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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 13 February 2012</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[JAMA  8 Feb 2012  Vol 307
565   There are signs that JAMA is gradually improving under its new editor, although moving its perspective pieces to the beginning of the journal doesn’t really count as progress. The BMJ has also tinkered with its order of contents, almost as if to hide the fact that...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>BMJ covers get everywhere: Excessive crying in infants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BMJ covers get everywhere: Cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Juliet Dobson: Freedom of the press v privacy rights. Is it time for parliament to draw the line?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press freedom]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The seventh UCL/Bindmans Debate on 8 February tackled the question of press privacy. Should parliament regulate the press? One side of the argument is that freedom of expression is too important to be regulated. But on the other hand, is the press now too immoral to regulate itself?
Tessa Jowell,...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Chris Naylor: Effective chronic care means recognising the importance of mental health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[King's fund]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The interaction between physical and mental health has been attracting increasing attention across the political spectrum. Last year, the government recognised the importance of the issue with its mental health strategy &#8220;No health without mental health.&#8221; And more recently, Andy Burnham...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Desmond O’Neill: Old ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[old age]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The year has barely started, but it is a fairly safe bet that one of the stand-out albums of 2012 will be Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas. For the many (including me!) allergic to the bedsit misery of his early work, there is reassurance about what old age can bring us in the drollery, bite, and [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Muir Gray: Bye bye A&amp;E, hello SFS</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Qz73iYggD8E/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/09/muir-gray-bye-bye-ae-hello-sfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Muir Gray]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reality is created by the language we use. Language creates reality rather than describing it; that is the consistent message from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and John R Searle. If we want to change reality one way is to change the language used, and for this reason we ban, or try to...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: A proposal that could be implemented today and save 5000 lives</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/OQGJRFzosdM/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a brainwave. It&#8217;s a proposal that could be implemented today and save the UK 5000 lives a year (at a rough guess.) The proposal is to stop all escalators immediately.
I must confess that my brainwave, brilliant and simple as it is, has ignoble origins. Living in London and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Annabel Ferriman: Will Cameron face warfare in the new Jerusalem?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/3wy531MpMmk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/08/annabel-ferriman-will-cameron-face-warfare-in-the-new-jerusalem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS reform]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Poor Mr Cameron. Up till now, he must have thought that if only the Health and Social Care Bill survives the House of Lords and its return to the Commons, everything will be all right. Then, when it gets the Royal Assent, the sceptics will see the light, hail Andrew Lansley as the new Bevan, [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: An open letter to creative friends</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/BOvs9uLGEbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear creative friends,
Might you be interested to try and depict in some way—in a novel, play, series of poems, popular book, or whatever—a sustainable and believable world and how we might get there?
I ask because us scientists (I hesitate to call myself a scientist but will for now) are extremely...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Nell Crowden: What’s bad for the climate is bad for health</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/_OwLol_i7b4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/07/nell-crowden-what%e2%80%99s-bad-for-the-climate-is-bad-for-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“Perverting the course of evidence-based policy on climate change adaptation and mitigation damages our health resilience, our economic prosperity, and our environmental stability.” (Transparency needed on donors to climate sceptic lobby, Guardian, 26.1.12)
Recently there was a freedom of...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Helen Macdonald: Dunce hat until April</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/ORYU9tT93t8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/06/helen-macdonald-dunce-hat-until-april/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Junior doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical training]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Out with pacey surgical ward rounds; pain controlled, E+D, BO, OE – alert, obs stable, neurovascularly in tact, plan &#8211; drain out, fluids down, OT/PT, home when safe, OP 6/52. Out with debates about thromboprophylaxis, clotting and bleeding. Out with preadmission clinics. Out with being the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 February 2012</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/7DT59GTt_40/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/06/richard-lehmans-journal-review-6-february-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Lehman's weekly review of medical journals]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[JAMA  1 Feb 2012  Vol 307
467    We of a physicianly disposition may not like to admit it, but throughout history surgeons have been well ahead of physicians at looking critically at their outcomes. For example, rates of re-operation have appeared in case series reports for well over a hundred...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: Stress, morale, and compassion fatigue</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/eSmSJP1_KiQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/03/domhnall-macauley-stress-morale-and-compassion-fatigue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[burnout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exhaustion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overwork]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Another part time middle aged GP. Another almost apologetic explanation. Another slightly embarrassed colleague. Why is it that so many GPs in their prime seem to be going part time, retiring, or changing direction? This was a generation who selected general practice as their first choice career....<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Rachel ter Horst: The tomorrow of neglected tropical diseases</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/LBwL8hKNXP8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/01/rachel-ter-horst-the-tomorrow-of-neglected-tropical-diseases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global health]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Four acts in 90 minutes. A tight script that does not leave time for clapping. Nine men in dark suits and one woman on stage. That one woman is Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO. One of the men is Bill Gates. The stage is Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), an event [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Peter Lapsley: I know my place</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/8uEsWEFPy44/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/01/peter-lapsley-i-know-my-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Lapsley]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hraztan Jebejian is an Armenian doctor, and a very good one. He studied hard, keeps his CPD up-to-date, ensuring that he is fully abreast of developments in his speciality, is utterly reliable, and much in demand. He works very hard and makes a good living. 
