What’s the role of a medical leader? needed to head college, association, or health service? Is it about supporting colleagues who experience unprecedented levels abuse and violence from frustrated patients?1 charting clear path revive training affected by pandemic, as Clara Munro argue?2 tackling institutional discrimination, Royal College Surgeons must now do,3 protecting staff wellbeing,4 so...

Shipping, central to the rise of Atlantic economies, was an extremely hazardous activity. Between 1780s and 1820s, a safety revolution occurred that saw shipping losses insurance rates on oceanic routes almost halved thanks steady improvements in shipbuilding navigation. Copper sheathing, iron reinforcing, flush decks were major innovations shipbuilding. Navigation improved, not through chronom...

The rational or commonsense way of removing that terrible curse?" In sorrow thou shall bring forth children "?was solved for me some nine years ago when I read Dr. Lahmann's Natural Hygiene and Dr. Alice B. Stockham's Tokology. Until I had studied these two books I was under the impression that, whilst painless and easy delivery is the rule amongst animals, it rarely occurs in civilised human b...