An irresistible case for doctors and medical organisations to take action to prevent or halt genocide. Just out @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Farage: epic grifter

www.medicinanarrativa.eu/learning-for... Some reflections from my dear partner in educational endeavour regarding the event we ran on learning for dialogue and compassion in a Polarised World. Thank you to all those who attended and helped plan the day. @johnlauner.bsky.social

Trump is no doubt too ignorant to realise it, but his alliance to govern Palestine is basically a reconstruction of the Ottoman Empire which did so, more or less peacefully, from 1517 to 1917 (until the British took it over and screwed everything up.)

I love the way AI can't tell when you're taking the mickey.

Medical students and residents learn formulaic ways of conducting consultations. But in reality these can often develop in multiple directions, and be more like freeform jazz than line dancing. How do we teach this? My latest "Talking Point" @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

Important new book by current and former staff of all faith backgrounds at the Tavistock Clinic. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Does anyone want an old church pedal organ and a red three-seater sofa? No I didn't think so. But they're free to anyone who can pick them up from a storage unit in Rhyl, North Wales. Can't get rid of them for love or money but very sad about this. (I bought the organ in Llanrwst for £1 in 1970)

Yet again, the structures and funding for medical education in England are being reorganised. Will anything be learned from the successes and follies of previous rounds of musical chairs? My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

Yet again, the structures and funding for medical education in England are being reorganised. Will anything be learned from the successes and follies of previous rounds of musical chairs? My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

A date for your diary. The AGM of the Association of Narrative Practice in Health Care will feature some of the latest developments in teaching and learning "Conversations Inviting Change", including our online courses in the UK and Japan, the use of AI, and Educating Against Hatred. Open to all.

"Narrative Means to Normative Ends." Jens Foell and I make the case for using a story-centred approach in statutory contexts like safeguarding procedures and compulsory admission. Just out in the Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Does western civilisation deserve to survive?

A new book by current and former staff of the Tavistock Clinic, including an Epilogue I contributed: "How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel." www.amazon.co.uk/even-talk-ab...

The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social. bjgplife.com/encounters-w...

Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi

Doctors are familiar with the term neurodiversity and largely see it as a valuable concept. Should we also use the idea of "psychodiversity" to acknowledge the different ways that patients - and we ourselves - may feel and behave? My latest column @bmj.com , just out. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Doctors are familiar with the term neurodiversity and largely see it as a valuable concept. Should we also use the idea of "psychodiversity" to acknowledge the different ways that patients - and we ourselves - may feel and behave? My latest column @bmj.com , just out. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Cardinal Zuppi leads seven-hour prayer, naming every child killed in Holy Land war It took him 7 hours. www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...

Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2

Doctors are familiar with the term neurodiversity are largely see it as a valuable concept. Should we also use the idea of "psychodiversity" to acknowledge the different ways that patients - and we ourselves - may feel and behave? My latest column @bmj.com, just out. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

"I would argue that it might offer a helpful way of looking at mental and emotional ill health and, indeed, at ourselves." The term “psychodiversity” can help us understand what it means to be human, writes @johnlauner.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Powerful, painful and beautiful.. too. Our Marriage Includes an Emergency Backpack As an Israeli-Palestinian couple in the West Bank with family in Gaza, we have learned that love isn’t enough to save us, or anyone. By Sari Bashi www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/s...

An interesting piece by @johnlauner.bsky.social in the @bmj.com recently. I know GP trainees who have done this too. Not all our younger doctors are leaving for Australia & NZ. Some are staying here but leaving the NHS. Somehow, the system has gone horribly wrong that this is happening. #MedSky

“The end of the liberal world order” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in conference rooms and lecture halls. But in war-ravaged Sudan, it’s a reality. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social traveled there and spoke with those who are living in this post-American world:

Finding consolation in trees. My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com. Just out. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Finding consolation in trees. My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com. Just out. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

BJGPLife: The clinician’s narrative and the patient’s narrative are ontologically equivalent bjgplife.com/the-cli... #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

Somehow this puts the #NHS 10 year plan in perspective.

A doctor writes: In case you're wondering, it's now officially too hot to do anything. Please stop unless you have no alternative.

It's important to identify frailty, but not at the expense of making people feel ever frailer. My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com, just out. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

It's important to identify frailty, but not at the expense of making people feel ever frailer. My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com, just out. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

UK to expand nuclear deterrent with US fighter jets capable of carrying warheads Starmer to unveil purchase of 12 F-35A jets that can deliver tactical nuclear weapons, which may be kept at RAF bases Expensive madness and what's independent about US warheads in US made planes? is.gd/ifJm1h

"Whether we’re doctors, scientists, or ordinary citizens, we need to be clear sighted—and to engage in whatever forms of resistance to authoritarianism we can find the courage to muster." @johnlauner.bsky.social on the dissolution of our global political landscape www.bmj.com/content/389/...

The NHS has put out an urgent call for 200,000 donors to come forward Giving blood is one of the most rewarding things you can do. Come & experience how good it feels to save lives. Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇 blood.co.uk

Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case in a televised address Tuesday evening that President Trump’s decisions to send military forces to immigration protests in Los Angeles have put the U.S. at the precipice of authoritarianism. https://trib.al/EpbF098

A hermeneutic approach to clinical leadership. A new paper from @sanjivahluwalia.bsky.social and team, bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...

Watched this on repeat today, everyone should see this. 🔥

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

If you don't get distracted by the Musk pantomime, the threats of Trump and his clique of other oligarchs remain the same: autocracy and the undermining of science and medicine. My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com

These are grim times. The media still depict current US events as politics as usual or entertainment. They are neither. In my latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com I explain why commentators are making comparisons with Stalin's Russia, Victorian England and feudalism. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

These are grim times. The media still depict current US events as politics as usual or entertainment. They are neither. In my latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com I explain why commentators are making comparisons with Stalin's Russia, Victorian England and feudalism. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

As many of us have said many times: the weaponization of antisemitism is the tip of the spear for the fascists. They are using cases of antisemitism, real and false, to implement their illiberal agenda. The main reason being that liberals are less likely to fight it in that context.

In other news: all-out nuclear war soon looks increasingly likely. You read it here first. And possibly also last. Posterity (if there were to be any) would find it hard to believe it all happened so casually. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Today's tree: I used to consider the Robinia tree (False Acacia) an inferior form of ash because the leaves are similar, but in summer they burst into these beautiful cascades of flowers. This one is on London's Parliament Hill.

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today's tree: The famous Plane tree in Kos town, under which Hippocrates is said to have taught medicine. It's apparently too young, but could just possibly be a descendant of the original tree. (P.S. I haven't been posting daily trees for the past weeks as we've been on our travels but now back.)

I heard him the facility commander explaining: 'The top brass is saying that Sde Teiman is being called a cemetery.' Still, the Israeli media and the public are deliberately ignoring the sickening big picture that is the detention center www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Lactose intolerance?

Are we training a generation of young GPs who will end up giving botox injections and working in private cosmetic and wellbeing clinics? Increasingly, it seems that way. My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com, just out. www.bmj.com/content/389/...