He is the physician who resolves the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>COMET team: BRAVO for breast reconstruction</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/t1_BNM-bMDE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/02/01/comet-team-bravo-for-breast-reconstruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Women considering breast reconstruction after mastectomy for cancer face a myriad of choices.  They need to decide if and when to have a reconstruction and which of the different procedures best suits their needs.  To facilitate such complex and personal choices, women require information about...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: Are you a sports and exercise medicine award winner?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/rpeQlDrF-S8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BMJ Group awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Olympic medals may be presented to individuals—but no one achieves greatness alone. Behind every great sporting success is a team of coaches and support staff that includes doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists, psychologists, and a range of other experts.
While Olympic greatness is the pinnacle...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Death festival, day three</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;m up early and off to the death festival for the third day with a very light heart, and we are straight into practicalities.
Affordable funerals
A funeral, says Rosie Inman-Cook, director of the Natural Death Centre,  is the “ultimate stress purchase.” People are often stunned and wholly...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tiago Villanueva: Do young Portuguese doctors still want to work in Portugal?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/cIyuawDQ94s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[About 10 months ago I blogged that an exodus of doctors from Portugal would be a sign of Portugal&#8217;s worsening economic situation. Medicine has always offered one of the few stable and prosperous careers. Most doctors are still in employment, and our income levels are usually above the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Martin McShane: Tipping point</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/h1VKYWhTvh4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The announcement last week of the design of the NHS Commissioning Board is critically important. It signals the end of the prolonged period of ambiguity which managers have experienced since the white paper was published in July 2010. For those who have been through the round robins of previous...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Deborah Cohen: “Poisonous” hip implants</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Dq-IxSMVTI0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[hip implants]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“Poisonous hip implants &#8216;putting thousands of British patients at risk&#8217; as medical watchdog launches investigation,” a Daily Mail headline announced today.
It followed on from a front page splash in the Sunday Telegraph which claimed that “metal-on-metal” hip devices are “even more...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Death festival: day two</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The second day of the festival began with Jude Kelly, the artistic director of the Southbank Centre, explaining that the festival is about “reshaping our ability to look death in the eye, and to have a relaxed way of talking about death.” In a secular age, she says, we don&#8217;t have ways of...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Death festival: day one</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Southbank Centre, London’s art centre on the South Bank of the Thames, is holding a festival of death. The aim is “to look death in the eye…to confront mortality head-on through music, theatre, literature, and debate.”
Learning about death from New Orleans and Mexico
As I arrive on Friday...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 30 January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[JAMA  25 Jan 2012  Vol 307
373   Here’s the kind of study that’s all too rare in the medical literature: an important interventional trial that is not funded by pharma. The question is whether giving a proton pump inhibitor can improve outcomes in poorly controlled childhood asthma: a reasonable...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Research highlights – 27 January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Research highlights&#8221; is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles.

