Primary health care: Now more than ever

Global Health: It Matters Now More Than Ever.

As the recent Ebola epidemic demonstrated, the world is not only smaller than ever, but it is also more intricately connected. Exotic diseases once confined to the third or developing world are now everyone's concern. Global has truly become local. Having some knowledge of and com-petencies in global health is not only relevant , but also essential, for every family physician. Many family physi...

Now more than ever, nurses need resilience.

I have been heartened over recent weeks by the many nurses and healthcare staff who have led the care of those caught up in the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, as well as the catastrophic fire in London's Grenfell Tower.

Replication: Needed Now More Than Ever.

Health care reform in the United States: radical surgery needed now more than ever.

It is often claimed that American health care provides good medical care, but the system through which that care is financed is falling apart. In 1994, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare reported that the American health care system was in such turmoil, that it needed radical surgery. Health care in the United States is different from other countries. Hea...

Training in ERCP: a multifaceted enterprise now more than ever

Dear Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by Frost et al. examining whether trainee involvement in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is detrimental to cannulation success [1]. ERCP training has evolved considerably over the last 15 years, and the definition of competency in ERCP has expanded well beyond the ability to cannulate a duct of interest to incorpo...