Richard Smith
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Richard Smith's Degrees
- Masters Epidemiology London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Published Works
- Opening up BMJ peer review (1999) (166)
- The rights of patients in research (1995) (133)
- Authorship: time for a paradigm shift? (1997) (119)
- Evidence based medicine. (2006) (115)
- Audit and research. (1992) (106)
- Beyond conflict of interest. Transparency is the key. (1998) (103)
- The future of medicine (1994) (97)
- The war on drugs (1995) (73)
- The scientific basis of health services (1995) (69)
- Prehospital emergency care (1996) (64)
- The ethics of ignorance. (1992) (52)
- Rationing: the search for sunlight. (1991) (51)
- Filling the lacuna between research and practice: an interview with Michael Peckham. (1993) (40)
- Conflict of interest and the BMJ (1994) (38)
- Almost no evidence exists that the internet harms health. (2001) (38)
- Prisoners: an end to second class health care? (1999) (38)
- Moving beyond journals: the future arrives with a crash (1999) (36)
- Promoting research into peer review (1994) (35)
- Deception in research, and racial discrimination in medicine. (1993) (35)
- Regulation of doctors and the Bristol inquiry (1998) (34)
- Publishing information about patients (1995) (32)
- Medicine's core values (1994) (30)
- The firing of Brother George (1999) (30)
- Contemporary theme. Rationing: at the cutting edge. (1991) (30)
- What is publication? (1999) (28)
- Pleasing both authors and readers (1999) (28)
- NICE: a panacea for the NHS? (1999) (25)
- The NHS: possibilities for the endgame (1999) (25)
- Action on antimicrobial resistance (1998) (21)
- Medicine's need for kaizen. (1990) (21)
- Towards a knowledge based health service (1994) (21)
- From audit to quality and beyond. (1991) (15)
- The GMC on performance. (1992) (15)
- Questioning academic integrity (1994) (14)
- Doctors, unethical treatments, and turning a blind eye. (1989) (14)
- On not listening to patients. (1993) (13)
- Euthanasia: time for a royal commission. (1992) (12)
- The epidemiology of malpractice. (1990) (12)
- Profile of the GMC. Medical education and the GMC: controlled or stifled? (1989) (12)
- Chinese medical journals: getting in touch (1994) (12)
- Medicine and global survival. (1993) (11)
- First steps towards a strategy for health. (1991) (10)
- And now, evidence based editing (1995) (10)
- Dealing with sickness and incompetence: success and failure. (1989) (10)
- Injuries to common bile duct during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. (1991) (10)
- Radiotherapy's second setback. (1988) (9)
- Gap between death rates of rich and poor widens. (1997) (9)
- Repositioning self regulation (1998) (9)
- The importance of patients' consent for publication (1996) (9)
- Prison medicine: beginning again. (1992) (9)
- Viagra and rationing. Let the sunlight in, let the people speak. (1998) (8)
- Journals fail to adhere to guidelines on conflicts of interest. (2001) (8)
- Failures of prison HIV policies. (1991) (7)
- Charity Commission censures British cancer charities (1994) (7)
- How should European health policy develop? A discussion (1994) (6)
- The end of scientific journals? (1992) (6)
- The BMA in agony. (1991) (6)
- An NHS research strategy. (1991) (6)
- Preventing injuries in childhood (1994) (6)
- "Macho" management in the NHS. (1992) (5)
- Reconsidering compensation for medical accidents. (1992) (5)
- Academic medicine: plenty of room at the top. (1993) (5)
- Whistle blowing: a curse on ineffective organisations. (1992) (5)
- Obituaries: the future (1995) (5)
- Auditing BMJ decision making. (1993) (5)
- Doctors and climatic change (1994) (4)
- A meeting of rich and poor. (1992) (4)
- A national health research policy. (1988) (4)
- British government revamps screening policy (1994) (4)
- Workfare and health. (1993) (4)
- British government's proposals on poorly performing doctors (1995) (4)
- The Virus Covid-19 and Dilemmas of Online Technology (2020) (4)
- Strangling the future. (1991) (3)
- Poverty in the cradle. (1985) (3)
- Inequalities and the new Health Education Authority. (1987) (2)
- Pleasing both authors and readers. Summary of electronic responses. (1999) (2)
- Profile of the GMC: Overseas doctors: diminishing controversy. (1989) (2)
- Promoting sexual health. (1992) (2)
- Being bullish about medical research. (1989) (2)
- Overpopulation and overconsumption. Combating the two main drivers of global destruction [editorial] (1993) (2)
- Medical research in Australia. The nitty gritty: funding, reviewing, training, and communicating. (1991) (2)
- Life on the broad side: medical research. (1991) (2)
- Fiddling with medical negligence. (1992) (1)
- Vaccines and medicines for the worlds poorest. Public-private partnerships seem to be essential [editorial] (2000) (1)
- Does Britain need an academy of medicine? (1979) (1)
- Avoiding becoming the English Medical Journal (1999) (1)
- Getting "serious" about population. (1991) (1)
- Towards a sustainable future: encouraging corporate responsibility (2007) (1)
- Some words on conflict of interest. (2001) (0)
- Countering poor training within the NHS (1999) (0)
- GP elected as GMC president (1995) (0)
- Regional NHS profile. To flourish or fade: the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway. (1989) (0)
- Twists in the tale of impossible means. The editor invites everyone to dinner. (2000) (0)
- Does the patient know best? (1992) (0)
- Competing interests and controversy about third generation oral contraceptives. Editors reply [letter] (2000) (0)
- At last a strategy for British science. (1993) (0)
- Government wants doctors to report unfit colleagues (1995) (0)
- PFI rides again. We're still waiting. (2000) (0)
- AIDS strategy must pay more attention to human rights (1995) (0)
- Quality of randomised controlled trials in head injury. If in doubt, declare competing interests. (2000) (0)
- Smuggling of plutonium poses major health threat (1995) (0)
- BMJ journals free to the developing world [Editorial] (2002) (0)
- No stopping no fault. (1988) (0)
- Health Profile: Challenging doctors: an interview with England's chief medical officer (1994) (0)
- Science and medicine down under. (1991) (0)
- A meeting of rich and poor [editorial] (1992) (0)
- Doctors and markets. (1993) (0)
- Examining the inclusion of ethics and social issues in bioscience research: concepts of ‘reflection’ in science (2012) (0)
- Towards a global social contract [editorial] (2004) (0)
- EUTHANASIA : TIME FOR A ROYAL COMMISSION : THE TIDE SEEMS TO BE RUNNING FOR EUTHANASIA (1992) (0)
- Conflicts of interest. (2001) (0)
- Britain to boost competitiveness and science (1995) (0)
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