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We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Everyone has a favourite edition of the British National Formulary.
How has the the go-to reference point for healthcare professionals in the UK and beyond changed (and grown) over time?
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
How has the the go-to reference point for healthcare professionals in the UK and beyond changed (and grown) over time?
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Everyone has a favourite edition of the British National Formulary.
How has the the go-to reference point for healthcare professionals in the UK and beyond changed (and grown) over time?
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
How has the the go-to reference point for healthcare professionals in the UK and beyond changed (and grown) over time?
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Wes Streeting has proposed repurposing 1000 locally employed doctor (LED) posts into training numbers for resident doctors.
Converting these roles would almost certainly involve terminating existing LED contracts, writes @parthaskar.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Converting these roles would almost certainly involve terminating existing LED contracts, writes @parthaskar.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wes Streeting has proposed repurposing 1000 locally employed doctor (LED) posts into training numbers for resident doctors.
Converting these roles would almost certainly involve terminating existing LED contracts, writes @parthaskar.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Converting these roles would almost certainly involve terminating existing LED contracts, writes @parthaskar.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
"I'll do the 72 hour weeks. I will do the grind. But I can't, because there's no job for me to do that."
@bma.org.uk Residents Committee chair, Jack Fletcher joins The BMJ to explain why doctors are striking this December
Read the full story ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
@bma.org.uk Residents Committee chair, Jack Fletcher joins The BMJ to explain why doctors are striking this December
Read the full story ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"I'll do the 72 hour weeks. I will do the grind. But I can't, because there's no job for me to do that."
@bma.org.uk Residents Committee chair, Jack Fletcher joins The BMJ to explain why doctors are striking this December
Read the full story ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
@bma.org.uk Residents Committee chair, Jack Fletcher joins The BMJ to explain why doctors are striking this December
Read the full story ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
"Whenever a clinician needs information, we would expect the first port of call to be the BNF."
Kate Towers from @rpharms.com speaks to The BMJ.
Read more about the BNF and its changing role (and size!) over decades of clinical practice
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Kate Towers from @rpharms.com speaks to The BMJ.
Read more about the BNF and its changing role (and size!) over decades of clinical practice
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Whenever a clinician needs information, we would expect the first port of call to be the BNF."
Kate Towers from @rpharms.com speaks to The BMJ.
Read more about the BNF and its changing role (and size!) over decades of clinical practice
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Kate Towers from @rpharms.com speaks to The BMJ.
Read more about the BNF and its changing role (and size!) over decades of clinical practice
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Healthcare real estate has emerged as a lucrative target for financial firms.
This @bmj.com research evaluates changes in hospital financial performance and quality of care after real estate investment trust acquisition
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
This @bmj.com research evaluates changes in hospital financial performance and quality of care after real estate investment trust acquisition
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Healthcare real estate has emerged as a lucrative target for financial firms.
This @bmj.com research evaluates changes in hospital financial performance and quality of care after real estate investment trust acquisition
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
This @bmj.com research evaluates changes in hospital financial performance and quality of care after real estate investment trust acquisition
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
The week after the autumn clock change is associated with a reduction in demand for NHS services for sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, and psychiatric conditions in England, finds this study
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The week after the autumn clock change is associated with a reduction in demand for NHS services for sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, and psychiatric conditions in England, finds this study
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Every day until Christmas, we're sharing a newly coined word from @drmattmorgan.bsky.social medical lexicon.
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Rosterosis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Rosterosis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Every day until Christmas, we're sharing a newly coined word from @drmattmorgan.bsky.social medical lexicon.
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Rosterosis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Rosterosis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser.
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser.
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
"As we invent the future of healthcare, we must assert that patients are not data clouds, care is not computation, and that to care is human."
A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"As we invent the future of healthcare, we must assert that patients are not data clouds, care is not computation, and that to care is human."