Does treatment with GLP-1R agonists lead to weight loss...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Deborah Cohen: Roche responds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s worrying  that the quest to evaluate the evidence underpinning major public health decisions feels like a game of chess—how do you try to anticipate the next move of your opponent and how might they bide their time to stay in the game.
And so the next instalment of what can only be dubbed the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: What has feminism done for global health?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Lancet, the leading journal for global health, has mentioned feminism only twice in its 189 years . The BMJ hasn&#8217;t mentioned it at all. So that looks like some evidence that feminism has had no impact on global health, but all three speakers at a meeting at the London School of Hygiene...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Anne Gulland: No news is bad news: how the papers filled their health pages over Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The period between Christmas and 1 January is a quiet one for UK news outlets. The government and most major organisations hold back big announcements until the new year; and if there are no breaking stories about murders, natural disasters, or wars, filling those (albeit diminished) news pages and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Andrew Burd on hot potatoes in Hong Kong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There is no doubt that Hong Kong is going through an identity crisis. Those who have had teenage children will appreciate the mood swings and the irrational emotionality of the conflicted child; anxious to grow up but reluctant to face the reality of adulthood. I came to Hong Kong two years after...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Edward Davies: Hysteria. There, I said it.</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/KM09Fb4jRp0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/25/edward-davies-hysteria-there-i-said-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=14286</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Oh, behave. I got some grief for saying on a previous blog that some of the criticism of health reform was a bit “hysterical.” I felt a little chastened. I now feel utterly justified.
I just did a Google search for &#8220;NHS Arab Spring&#8221; which gave me almost 1,000,000 results. I saw the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: On the rocks</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/fE27DM2Uea0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/25/domhnall-macauley-on-the-rocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The captain made a mistake. We don’t know why; misjudgement, show boating, foolishness. After hitting the rocks, he seemed to ignore the consequences, delaying action, almost pretending it didn’t happen, and leaving people fend for themselves. Master of a recently built vessel of such scale, he was...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Toby Hillman: Why do doctors get involved in leadership?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/TlfLeX1SVTk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/24/toby-hillman-why-do-doctors-get-involved-in-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There can be a lot of disagreement when it comes to healthcare management and leadership. There are competing views about how far all doctors can be trained to be leaders, and how much impact leadership training can have on clinical outcomes.
There are some studies and reports which suggest that...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Muir Gray: How doctors working in systems could rescue healthcare</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/pd4i8nsw6Sg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/24/muir-gray-how-doctors-working-in-systems-could-rescue-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Muir Gray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US healthcare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=14249</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;We have nothing as bad as America’s worst, and nothing as good as America’s best,&#8221; wise words said to me by someone many years ago, and this principle has stood the test of time. There are certainly many dreadful things in American healthcare, but there are also wonderful services and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Elena Hazelgrove-Planel: Applying for a job as a junior doctor in France</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Rogn5SA0HeQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/23/elena-hazelgrove-planel-applying-for-a-job-as-a-junior-doctor-in-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=13942</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[27 October 2010—sitting in a plane taking off from Paris, flicking through the Lonely Planet to Guadeloupe that I had just bought at the airport, I cast my mind over the events of the last year leading me to this departure for a six month post in the French Caribbean&#8230;
Keen to build on a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Anita Jolly on the BMJ Group Awards clinical commissioning team of the year</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/4zKDjQsnEgE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/23/anita-jolly-on-the-bmj-group-awards-clinical-commissioning-team-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BMJ Group awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CCGs]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Clinical commissioning team of the year: embracing change to deliver patient care
Should it become law later this year, the proposed Health and Social Care Bill will result in significant changes to the way the majority of healthcare services are commissioned in England.  Although controversial in...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Thoughts on a shoeshining</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the experiences that has made me think the most in the past week was having my shoes shined in Queretaro, Mexico. It was the lavish care, almost love, that the shoeshiner put into his task that made me think.
