Can a patient be a ‘friend’?
Not best advised according to new BMA guidance for doctors using online social media
A fatal error?
Associate publications editor Joanne Curran attends a mock fatal accident inquiry run by the MDDUS legal team.
Never a dull moment
Emergency medicine trainee Dr Craig Brown discusses why he chose the specialty and shares his experiences of working on medicine’s frontline
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Product review of MIMS and SIGN apps.
Coming of age
A career in geriatric medicine
Naming the dead
Professor Sue Black’s work in the field of forensic anthropology has helped convict killers and find justice for victims of war crimes
Switching roles
THE government has announced new paternity leave legislation, meaning that parents will be legally entitled to share time off work during their baby's first year
Tweet and be damned
Social networking can often blur the boundaries between private and professional life. So what are the implications for doctors and dentists? Paul Motion and Lindsay Urquhart of bto solicitors offer some insights
Care, not control
Antipsychotic drugs are still routinely used to manage symptoms in people with dementia despite the fact that the majority are inappropriate and potentially dangerous. Professor Alistair Burns is part of an initiative to change this