How do privilege and prejudice shape access to emergency care? In this reflection on equality and global health, updated in 2023, Stevan Bruijns challenges his own assumptions and asks readers to consider whose experiences, research and opportunities are represented in medicine.
Emergency Department Management
This May 2018 privacy update explains St Emlyn’s approach as GDPR took effect, covering email subscriptions, analytics, cookies and requests to delete personal data. It records the site’s arrangements at that time and provides a contact for readers with privacy concerns.
Conference ReportsAcute Medicine
The opening day of badEMfest 2018 puts equality, advocacy and African-led solutions at the centre of emergency care. This report brings together discussions of traditional medicine, respectful transgender care, point-of-care ultrasound and resuscitation, asking how local context and unequal access shape what clinicians can achieve.
Can statistical checks uncover unreliable clinical research? This 2017 discussion examines John Carlisle’s analysis of baseline data in randomised trials, considering errors, possible fabrication and the responsibilities of journals, while cautioning that an unusual result is not proof of fraud.
Emergency Department Management
How can emergency care reflect what matters to a patient before a crisis occurs? This 2017 introduction to ReSPECT explores personalised treatment planning, early conversations with patients and families, and why the discussion matters more than the form alone.
What happens when clinicians cannot access the research they need? This 2016 discussion uses Sci-Hub to examine paywalls, open access and disruption in medical publishing, weighing ethical tensions, legal concerns and sustainability without offering a simple endorsement of the service.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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