BMJ talk medicine

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Katherine Hicks-Courant, MD, MSHP. Dr. Hicks-Courant is a fellow in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies the intersection of gynecologic oncology, palliative care and oncology care delivery systems. Highlights: Having a gynecologic rather than a medical oncologist was...

In this podcast, RMD Open's Social Media Advisor, Dr. Paul Studenic, speaks to Dr. Giovanni Adami, from Universita degli Studi di Verona, Italy, about his population-based cohort study evaluating air pollution-associated risk of developing an immune-mediated disease. By using an Italian-wide patient-dataset, initially designed for fracture risk assessment in women in combination with data for air-...

This is the first 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 quarter’s podcast, we will be discussing a review article entitled ‘Enteropathies with villous atrophy but negative coeliac serology in adults: current issues’ published online in November 2021 (https://bmjopen...

Duane Peters from the Lupus Foundation of America interviews Professor Ronald van Vollenhoven from the Amsterdam University Medical Centers in the Netherlands and Dr Cynthia Aranow from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in New York, USA. They discuss the efforts of the DORIS international task force to agree on a single definition of remission in systemic lupus erythematosus, which they...

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Dr Andrew Perry is joined by Dr. Stephanie Curtis, a physician at the Bristol Royal Infirmary who specializes in caring for women who are pregnant and have co-morbid aortopathy. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a podcast review at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart-podcast/id445358212?mt=2 Link to published paper: https://heart.bmj.com/content/ear...

In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) provide an overview of the June 2022 issue of DTB. They discuss the impact that the cessation of spirometry services in primary care has had on diagnosing obstructive lung disease (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/6/82). They highlight two separate patient safety incident reports from the Healthcare Safety Investiga...

In Doctor Informed, we've been hearing a lot about the problems of healthcare, but we also want to talk about solutions. Whatever we're going to do to fix healthcare, whether that's bullying, or burnout, or patient safety - it's going to require change. And change is hard. In this episode Clara Munro is joined by Graham Martin, director of research at THIS Institute. They discuss the dreaded phras...

Consultations about suspected cow’s milk protein allergies are quite common in primary care, but these allergies can be a challenge to diagnose, particularly as symptoms can manifest in many different ways, and testing can be complicated. We talk to Dr. Nicola Brathwaite about the diagnosis and management of cow’s milk protein allergies in infants, and our discussion includes how to navigate consu...

This month’s “RAPM Focus” highlights a small study conducted by a team out of the University of California San Diego, designed to determine if percutaneous cryoneurolysis of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is feasible and shows potential for future study in management of burn patients. Dr. John J. Finneran is the first author of “Percutaneous cryoneurolysis of the lateral femoral cutaneous ner...

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Rene Pareja to discuss conservative management of cervical cancer. Dr. Pareja is a gynecologist-oncologist at Astorga Oncology Clinic in Medellín and the National Cancer Institute in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a reviewer for more than 20 specialty journals, an Associate Editor for IJGC, a member of the Editorial B...

This month we have an interlude in our rush to ask, acquire, appraise and apply the next quality evidence available to our clinically greedy hands, and spend five minutes going over the process of creating an Archimedes. Dr. Bob Philips, Social Media, and Archimedes Editor take you through what you might expect … what might be asked of you … and how to give the fruits of your intellectual inquiry...

“Do no harm” is a mantra that is drummed into medical students from day 1 of medical school. Most of us have gone into medicine as we believe medicine to be a force of good. However, too much medicine is capable of causing harm to patients and generating unnecessary waste. In this episode, we spoke about overdiagnosis, communicating risks and benefits with patients, and why you shouldn't take that...

In this BJSM Podcast Dr Amy Dennett is hosted by Dr Brooke Patterson. Historically people with cancer have been told to rest, and patients and practitioners are often hesitant to get started with physical activity. Amy provides some great practical tips and resources - to support people with cancer exercise safely, safety and precautions, and tips for healthcare services and providers who want to...

Ischaemic stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The World Health Organization defines stroke as “a clinical syndrome consisting of rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than that of vascular origin”. David Wang, Professor of Neurology, Barrow Neurological...

This month we have a feast of studies looking at cardiac arrest. Want to know if one-handed CPR is any good for multi-tasking pre-hospital responders? You'll find out if you listen. Want to know if pre-hospital ECMO should be a thing for elite athletes at major events? We cover that too. Want to know if machine learning is about to revolutionise our practice and solve all our crowding problems? It...

Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor is back with another episode, and this week is joined by Joe Ross, professor of medicine and public health at Yale, and US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires In this episode they discuss; The US supreme court looks set to overtur...

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Susana Banerjee to discuss SOLO1. Dr. Banerjee is a Consultant Medical Oncologist and Research Lead for the Gynaecology Unit. She is also Reader in Women’s Cancers at the Institute of Cancer Research. Dr Banerjee specialises in ovarian cancer and the systemic treatment of endometrial and cervical cancers. Highl...

The Woven EndoBridge (WEB) device has FDA approval for treatment of wide-necked intracranial bifurcation aneurysms. It has been shown to result in adequate occlusion in bifurcation aneurysms overall, but its usefulness in the individual bifurcation locations has been evaluated separately only in few case series, which were limited by small sample sizes. In this podcast, JNIS Editor-in-Chief, Dr. F...

Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Nick Brown, and Senior Editor, Dr Rachel Agbeko, bring you the Atoms - the highlights of the June 2022 issue. Read it on the Archives of Disease in Childhood website: https://adc.bmj.com/content/107/6/i Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify to get episodes automaticall...

Practical Neurology Editors Phil Smith and Geraint Fuller talk you through the highlights of the June 2022 issue of the journal. Read more on the PN website: https://pn.bmj.com/content/22/3/175 The full issue here: https://pn.bmj.com/content/22/3 Please subscribe to the Practical Neurology podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get th...

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Dr Christopher Fordyce from the University of British Columbia. They discuss how good physicians are at judging the nature of chest pain. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a podcast review at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart-podcast/id445358212?mt=2 Link to published paper: https://heart.bmj.com/c...

Returning to work as a nurse with Long Covid is thwart with difficulties in part due to its relapsing-remitting nature. Many nurses with Long Covid experience post-exertional malaise and symptom exacerbation if they push themselves and this may trigger a major relapse. This means that a return to work needs to be planned carefully. In this second podcast of a series about Long Covid, Dr Alison Twy...

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Glauco Baiocchi. Dr. Baiocchi is the Director of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at the AC Camargo Cancer Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Highlights: -SLN biopsy has emerged as an accurate method for lymph node staging in endometrial cancer. -Prospective studies aimed to analyze the performance of SLN biops...

Parosmia – a distorted sense of smell, and a delayed post-covid symptom – affects approximately 50% of people who experienced loss of smell during their initial covid infection, and it is currently attracting a lot of media attention. We hear from Emily Woodroofe, a third year medical student, about what it’s like to have parosmia, before we speak to Professor Claire Hopkins about what GPs need to...

The influence of public health on politics, at least at the beginning of the pandemic, had never been stronger - but now it seems as hard to persuade politicians to pay attention as ever, yet political will is essential in making different sectors work together to create a healthier world. In this podcast, The BMJ's editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi is joined by Shyama Kuruvilla, senior strategic adv...