Doctors should buckle up for health reforms: Barrette

Health reforms--are doctors onboard or overboard?

Buckle up

Electrically conducting fluids can generate a magnetic dynamo when layers of fluid slide past one another, often at different rates. Known as shear, this is how the Earth and the Sun produce magnetic fields. But exactly how large-scale spatial coherence over the entire surface of the Sun can arise at high magnetic Reynolds numbers, as lines of magnetic field are dragged along by fluid flow, has...

Dialysis or death? Doctors should stop covering up for an inadequate health service.

Doctors who entered the National Health Service to practice medicine now find themselves forced to practise selection. It seems that patients are being lost at GP level. Surely the basis of a good relationship between doctor and patient relies on trust and trust is based on truth which should not be concealed from patients. And should any one dare decide the quality of life for another human be...

Should doctors wear white coats?

OBJECTIVE To compare the views of doctors and patients on whether doctors should wear white coats and to determine what shapes their views. METHODS A questionnaire study of 400 patients and 86 doctors was performed. RESULTS All 86 of the doctors' questionnaires were included in the analysis but only 276 of the patients were able to complete a questionnaire. Significantly more patients (56%)...

Should doctors engage with counterterrorism?

Terrorists’ tactics have changed, and security services have had to change theirs in response. We are seeing fewer highly trained extremists carrying out carefully planned attacks and more lone actions by vulnerable people incited by internet propaganda. Last month’s attacks on Westminster Bridge and in Paris bear this out. But does this mean that doctors should change how they behave? The gove...