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Mashup Score: 2Authorship anatomy: a guide for scholars - 4 year(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 19What your patient is drawing - 5 year(s) ago
These images are from Diabetes: Year One, a graphic pathography by artist and illustrator Tony Pickering. Tony combines comics, poetry, and memoir to record his experiences of being diagnosed and living with type 1 diabetes in mid life. His works consider medical experience in terms of living a life; and …
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How illustrator @mrpickers combines comics, poetry, and memoir to depict medical experience in terms of living a life. "Navigating this landscape is bound up with the psychology of illness as a constant presence." #XmasBMJ https://t.co/vTRHwL6Mh7
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Mashup Score: 0Skeletons in the closet: towards the dignified disposal of all human bones acquired for medical education - 5 year(s) ago
Human bones have long been used for education in medicine, but in modern times this is unnecessary and hard to justify, argue Jonathan Coman and colleagues Your family is preparing for Christmas. While searching through the cupboard for decorations, you discover an old box. It contains human bones, prompting a battery of questions from the children: Is that a real person? Who? Why are the bones…
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Human bones have long been used for education in medicine, but in modern times this is unnecessary and hard to justify, say @juliansavulescu @DrSimonCraig @kellyam_jec. Respect for human autonomy should extend to how their body is used after death #XmasBMJ https://t.co/6zJLa6XqVD
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Mashup Score: 10Kindness: an underrated currency - 5 year(s) ago
Cultivation of kindness is a valuable part of the business of healthcare When we reflect on the past decade, it feels as if we have made a big mistake in healthcare. We have allowed the dominant narrative to be around money, taking the focus, energy, and leadership away from our core purpose of delivering the best care possible. Balancing the books is important, especially in a tax funded…
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We have made a big mistake in healthcare in allowing the dominant narrative to be around money, argue @BobKlaber and @bailey_suzie. Balancing the books is important, but we must not forget how kindness is an essential ingredient in healthcare https://t.co/rTQkt72e44 #XmasBMJ
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Mashup Score: 0The art of wellbeing - 5 year(s) ago
Artwork by patients of mental health services in south London is exhibited at the Bethlem Gallery in Beckenham. Integrated within the Bethlem Royal psychiatric hospital and funded by the Maudsley Charity, the gallery is run by artists and aims to provide a supportive environment for artistic development as part of recovery and wellbeing. “Nothing is ever too much of a big idea here. There is a…
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"Treatments and the art co-existed harmoniously.” How @Bethlem_Gallery supports patients in the affiliated psychiatric hospital to develop their art as part of their recovery https://t.co/Hwp4EbCyWH #XmasBMJ
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Mashup Score: 0Elephant in the room: animal assisted interventions - 5 year(s) ago
A growing industry that urgently needs better supporting evidence Healthcare settings as diverse as acute inpatient wards, rehabilitation and psychiatric units, hospices, and dementia care homes open their doors to animals and their handlers every day, aiming to improve patient wellbeing. Most of the animals are dogs, although cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other species can also be…
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The human-animal bond is powerful—generating robust evidence on how best to harness it could result in substantial gains for patients and health services, say @ElenaRatschen and Trevor Sheldon #XmasBMJ https://t.co/Wp4Yqowk6d
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Mashup Score: 0The hammer: instrument of Thor (and orthopaedic surgeons) - 5 year(s) ago
Hosam E Matar and colleagues examine the history of one of our oldest tools The hammer is arguably the first tool lifted by prehistoric man, and despite advancing digital technology it remains an essential tool in many aspects of modern life. In parallel to the development of the human brain, the hammer evolved along myriad paths to appear in the tool boxes of many professions, from stonemasons…
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In parallel to the development of the human brain, the hammer has evolved to appear in the tool boxes of many professions, from stonemasons to astronauts and surgeons. This #XmasBMJ article examines the history of one of our oldest tools https://t.co/J1HSYcUBoo @tim_n_board
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Mashup Score: 0Bring me joy - 5 year(s) ago
In the spirit of the season, Abi Rimmer asks six doctors to describe what brings them joy at work It can often feel as though there is little to be positive about when working in healthcare, and it is easy to forget that there is joy to be found during the working day. But joy at work can and does exist for many doctors. This might come from an interaction with a patient or colleague, or from…
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What gives me joy at work? Pride—Pride in being part of our fabulous NHS. @martinpgriff #XmasBMJ #BringMeJoy https://t.co/lIi6bxWZXZ
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Mashup Score: 21
Rejected by the British war effort in 1914 because they were women, a band of medics took their considerable skills across the channel to France. Chris Holme traces their story with the help of newly available documents In the summer of 1914 the British War Office turned down a generous offer from a Scottish physician, Elsie Inglis, to set up a military hospital entirely staffed by women. She…
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Rejected by the British war effort in 1914 because they were women, a band of medics took their considerable skills across the channel to France, holding together in the face of horrendous waves of casualties. @historycompany traces their story #XmasBMJ https://t.co/N9ZlIz93LA
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Mashup Score: 0The SSSPIN study—spin in studies of spin: meta-research analysis - 5 year(s) ago
Objectives To identify and calculate the prevalence of spin in studies of spin. Design Meta-research analysis (research on research). Setting 35 studies of spin in the scientific literature. Main outcome measures Spin, categorised as: reporting practices that distort the presentation and interpretation of results, creating misleading conclusions; discordance between results and their…
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Identification and characterisation of spin is an active area of research. A new #XmasBMJ study also finds that spin scholars are less likely to spin their conclusions than other researchers @kelliachiu @QuinnGrundy https://t.co/xINMESxvvC
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#XMasBMJ strikes again. I am #Liver %>% What are you? Again #Spleen is useless:@DGlaucomflecken. There can be no argument re: oxford comma, surely! Authorship anatomy: a guide for scholars https://t.co/YonwirWCJr @bmj_latest #PedsICU #Rstats @MiguelrrMD @nelsonSpinto @docwt