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 Clinicle—a daily dose of word play from The BMJ  |
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| Test your clinical knowledge with The BMJ?s new word game, Clinicle. Move the horizontal word clues to spell the answer vertically, then share your times on social media with friends and colleagues.The story of ClinicleA welcome relief from the 2022 permacrisis has been the chance to spend a couple of minutes each day trying to guess a five letter word. Wordle became a phenomenon, reported to have over 2 million daily users in January 20221 and was soon snapped up for a reported seven figure sum by the New York Times.2As the Wordle craze crested, an Education article in The BMJ by Hardeep Singh, Denise Connor, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal offered readers five strategies for diagnostic excellence.34 Strategy number two is byte sized learning to ?integrate brief diagnostic challenges from apps, social media, and medical journals into your daily routine.? As the Wordle clones proliferated, from the supercharged Quordle (https://www.quordle.com/#/), to... |
| GP suspended for nine months after promoting vitamins and iodine for covid-19 |
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| A GP in private practice has been suspended from the UK medical register for nine months for promoting dubious treatments, including putting misleading claims about covid-19 online.A medical practitioners tribunal heard that Sarah Myhill posted videos and articles on her website during the pandemic, describing ?safe nutritional interventions? which she said were ?now so well established that vaccination has been rendered irrelevant.?But the tribunal was told that the substances were not universally safe and had potentially serious health risks, and there was no evidence that they were effective.The tribunal found that Myhill, who practises in Powys, promoted and endorsed the use of high doses of vitamins C and D and the inhalation of iodine through a salt pipe for the treatment of bacterial and viral infections including covid. She also promoted the use of ivermectin without articulating the risks and sold an iodine preparation on her website.?These agents risked patient... |
| Five things bothering GPs right now |
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| They can?t get patients to hospital appropriately?putting GPs at riskAn inability to secure appropriate hospital transfer for patients is a common concern among GPs?as is the risk of the decisions they are having to make as a result.Georgie Budd, a trainee GP in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and co-chair of the BMA Welsh Junior Doctors Committee, recently had to call out the air ambulance for a 9 month old patient with respiratory distress for whom a land ambulance could not come quickly enough, she says.Geraint Preest, a GP partner in Pencoed Medical Centre near Bridgend, had a consultation last week with a ?gravely ill patient who needed immediate transfer to the hospital.? He dialled 999 and was given a six to eight hour window of response, ?which was unfortunately way too long a response for this patient,? who then had to be sent to hospital by car. ?Ordinarily he... |
| John Craven |
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| bmj;380/feb03_8/p253/FAF1faMedicine has lost one of its most colourful characters. Having completed his basic surgical training in Manchester in 1960, John Craven and his wife, Pauline, set out to satisfy their intrepid desire to explore the world. Their initial plans to work in Borneo were foiled by wars and insurrections and John went to work with Ian McAdam in Kampala, Uganda. Many memorable moments were exemplified by being escorted at gun point to meet General Idi Amin; they got on well and John thereafter became the doctor to members of Amin?s family.Children?s education took precedence over the offer to stay in Africa. A position with Les Hughes in Cardiff enabled John to develop links with surgeons in Japan and introduce new techniques in the surgery of stomach cancer. He returned to the north as a consultant in York.John is remembered for his sound opinions, a great sense of humour, and his... |
| Industrial action: What’s the current state of play for consultants, ȷunior doctors, and GPs? |
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| Consultants?Leaving the NHS in droves?Consultants in England will be balloted this month by the BMA to see whether they would be prepared to take future industrial action over pay and the ?pensions crisis.?1 The ballot won?t be legally binding, but the results will be used to determine whether a statutory ballot on strike action should go ahead.The BMA estimates that take home pay for the average consultant in England has seen a cut of nearly 35% in real terms since 2008-09. The association warns that thousands of doctors have already reduced their hours or left the NHS after incurring large additional tax bills on their pensions by exceeding the annual or lifetime allowance.It says that the government has ?refused to engage? with it on meaningful negotiations, and it has called for a reform of the Review Body on Doctors? and Dentists? Remuneration (DDRB),2 arguing that ministers have repeatedly interfered with... |
| John Philip Rathbone Hartley |
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| bmj;380/feb03_6/p251/FAF1faJohn Philip Rathbone Hartley?s research into asthma during his higher professional training in south Wales was recognised by the award of the British Thoracic Society prize (for the trainee with the best research in the UK) in 1978. He was appointed consultant in Brighton in 1981. He obtained funding for further research into asthma; and did lengthy terms as lead of the medical directorate and director of medical education. He oversaw the design and construction of a large education centre and was involved with the establishment of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He was the easiest of colleague?hardworking, wise, popular, and had encyclopaedic knowledge. His style was quiet, reflective, analytical, and self effacing, with gentle, dry humour. Leisure interests were fishing and painting. An outstanding clinical teacher, he inspired a generation of physicians, many of whom went on into respiratory medicine. He leaves his wife, Carol; two children; and two... |
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