{"title":"Leprosy: Jordan becomes first country to eliminate disease.","authors":"Jacqui Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142275302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alistair Adams, an ophthalmic surgeon, was renowned among friends and colleagues for his imagination and inventiveness. A skilled eye surgeon, he claimed to be the first in Scotland to perform laser surgery for short sightedness, a common procedure today. “After more than 100 of these procedures, with principled firmness, he concluded that changing the corneal shape for refractive convenience was not the best use of a surgeon’s time,” says Hector Chawla, his long term colleague and collaborator at the Edinburgh Eye Pavilion. Adams told Scotland on Sunday in 2004 that he was sceptical about techniques to alleviate short sightedness. “I have a question mark over the long term results and I think there may well be complications which we haven’t suspected,” he said. He instead worked with Chawla to develop a method for small incision cataract surgery that did not require temperamental technology. This was an evolution …
{"title":"Alistair Adams: ophthalmologist whose inventiveness and dexterity led to a new type of cataract surgery","authors":"Rebecca Wallersteiner","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2042","url":null,"abstract":"Alistair Adams, an ophthalmic surgeon, was renowned among friends and colleagues for his imagination and inventiveness. A skilled eye surgeon, he claimed to be the first in Scotland to perform laser surgery for short sightedness, a common procedure today. “After more than 100 of these procedures, with principled firmness, he concluded that changing the corneal shape for refractive convenience was not the best use of a surgeon’s time,” says Hector Chawla, his long term colleague and collaborator at the Edinburgh Eye Pavilion. Adams told Scotland on Sunday in 2004 that he was sceptical about techniques to alleviate short sightedness. “I have a question mark over the long term results and I think there may well be complications which we haven’t suspected,” he said. He instead worked with Chawla to develop a method for small incision cataract surgery that did not require temperamental technology. This was an evolution …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142275873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two US women died because of a lack of abortion care, report says.","authors":"Janice Hopkins Tanne","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142275313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partha Kar: We need honest, sensible conversation about physician associates-not false promises.","authors":"Partha Kar","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142275303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When I use a word . . . Linguistic barbarisms in medicine.","authors":"Jeffrey K Aronson","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142275308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UK must act to protect children from risks of air pollution, say paediatricians.","authors":"Gareth Iacobucci","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142275309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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