress and challenges
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As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, MDG 5—to reduce maternal mortality and achieve universal access to reproductive health—has ...
[Correspondence] Maternal death reviews
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We are concerned that the new overarching Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) programme, could have an adverse effect on current and future Maternal Death Reviews (MDRs...
[Comment] Obstetric fistula: ending the health and human rights tragedy
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More than 2 million girls and women in developing countries are living with obstetric fistula, a condition that has been virtually eliminated in the industrialised world. Obstetric...