A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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🧵1/ The Christmas @bmj.com is always an opportunity to use satire as a vehicle for serious health messaging. Borrowing from Jonathan Swift, I ask, if public health is to “work with industry,” why stop at alcohol and gambling? Why not go all the way… and collaborate with organised crime?
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🧵1/ The Christmas @bmj.com is always an opportunity to use satire as a vehicle for serious health messaging. Borrowing from Jonathan Swift, I ask, if public health is to “work with industry,” why stop at alcohol and gambling? Why not go all the way… and collaborate with organised crime?
"This is not a dictionary of pathology. It is a shared language."
Today's word in @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon is Radiloom: The suspended moment between ignorance and revelation while an x ray loads
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Today's word in @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon is Radiloom: The suspended moment between ignorance and revelation while an x ray loads
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"This is not a dictionary of pathology. It is a shared language."
Today's word in @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon is Radiloom: The suspended moment between ignorance and revelation while an x ray loads
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Today's word in @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon is Radiloom: The suspended moment between ignorance and revelation while an x ray loads
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
"My day never really ends" — a day in the life of an emergency doctor in a Nigerian cholera treatment centre.
Donate to the #BMJAppeal to support MSF's work around the world.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Donate to the #BMJAppeal to support MSF's work around the world.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"My day never really ends" — a day in the life of an emergency doctor in a Nigerian cholera treatment centre.
Donate to the #BMJAppeal to support MSF's work around the world.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Donate to the #BMJAppeal to support MSF's work around the world.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
What are the words that capture what medicine feels like when no ICD code will do?
We looked through @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's dictionary of medical words and selected our favourites
Today's word is PlotTwistitis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
We looked through @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's dictionary of medical words and selected our favourites
Today's word is PlotTwistitis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What are the words that capture what medicine feels like when no ICD code will do?
We looked through @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's dictionary of medical words and selected our favourites
Today's word is PlotTwistitis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
We looked through @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's dictionary of medical words and selected our favourites
Today's word is PlotTwistitis
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
The full Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming!
To get us in the festive mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue and respond.
Inspired by this article on the hidden health risks of Disney princesses 👸
bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the festive mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue and respond.
Inspired by this article on the hidden health risks of Disney princesses 👸
bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The full Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming!
To get us in the festive mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue and respond.
Inspired by this article on the hidden health risks of Disney princesses 👸
bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the festive mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue and respond.
Inspired by this article on the hidden health risks of Disney princesses 👸
bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
This state of the art review summarises recent political action, policy prioritisation, and identification of future threats in antimicrobial use and resistance
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This state of the art review summarises recent political action, policy prioritisation, and identification of future threats in antimicrobial use and resistance
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
"You can’t deliver what you seek to deliver without fixing the cultural and ethical holes in your battle plan."
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social reflects on some fundamental issues Wes Streeting should consider in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social reflects on some fundamental issues Wes Streeting should consider in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"You can’t deliver what you seek to deliver without fixing the cultural and ethical holes in your battle plan."
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social reflects on some fundamental issues Wes Streeting should consider in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social reflects on some fundamental issues Wes Streeting should consider in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Unlocking medicine's unnamed moments, one word at a time. 💡
Discover today's addition to @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon.
Read the words so far at bit.ly/3MxgHUu
#BMJChristmas
Discover today's addition to @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon.
Read the words so far at bit.ly/3MxgHUu
#BMJChristmas
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Unlocking medicine's unnamed moments, one word at a time. 💡
Discover today's addition to @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon.
Read the words so far at bit.ly/3MxgHUu
#BMJChristmas
Discover today's addition to @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon.
Read the words so far at bit.ly/3MxgHUu
#BMJChristmas
The Christmas issue of The BMJ is almost upon us!
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to read last year's issue and respond to some articles.
Inspired by a look at the development of death cafes 🪦☕
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to read last year's issue and respond to some articles.
Inspired by a look at the development of death cafes 🪦☕
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Christmas issue of The BMJ is almost upon us!
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to read last year's issue and respond to some articles.
