PMCID: PMC3287289
PMID: 22167776
doi:10.1136/bmj.a240
PMCID: PMC2427107
PMID: 18556319
doi:10.1136/bmj.39540.565208.AD
PMCID: PMC2292279
PMID: 18403542
doi:10.1136/bmj.39280.457350.BE
PMCID: PMC1952505
PMID: 17717367
doi:10.1136/bmj.39279.642836.80
PMCID: PMC1934435
doi:10.1136/bmj.39279.588507.80
PMCID: PMC1934468
doi:10.1136/bmj.39280.407975.BE
PMCID: PMC1934476
doi:10.1136/bmj.39190.579236.AD
PMCID: PMC1871750
PMID: 17510155
Daniel K Sokol argues that on rare occasions benignly deceiving patients can be morally acceptable, and he has devised a decision checklist to help doctors facing such a dilemma
doi:10.1136/bmj.39184.419826.80
PMCID: PMC1867874
PMID: 17494019
doi:10.1136/bmj.c1373
PMCID: PMC2839083
PMID: 20231248
doi:10.1136/bmj.b3233
PMCID: PMC2731835
PMID: 19706935
doi:10.1136/bmj.39490.520046.25
PMCID: PMC2265324
PMID: 18325965
doi:10.1136/bmj.39260.482616.DE
PMCID: PMC1910646
PMID: 17615223
doi:10.1136/bmj.39161.587720.BE
PMCID: PMC1847886
PMID: 17383984
Although some aspects of the NHS care record service have a broad consensus agreement, issues of consent and security are dividing health professionals, the public, and the national programme for information technology. Nigel Watson believes his experience of opting out shows it to be the most workable option, but John Halamka uses a US model to argue that opting in is the only way to ensure confidentiality
PMCID: PMC1494772
PMID: 16809714
The government is committed to improved access to psychological therapy. How big an expansion is necessary to meet the NICE guidelines on depression and anxiety, and how should it be organised?
PMCID: PMC1450056
PMID: 16644834
The quality and outcomes framework will soon reward primary care doctors who screen for depression in England and Wales. This article scrutinises the rationale and evidence to support such screening
PMCID: PMC1450055
PMID: 16644833
The benefits and harms of screening for breast cancer are delicately balanced and women should decide for themselves, on an informed basis. Do the invitations give enough information to enable this?
PMCID: PMC1388137
PMID: 16513713
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is rarely successful in people who are old or frail, but current policy guidance fails to take this into account
PMCID: PMC1382552
PMID: 16497767
Clinical geneticists currently collect and store information on family history without explicit consent. Are they flouting the Data Protection Act?
PMCID: PMC1360410
PMID: 16455735
If you have a family history of inherited disease, giving details could lead to discrimination
PMCID: PMC1360409
PMID: 16455734
Surgeons and patients seeking improved treatment often forget that a new technique is not necessarily a better one
PMCID: PMC1326944
PMID: 16410591
Evidence based health care should apply to the way that services are delivered as much as it does to treatments
PMCID: PMC1326943
PMID: 16410590
Amid recent improvements in cancer care within the United Kingdom, inadequate radiotherapy capacity compromises care and is an important and underappreciated problem
PMCID: PMC1326942
PMID: 16410589
