Podcast Episodes
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Interviews from the Women deliver conference in Copenhagen.
Donna McCarraher, director of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health at FHI 360…
10 years, 3 months ago
What are they on?
This week, we look at medication reconciliation. Joshua Pevnick, health services researcher and hospital physician at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, LA, US, …
10 years, 3 months ago
The Weekend Effect - what’s (un)knowable, and what next?
We do we know about the weekend effect? As Martin McKee puts it in an editorial on thebmj.com, "almost nothing is clear in this tangled tale" In thi…
10 years, 3 months ago
”Women deliver, and not only babies”
Katja Iversen, CEO of Women Deliver, joins Rebecca Coombes to explain why the UN sustainable development goals are unachievable if we don't empower w…
10 years, 3 months ago
Travellers’ diarrhoea
Travellers’ diarrhoea is one of the most common illnesses in people who travel internationally, and depending on destination affects 20-60% of the mo…
10 years, 3 months ago
”The information we get can be harmfull”; Informed consent is not a panacea
Providing information to enable informed choices about healthcare sounds immediately appealing to most of us. But Minna Johansson, GP trainee and Ph…
10 years, 4 months ago
The science of improvement
Or, the one where Fiona Moss and Don Berwick tells us what they think quality improvement is. Fiona Moss is dean, Royal Society of Medicine, and Don …
10 years, 4 months ago
Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US
Medical error is not included on death certificates or in rankings of cause of death. Martin Makary, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University…
10 years, 4 months ago
Ecigarettes; ”...the risk is 5% of that caused by smoking”
Nicholas Hopkinson, reader in respiratory medicine at Imperial College London, joins us to explain why a new report from the Royal College of Physici…
10 years, 4 months ago
BMJ roundtable: How to fix out of hours care
The BMJ recently held a discussion between experts in the fields of general practice, emergency medicine, and paediatrics about the state of out of h…
10 years, 4 months ago