BMJ talk medicine

In our new season of Doctor Important, we'll be discussing topics that are not always talked about, and today, by popular request of our listners, we're talking about Coroner's Court and inquests - two things that strike terror into doctors, but are often not as bad as you may fear. Our panel; Clara Munro is a surgical trainee in the North East Deanery. She's joined by her colleage Katie Strong, a...

Starting university can be a really exciting and really nerve-wracking time. There are so many questions you might have before you start. How do you know what to pack? How do you make friends? How do you study? Is it really going to be the best time of your life?! You might be just about to start university in the next week or two, or simply feel like indulging in the nostalgia of those first few...

Status epilepticus is a serious medical emergency. Fortunately, it is relatively rare but when it does occur it can cause a range of serious complications including focal neurological deficits, cognitive dysfunction, and behavioural problems. So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right. In this BMJ Best Practice podcast on status epilepticus, Kieran Walsh ta...

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Professor Bradley J. Monk to discuss the ATHENA-MONO clinical trial. Prof. Monk is an international thought leader and clinical trialist who has developed and advocated for maintenance treatment in newly diagnosed advanced and recurrent ovarian cancer. ATHENA-MONO represents his fifth positive randomized phase 3 tr...

In this conversation with John Dickinson, MD, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Social Media Editor for Journal of Investigative Medicine, JIM editor, Dr. Richard McCallum, provides an overview of the incidence, symptoms, diagnosis and management of gastroparesis. This podcast is especially relevant for primary care physicians, gastroenterologists, and GI researchers. Gastroparesis is...

Dr Philip Smith, Digital and Education Editor of Gut and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK interviews Professor Peter Malfertheiner, Gastroenterologist, who is senior Professor of Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, on the paper 'Management of Helicobacter pylori infection—the Maastricht VI/Florence Consensus Report' p...

The 2013 ARUBA trial concluded that medical management alone is superior to medical management with interventional therapy for patients with unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations. A study was conducted to analyze AVM treatment and epidemiologic response to the ARUBA trial. Following ARUBA, there has been a stark decrease in interventions for uAVMs. Nationwide rAVM discharge incidence is inv...

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by BJCA President Dr Fielder Camm from Oxford, UK. They discuss his recent publication in Heart concerning bullying of trainees in UK cardiology and what we can all do to improve things. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a podcast review at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart-podcast/id445358212?mt=2

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Devon Abt to discuss SLN mapping in endometrial hyperplasia. Devon is a fourth-year Resident in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School currently applying into Gynecologic Oncology fellowship. Highlights: - Fewer than 30% of patients with preoperative diagnosis of endo...

This is our last episode of series 1 of Doctor Informed, and with it we're coming full circle. Clara will be talking to our first two guests, Mary Dixon-Woods and Bill Kirkup, having now heard from all of our other experts over this series. In this first series, we've learned about speaking out, team work, compassionate leadership - all the things that are needed to help clinicians challenge the s...

This is the second in a new series of BMJ Open Gastroenterology interviews, in which we will be covering high-profile publications in conjunction with the lead authors of the papers. In this episode we are focusing on a paper entitled ‘Iron deficiency anaemia: pathophysiology, assessment, practical management’ published online in January 2022 (https://bmjopengastro.bmj.com/content/9/1/e000759). Dr...

Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, take you through the best of the Emergency Medicine Journal in August 2022, covering topics from COVID-19 to triage to community Emergency Medicine to complications of emergency intubation in children and survival rates for out of hospital cardiac arrest. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/8/567, and t...

Dr. Joshua Heerey chats on this podcast to BJSM’s Dr. Liam West about hip joint imaging. Josh gives us a sneak peek into the findings from the “Femoroacetabular impingement & hip OsteoathRitis Cohort (FORCe) study & how they may help clinicians manage their patients with hip and groin pain. The podcast is heavily based around clinical scenarios that are commonly faced in the clinic or sports team...

We want to make you think and consider in this podcast, so we’re wondering if you know if honey can be helpful after tonsillectomies - to reduce pain (https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/9/845.1). And when we are wondering about that, we might already be considering the challenges in assessing subjective outcomes (https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/9/845.2)… and beyond that, getting involved with your ow...

Medicine is a team sport. We work with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver patient care. However, there may be times when you will work with a colleague who worries you professionally. You may find it difficult to address this unprofessional behaviour, especially as a junior member of the team. In this episode, we’ll be talking about when this becomes enough to act and what you can do about it. Ex...

David Hemenway, PhD, is Professor of Health Policy, and the Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcas...

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained heart rhythm disorder in adults worldwide. The prevalence is between 2% and 4%. If left untreated, atrial fibrillation is a significant risk factor for stroke, myocardial infarction and congestive cardiac failure. So it is important that we get diagnosis and management of this condition right. In this BMJ Best Practice podcast on new-onset atrial fi...

The impact of the type of anesthesia on perioperative outcomes has been the subject of much debate. Observational data suggests that neuraxial anesthesia may provide benefits over general anesthesia, especially in the orthopedic population; however, it remains unclear if these benefits can be materialized in all subpopulations. In this month’s RAPM Focus, Executive Editor Stavros Memtsoudis, MD, P...

In this rebroadcasted episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Ainhoa Madariaga to discuss parp inhibitor treatments and adverse events. Dr. Madariaga's article "Manage wisely: poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor (PARPi) treatment and adverse events" (ijgc.bmj.com/content/early/2020…8/ijgc-2020-001288), was the Lead Article in the July 2020 issue of IJGC....

In this podcast, we interview Professor Joel Palefsky about the ANCHOR study. Sexually Transmitted Infections' Editorial Fellow, Dr Ming Lee, speaks to the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Anna Maria Geretti, and Professor Palefsky, chief investigator of the randomised controlled trial, about the study which investigated treatment of anal high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) to pre...

In this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Universität and editor in chief of BMJ EBM are in the hot-seat. They will discuss new research on the effectiveness of antidepressants - based on all the individual patient data submitted to the FDA between 1979 and now. We'll take a look at a study of in...

Despite the Conservation party manifesto for the 2019 general election promising to deliver 6,000 additional full-time equivalent GPs, worryingly, the NHS lost 717 FTE GPs between March 2019 and March 2022, and the Health and Social Care Committee’s July 2022 report on workforce was scathing about the Government’s failure to act decisively on the chronic staff shortages across healthcare in the UK...

In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) talk about the September 2022 issue of DTB. They discuss a new national guideline on the management of gout (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/9/130). They highlight a safety update on the risk of vitamin B12 deficiency with metformin (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/9/131) and provide an overview of a study that anal...

Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, take you through the best of the Emergency Medicine Journal in July 2022. They cover some important topics including ED crowding, telephone triage, unrecognised endobroncheal intubation, acute coronary syndromes and pre-hospital trauma. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/7/491 If you enjoy our podcast,...

In this rebroadcasted episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Nicole Concin to discuss the ESGO-ESTRO-ESP Endometrial Cancer Guidelines. Original release date: January 4, 2021