A view from the front lines of Nigeria’s Lassa Fever outbreak
Lassa fever is a deadly viral hemorrhagic disease in the same broad family as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Dengue and Yellow fever. Lassa fever causes...
Are you a Stiffy or a Bendy?
Sammy Margo says she would rather be a stiffy. When a patient walks into my clinic for the first time, I tend to automatically clock...
Self-regulation in later life. Doctors get old too!
Now that I am reaching a certain seniority in terms of age, I am aware that there will come a time when self-regulation falters. This...
Telementoring in surgery is a global revolution
MATTU, the UK’s first International Centre of Telemedicine based at Surrey University and the Royal Surrey County Hospital, has telementoring facilities that links to hospitals...
Why I want to drop dead healthy – and I probably will
Most people know that I am a vociferous campaigner against added sugar in our diet. I have been arguing for a sugar tax to be...
Vaping – is the jury still out?
Is vaping the solution for smokers who want to quit? We know that many people have successfully used e-cigarettes to quit smoking. The Medicines and...
Liquids from e-cigarettes can be detrimental to health
“Smoking” of e-cigarettes results in the evaporation of so-called liquids, which represent solutions of certain ingredients. The liquid is heated by means of a battery-operated mechanism, which...
The Anatomy of Doubt
Why we need to start talking about doubt in medical school. In recent weeks, in the aftermath of Jeremy Hunt’s decision to force through new...
The war is over… now the battle against combat stress begins
Two major military campaigns came to an end in the last decade. In 2006, British forces pulled out of Iraq and Britain’s 13-year peacekeeping operation in...
Hearing aids are still not cool
One in six people in the UK are deaf or hard of hearing and the majority are older people who develop hearing loss as a...
