Palliative Category

Opioid addiction fuelled by painkillers

Ageing, Cancer, Paediatrics
Treat sunshine with caution
It’s wonderful that so many people are enjoying the April heat wave but brilliant sunshine should be treated with caution. Yes, we need some exposure to UV rays to synthesise …
Junior Doctors, Mental Health, NHS, Nursing, Royal Society of Medicine
Empathy makes you a better doctor
It’s just common sense that doctors who have empathy make better doctors. However, until now, the benefit to patients has not been quantified, which makes it difficult for doctors and …
Cancer, Events, Infection/Disease, Medico-Legal, NHS
Follow NICE guidance and test for Lynch
NICE guidelines published last year recommended that all bowel cancer patients should be tested at diagnosis for signs of Lynch syndrome but we know that this isn’t happening in eight …
Events, Lifestyle, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Women's Health
‘Solitary Pleasures’ – Sigmund Freud on Masturbation …
“We are all agreed on one thing – that the subject of masturbation is quite inexhaustible.” (Sigmund Freud, 1912, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society). Until 13th May, The Freud Museum, London, presents Solitary …
Lifestyle, Uncategorised, Video
Heat wave by British Pathe
How Londoners coped with a Heat Wave back in 1952.