First Aid in an age of terrorism
Would you know what to do if you were first on the scene of a terrorist outrage where dozens of people were injured and dying?...
Tag: palliative care
Post-mastectomy recovery diet
When I had my double mastectomy in February 2015, following a diagnosis of breast cancer, there was very limited information out there about how diet...
Reassuring AMD patients
Around one in every 2,000 people has Age-related Macular Degeneration at 60. However, by the age of 90 it affects one person in five. We...
Starvation in hospitals
Nurse Helen Cowan talks about starvation, dehydration and death in hospitals. “Kill by mouth” read a recent headline in the Sun newspaper. Readers were informed that...
Longer immunotherapy for hay fever
Immunotherapy, which was first trialled on hay fever patients in London in 1911, has an excellent record in helping reduce allergy symptoms. But how long...
Care Home Cast Away
In Cast Away, the epic survival drama film, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is stranded on a deserted tropical island for four years, with a volleyball...
Hospice care UK and the US
Since the opening of the first modern hospice, St. Christopher’s, in south London in 1967, hospice care has grown into a worldwide movement that has...
What we can do to die well | Timothy Ihrig
The healthcare industry in America is so focused on pathology, surgery and pharmacology -- on what doctors "do" to patients -- that it often overlooks...
The whole story of hormones
Hormones, which are produced in endocrine glands throughout the body, regulate our metabolism, our sex lives and even our moods. If hormone balance is disturbed for any...
Empathy is crucial in medicine
It does concern me when I see a nurse brushing off a patient or ignoring little signs of distress. It doesn’t happen often, but compassion...
