Masks and hearing lossFace masks muffle the low amplitude, high frequency sounds generated by the pronunciation of consonants, which makes oral communication vulnerable to misunderstanding—especially…
We live in an ever more divided world. Divisions between rich and poor, privileged and vulnerable, were already growing before the pandemic. With the virus’s predilection […]
McLachlan and Fleming make valid points about the struggles of medical training.1 But they are wrong to blame the “in my dayers” for “telling current trainees […]
The newly created NHS Race and Health Observatory has appointed some of the world’s leading experts on health inequalities to its board of non‐executive directors.The observatory, […]