I was seated in a high, metal chair in bright sunshine in one of the [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 23 January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[JAMA  18 Jan 2012  Vol 307
265     Cangrelor is one of a number of reversible thienopyridine platelet inhibitors competing to replace clopidogrel. This could be an enormous market, but the BRIDGE study, funded by The Medicines Company, begins with a small niche: patients who discontinue...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Hannah Bass on healthtalkonline.org</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Junior doctors]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The award-winning experiential health website, healthtalkonline.org, launched a new section devoted to carers of people with a terminal illness on Wednesday. The website’s real life stories are proving a valuable resource not only to patients but also to health professionals.
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		<title>Research highlights – 20 January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Research highlights&#8221; is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles.


Does training and support of traditional birth...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Kerr: TV dinners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Almost every home in the country has one and unlike the background population they have tended to become slimmer and slimmer over recent years. The television set has managed to hold onto its place as the epicentre of home entertainment, despite the assault from the personal computer and the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Warriner: Depression in sport</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ex-England and Lancashire cricketer Andrew “Freddy” Flintoff presented a candid and insightful documentary on depression and professional sport, titled “The hidden side of sport,” which was shown on BBC One on 11 January. He met with other famous sportsmen, all of who had been affected by...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: The 20 foot fence between the rich and poor worlds</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/SiduVkLFYgc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/19/richard-smith-the-20-foot-fence-between-the-rich-and-poor-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’m standing looking at a twenty foot high fence that at night is lit as brightly as daylight. It snakes away over dry hills to both east and west like a vulgar, modern version of the Great Wall of China. I’m in Nogales, a town in both Arizona and Mexico that is sliced in half [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: Who stole health</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/2mSrEZ0Mc9k/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/19/domhnall-macauley-who-stole-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wellness]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Who stole health. I used to think it was something to do with medicine. As a straight laced, card carrying, GMC registered proper doctor, perhaps I should relax, chill, and discover my inner calm. The  health industry has less and less to do with medicine— everyone wants a piece of the action. The...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tracey Koehlmoos: Martin Luther King day and health inequalities in the US</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Fam6yGcIMtc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/17/tracey-koehlmoos-martin-luther-king-day-and-health-inequalities-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tracey Koehlmoos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=14093</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Martin Luther King day provides an opportunity to reflect on the civil rights movement as well as the broader issue of inequalities that face every nation. Because King’s “I have a dream” speech is so ubiquitously placed in two generations of middle and high school education, it is hard for many...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tony Waterston: Rain and refugees in Ramallah</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/5amjFYh1xzA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/17/tony-waterston-rain-and-refugees-in-ramallah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tony Waterston]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In Ramallah in January, the talk is only of delight over the much needed heavy rain, even though it comes with biting cold and a strong mountain wind. For British visitors leaving  the warmest autumn in decades it is a shock and in the auditorium for the graduation even the speakers wore overcoat...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Marge Berer: The breast implant fiasco: a scandal of private medicine</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/H5RHn12A5E8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/17/marge-berer-the-breast-implant-fiasco-a-scandal-of-private-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So, the silicone&#8217;s hit the fan.
The use of industrial-grade silicone intended for mattresses, the possible fraud in hiding information from inspectors at production stage, and the failure in quality control in the regulatory phase, are particularly outrageous. However, the rapidly expanding...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Liz Wager: Do we need to rethink our approaches to research misconduct and research integrity?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/inNUWg5Gqe8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/01/16/liz-wager-do-we-need-to-rethink-our-approaches-to-research-misconduct-and-research-integrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Liz Wager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research misconduct]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday I took part in a joint BMJ/COPE meeting on research misconduct. The discussion set me thinking about factors that create and sustain healthy research environments.
When we talk about misconduct, we often think of the cases that hit the headlines (such as Hwang Woo-suk or Scott Reuben). If...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Martin McShane: Incentives to transform primary care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was fortunate to be able to listen to Danna Safran from Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts at a recent King’s Fund conference. She was talking about the alternative quality contract (AQC). Double digit inflation in healthcare costs and a mandate for every individual to have insurance...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 16 January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[JAMA  11 Jan 2012  Vol 307
157    There&#8217;s a general feeling among cardiologists that low potasssium is a bad thing, but this interesting observational study of 38 689 patients with acute myocardial infarction shows that a high potassium can be even worse. On admission with AMI, potassium...<div class="feedflare">
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