How Shall We Deal With the Wounded in a Naval War?

"How then shall we live?".

This address did not originate in my neocortex, but in a deeper region of my brain, the one responsible for signaling a sense of warning. The sense I have is that a subtle, distinct change is occurring around me that is not quite right. This sense eventually grew into the perception that society, in general, and medicine, in particular, are devaluing the ideals of service and sacrifice. I did n...

How Do We Deal with Research Misconduct?

The diabetes dilemma: how do we deal with it?

STI services in the United Kingdom: how shall we cope?

G enitourinary medicine (GUM) services are consistently overstretched. 2 At St Thomas’ Hospital, and at our neighbour Kings College Hospital, the GUM service runs as an open access clinic (seeing the majority of patients without an appointment). The time to be seen in these clinics is frequently more than 3 hours and 4.5 hours, respectively. This is in the context of a local and national increa...

how should we deal with the barrage of new infertility treatments and innovative technologies?

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