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Evidence has repeatedly demonstrated that when marketing is conflated with medical education the consequences can not just be harmful but also undermine the scientific pursuit of objectivity.
The support of the BMJ Editor in Chief to address meaningfully financial conflicts of interest in medicine and science is most welcome. As an NHS doctor of 25 years I … Continue reading ‘The willingness among some within medicine and research to tackle conflicts of interest’
Fiona Godlee’s ‘final choice‘, after 17 years as the BMJ’s Editor-in-Chief, was to remind the healthcare and scientific community how important it is to speak truth to power. Fiona Godlee … Continue reading My final choice: speaking truth to power
In my dictionary I find this definition of ‘blot’: On learning that GSK will resume paying doctors to promote its drugs after a “policy U turn”, Fiona Godlee, Editor in … Continue reading Dr Fiona Godlee on Paid Opinion Leaders
Hilary Mantel shares this, one of her first memories, in ‘Giving up the ghost‘. One of my earliest memories was also from a pram: above me I could see a … Continue reading This is the first thing I remember
In her own words: Included in the AFTERWORDS of this memoir:
22 March 2018: Two years to the day, from the release of the outcome of the public consultation on my petition, I returned to the Scottish Parliament to make a … Continue reading Open your ears, listen, let the people petition and be heard
This article features in the latest BMJ. It has been made open access and is copied in full below. I campaigned for Scotland to introduce Sunshine legislation. I did so … Continue reading Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: 4 years on and where is the response to the Cumberlege Review?