Stephen Ginn on complementary therapy and disenfranchisement
TweetI went to a debate on complementary medicine recently, hosted by the KCL Social Medicine Society. Despite being held on Guy’s Hospital Campus, a supposed stronghold of conventional medicine, the...
View ArticleStephen Ginn on antidepressants: psychiatrists only?
TweetRecently I saw a patient who has problems with use of multiple recreational drugs and alcohol. The patient had never seen a psychiatrist before, but has been taking an antidepressant for the past...
View ArticleStephen Ginn on “sexting”
TweetThere was a new moral panic last week. Teenagers are “sexting” each other and, using magic new distribution channels, sometimes these images are distributed way beyond their original recipients....
View ArticleStephen Ginn on US health care reform
TweetI was out for dinner with a New Yorker friend of mine recently. She’s British, but she’d brought along an American friend and I happened to mention to him how much I was digging President Obama....
View ArticleStephen Ginn on David Nutt being sacked
TweetHaving been sacked from his position as the chief UK government drugs advisor Professor David Nutt may today be reflecting on the precarious position of anyone who seeks to advise politicians on...
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Stephen Ginn: Xmas manifesto
TweetIt’s easy to assume that things are as they’ve always been. This of course is not the case and recently I discovered that the rate of economic growth during the UK’s industrial revolution, one of...
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Stephen Ginn on energy use in hospitals
TweetAccording to a recent article in the Guardian newspaper I’ve worked in the two most polluting buildings in the UK. Over the course of one year the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel was...
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Stephen Ginn: NHS Summary Care Record
TweetPeople living in London and four other strategic health authorities are currently receiving information in the post about the rollout of the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR) system. SCR is part of...
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Stephen Ginn: First impressions on being the BMJ’s editorial registrar
TweetLast Wednesday I joined the BMJ as the Roger Robinson editorial registrar. This is my first despatch from the frontline of medical publishing. The registrar role has been running for 22 years and...
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Stephen Ginn: Whither the riots? A theory digest
TweetLast week’s riots took place across different nights in multiple cities and involved no one ethnic group. The reasons behind them are complex and a unifying theory is likely to be evasive. Many...
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Stephen Ginn: Metaphors in medicine
TweetMetaphors are widely used by both healthcare professionals and lay people when talking about matters of health. Despite this their role is largely unrecognised. This is a shame, I feel, as they...
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Stephen Ginn: Living in emergency
TweetThe RSM’s Global health and human rights film club launched on 8 September 2011 with a screening of director Mark Hopkins’ Living in Emergency. Filmed in the war zones of Liberia and Congo it...
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Stephen Ginn: The future of academic publishing
TweetThe first salvo in the Guardian’s recently published series of articles on academic publishing was delivered by veteran agitator George Monbiot. Journals publish government funded research,...
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Stephen Ginn: Occupy London
TweetEstablished on 15 October outside St Paul’s and watched over by a statue of Queen Victoria, the Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) camp continues its controversial settlement in central London....
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Stephen Ginn: Military medicine
TweetWar may not be good for much, but it has proved to be an effective incubator for innovation. I’m not just talking about the Slinky: the development of nylon, polythene, and aerosol sprays also...
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Stephen Ginn: smartphone health apps for the future
TweetI learnt some interesting facts about mobile phones the other day. For instance, there are 59 countries where mobile phones outnumber people. This refers to mobile phones actually in use, rather...
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Stephen Ginn: The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo
TweetThe author Philip Gourevitch once wrote: “Oh Congo, what a wreck. It hurts to look and listen. It hurts to turn away.” Exploited and misruled for much of its modern history, this country has spent...
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Stephen Ginn: “Moral obligation” or “a disaster for humanity and the planet?”
TweetIs medical control of human aging a worthy goal? Despite the moisturisers you can buy it is impossible to reverse the damage of aging and very few of us will live to anywhere near the theoretical...
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