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Anger

Background Anger is a physiological and psychological response to external pressures stresses and frustration. Anger can make us snappy, irritable or argumentative. We all get...
Anger

Diabetes: myth vs reality

Myth: People with diabetes understand what to do when they are unwell Fact: Actually it’s best to give people with diabetes some simple sick day...
Diabetes: myth vs reality

Diabetes – the silent disease

The vast majority, probably over ninety per cent of cases of Type 2 diabetes are picked up in the GP surgery. You may go to...
Diabetes – the silent disease

Resolving ethical dilemmas in the NHS

Last week, a healthy baby was born from a woman who had been brain dead for nearly five months. The decision to keep the mother alive...
Resolving ethical dilemmas in the NHS

Familiarity breeds strong immune systems

TJ: In a recent article titled ‘’The future of neonatal BCG’’ (1), you suggest that, from bacteriological and immunological perspectives, there is no substitute for...
Familiarity breeds strong immune systems

A national health concierge service

As a busy GP, I am fully aware and exposed to the everyday pressures faced by our National Health Service, sadly witnessing the NHS stretching...
A national health concierge service

Sculpting the transgender body

Caitlyn Jenner in the US has helped to transform attitudes to transgender people and we are seeing the results in our surgery. Many more people...
Sculpting the transgender body

Type 1 diabetes care: Fearsome Four

If you took a step back and looked at the quality of care provided for folks with Type 1 diabetes, it’s perhaps quite easy to...
Type 1 diabetes care: Fearsome Four

Stem cell donation

The first treatment for all types of leukaemia is usually chemotherapy, a powerful drug treatment that kills the cancerous cells in the blood. Treatment can...
Stem cell donation