Inspired by a look at the development of death cafes 🪦☕
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to read last year's issue and respond to some articles.
Inspired by a look at the development of death cafes 🪦☕
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
"An abrupt dismantling of the agency, without a considered plan, risks undermining hard-won gains."
As the UNAIDS board meets next week to decide the agency’s future, it should focus on a strategic transition that safeguards progress
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
As the UNAIDS board meets next week to decide the agency’s future, it should focus on a strategic transition that safeguards progress
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"An abrupt dismantling of the agency, without a considered plan, risks undermining hard-won gains."
As the UNAIDS board meets next week to decide the agency’s future, it should focus on a strategic transition that safeguards progress
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
As the UNAIDS board meets next week to decide the agency’s future, it should focus on a strategic transition that safeguards progress
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
"When our language shrinks, the human side of medicine begins to suffocate."
That's why @drmattmorgan.bsky.social started a medical dictionary. We're highlighting our favourites in the lead up to Christmas.
Today's word is Lifespill
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
That's why @drmattmorgan.bsky.social started a medical dictionary. We're highlighting our favourites in the lead up to Christmas.
Today's word is Lifespill
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"When our language shrinks, the human side of medicine begins to suffocate."
That's why @drmattmorgan.bsky.social started a medical dictionary. We're highlighting our favourites in the lead up to Christmas.
Today's word is Lifespill
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
That's why @drmattmorgan.bsky.social started a medical dictionary. We're highlighting our favourites in the lead up to Christmas.
Today's word is Lifespill
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
The Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming soon!
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The Christmas issue of The BMJ is coming soon!
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
To get us in the mood we asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to have a look at last year's issue, and respond to some articles.
Inspired by this article evaluating the cognitive abilities of AI 🤖
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
#BMJChristmas
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights is inherently social and political.
Yet the current funding environment sidelines this reality, privileging what's apolitical, say @khosla.bsky.social @pascaleallotey.bsky.social Sofia Gruskin #SRHR #HumanRightsDay
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Yet the current funding environment sidelines this reality, privileging what's apolitical, say @khosla.bsky.social @pascaleallotey.bsky.social Sofia Gruskin #SRHR #HumanRightsDay
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights is inherently social and political.
Yet the current funding environment sidelines this reality, privileging what's apolitical, say @khosla.bsky.social @pascaleallotey.bsky.social Sofia Gruskin #SRHR #HumanRightsDay
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Yet the current funding environment sidelines this reality, privileging what's apolitical, say @khosla.bsky.social @pascaleallotey.bsky.social Sofia Gruskin #SRHR #HumanRightsDay
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Every day until Christmas, we're sharing a newly coined word from @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Hospibrew: The distinctive hospital smell of equal parts reheated food and human waste
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Hospibrew: The distinctive hospital smell of equal parts reheated food and human waste
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Every day until Christmas, we're sharing a newly coined word from @drmattmorgan.bsky.social's medical lexicon
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Hospibrew: The distinctive hospital smell of equal parts reheated food and human waste
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Some are thoughtful. Some are quietly humorous.
Today's word is Hospibrew: The distinctive hospital smell of equal parts reheated food and human waste
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
“Thousands of locally employed doctors trapped by insecure 'Gig Economy' contracts".
The BMJ's head of journalism @rebeccacoombes.bsky.social joins @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to talk about locally employed doctors
⏯️ www.bmj.com/podcasts
The BMJ's head of journalism @rebeccacoombes.bsky.social joins @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to talk about locally employed doctors
⏯️ www.bmj.com/podcasts
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Thousands of locally employed doctors trapped by insecure 'Gig Economy' contracts".
The BMJ's head of journalism @rebeccacoombes.bsky.social joins @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to talk about locally employed doctors
⏯️ www.bmj.com/podcasts
The BMJ's head of journalism @rebeccacoombes.bsky.social joins @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to talk about locally employed doctors
⏯️ www.bmj.com/podcasts