Kamran Abbasi
Editor-in-Chief at The BMJ
Editor in chief, The BMJ @bmj_latest | @EditorJRSM | i: @kamran_abbasi_bmj | Cricket writer: Dawn | https://t.co/Z5D0jqLAde | Book: ‘Englistan’ via Amazon
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bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi
Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief The BMJ kabbasi{at}bmj.com In 2004, we published a historic theme issue on South Asia (doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7443.777)1 with a grand ambition: “This non-political collaboration may be the beginning of a sustained and combined effort to improve healthcare in the region and, perhaps, promote peace and unity in a part of the world crippled by religious, social, and nationalist divisions” (doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7421.941).2 Despite a worsening relationship between India...
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bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi |Mun-Keat Looi
Intended for healthcare professionals News & ViewsHow to combat...
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bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi
Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief The BMJ kabbasi{at}bmj.com Last year Robert F Kennedy Jr, now the US health secretary, ordered medical journals to “start publishing real science and stop retracting the real science.” Now, after delivering 100 days of global disruption, Donald Trump’s administration has aimed its wrecking ball at medical and scientific journals (doi:10.1136/bmj.r812).1 In the minds of Trump and his chosen health leaders there is “good science” and “bad science,” good scientists...
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journals.sagepub.com | Kamran Abbasi
Is it possible to get antibiotic prescribing right, to balance the needs of patients and the push to reduce antibiotic prescribing? In the prevailing climate of financial austerity and plunging global financial markets, every cost and investment is being scrutinised. This doesn’t much help clinicians in primary care who need to decide whether or not to prescribe an antibiotic. Often, too, patients are adamant that an antibiotic is what they need and that it has helped them in the past.
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journals.sagepub.com | Kamran Abbasi
Quiet quitting is a concept that you might not have heard of. It refers, in its simplest sense, to opting out of tasks beyond assigned duties and/or being less invested in work.1 It’s a post-pandemic phenomenon and isn’t at all confined to healthcare. But you can see that if healthcare professionals become quiet quitters, how this might adversely affect delivery of care and therefore patient wellbeing. The response seems to be one of focusing on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs.
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