Thank you for the review of our article. The PROMs used in the study correlated well with the clinical findings, both the Knee Society score and the Harris hip score, and while parts of those... Read More

The article by Stanger and colleagues on the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in an orthopaedic surgeon’s office [BCMJ 2016;58:82-89] made an unsubstantiated leap from the... Read More

It feels to me as though the world is becoming more and more openly callous and harsh. We have terrorists blowing up picnicking families because they were of the wrong faith in the wrong country. We... Read More

Dr Saul H. Isserow Dr Brett Heilbron The wide range in societal perceptions regarding the benefits of exercise, or lack thereof, is reflected in two famous comments:  “... Read More

I recently filled out a number of forms for one of my palliative patients. For those uninitiated in this process, there are quite a few boxes to complete, and in my case I forgot to enter the... Read More