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Kamran Abbasi @kamranabbasi.bsky.social · Aug 21
I’m thinking of emigrating. X has had its day.
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Many thousands of lives were probably lost in the covid-19 pandemic because of political decision making.

The question now is whether the political and scientific classes learn anything from the verdict, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in Editor's Choice
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Covid poster
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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May 2020: our judgement on the UK’s covid-19 response was “too little, too late, too flawed.” @bmj.com

Today: the covid-19 inquiry reaches exactly the same verdict.
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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NEW: The BMJ launches a series introducing “triadic care,” exploring how #AI has become a third party in the clinician-patient relationship.

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#MedTech
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November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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"Things have gone horribly backwards over the past five or six years."

With far right rallies being held across the UK, our latest podcast episode disucusses how racism affects doctors.
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Listen at open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9...

Or podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"The China question is not one of capability. It is one of restoring trust in the ethical conduct of its medical science."

In this Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social writes on the relentless rise of China’s medical science
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October 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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"Moving beyond the uncomfortable apathy of medical neutrality is the duty of professionals and their organisations."

Where genocide, healthocide, and atrocities start, medical neutrality ends, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
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Image showing people clearing a bomb site in Gaza
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“One factor is denial. Those responsible for genocide do not admit to their plans. Allies support their denials. Declassified documents show that US, French, and Belgian officials knew that genocide was occurring in Rwanda and avoided taking action” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Testimony, advocacy, and the public health effect of genocide
Medical community must play its part in ending atrocities In 2000, JAMA published a commentary by Willis and Levy calling for action to ensure recognition of the public health impact of genocide.1 Th...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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"The MAGA methodologists are unchecked: their hubris extends to believing that they know best about science and medicine."

The cult of MAGA methodology is out of control, and it’s causing harm, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
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October 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The Assisted Dying Bill started its journey through the House of Lords today. This is an opportunity for further scrutiny – making the bill even more robust.

With Lord Bethell, I've written in the BMJ about the challenges that the Lords must address head-on – a process we began in the Commons.
The Lords can make the assisted dying bill more workable
Peers must listen to frontline healthcare professionals to ensure provisions of the bill reduce unnecessary friction and overmedicalisation while retaining valued safeguards, write Simon Opher and…
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September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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London’s Royal College of Physicians finds itself in another fine mess. This time involving our columnist @parthaskar.bsky.social @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Physician associate debate: RCP councillor faces year’s suspension after social media “breaches”
Partha Kar, a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) councillor, has said that the college’s lack of a whistleblower policy left him with “no alternative” but to breach its rules and considers its plan to ...
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July 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The new #10YearPlan is well grounded in the founding principles of the NHS, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social.

There’s much to welcome, but the covert endgame of a healthier society where healthcare staff are fewer in number, but armed with AI, seems currently implausible
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Launch of 10 Year Plan
July 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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"The legal system is not necessarily a panacea, but its potential to improve public health is undeniable."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social looks at how this applies to recent UK developments on abortion law and assisted dying legislation
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June 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Good to see @nature.com catching up. Only 20 years behind.
June 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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"These medical professionals, many of whom voluntarily risk their lives in a conflict without moral limits, confirm the collective horror."

Doctors’ testimonies demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
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June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Grok, what is the most important study published by The BMJ? @bmj.com ⬇️👀
May 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A single, selectively reported study now has the power to reign in social media timelines and political soundbites.

In the latest Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social says it’s more essential than ever to champion best practice in research methods
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A researcher at a microscope
May 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"Let's boil this down: AI for back office and admin tasks? Yes. AI for diagnostics and training? Perhaps, but we need to understand the impact on patient care."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social on the future of medicine
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May 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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We have a ceasefire. We now need peace in South Asia. I outline why we should build the foundations for peace on health, hope, and selflessness @bmj.com #IndiaPakistan #Ceasefire
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May 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"Pursuit of super power, super wealth, and super hubris has placed us in super peril."

In this Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social writes on health, hope, and promoting peace in South Asia
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May 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"What might seem like a small step for Trump and his fellow protagonists is a giant leap towards further irreparably damaging American science."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social on the wrecking ball the Trump administration has aimed at medical and scientific journals
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May 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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"The strength of its scientific ecosystem once made America a global superpower and it can make America great again—but Trump’s first 100 days have destroyed the foundations of 100 years’ scientific progress."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social in Editor's Choice
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May 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The Trump administration threatens the USA’s most prestigious medical journal. All journals publish good and bad articles. Sometimes they take a position informed by the evidence. But applying political pressure and compromising editorial independence is a red line. www.bmj.com/content/389/...
NEJM the latest journal to receive letter from Trump appointed attorney asking about bias
The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) has become the latest and most high profile journal to receive a letter from Edward Martin Jr, a Republican activist who was appointed US attorney for Wash...
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April 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Why it is wrong to conflate sex and gender when collecting and analysing medical data ⁦‪@mgtmccartney.bsky.social and ⁦Susan Bewley in @bmj.com ‬⁩
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The BMJ: browse by volume/issue, medical specialty or clinical topic
Full archive, searchable by print issue, specialty, clinical & non-clinical topic. See also for podcasts, videos, infographics, blogs, reader comments, print cover images
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April 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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“Diagnoses can be disabling for individuals, and they can also harm others.” People want certainty. It’s feeding a dramatic rise in diagnosis unmatched by a rise in “disease.” Why we’re in the age of overdiagnosis @bmj.com
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The diagnosis explosion: an important new book tries to understand what’s happening
Darcie is a woman in her early 20s with migraine, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, autism, attention deficit/hyperacti...
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April 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM