Day: 29 August 2016

The BMA is right to point out that the widespread practice, driven by necessity, of GPs expecting to treat patients in a ten minute consultation is wrong by every measure. Ten minutes is not enough to deal with any but the most trivial of conditions or mundane of routines. These should anyway be carried out […]

The deal between the Colombian government and the Farc rebels, brokered by Cuba assisted by Norway in four years of talks, proves that even after fifty plus years of fighting wars can be brought to an end. And not by violence, but by talking. Talking between enemies, no matter how bitter and guilty of what […]