Save the NHS
A Father’s Day curry at home in muggy Derbyshire afforded me yet again the opportunity to attempt to field answers to a medic’s least favourite...
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Patient case studies
A young man in his early 30s was brought to A&E in a large London Hospital after calling NHS Direct and reporting extreme tenderness and...
To Carry on Regardless?
I don't love my job as a "Junior Doctor"; indeed there are ever diminishing moments I love but there are parts of it I would...
Musings of a GP
I am a GP at a busy NHS practice in Greater London. During a busy day, I see around 40 patients for five to ten minutes...
Medical advice, unsweetened — is medical paternalism a problem?
In a now much-shared clip from a recent Daily Politics broadcast, two school girls were seen to take the veteran reporter Andrew Neil to task...
We need to take stock of vending machines in A&E departments
Over my career I have spent many thousands of hours in A&E departments working on shift to care for sick or hurt children. I, along...
Who is bullying whom?
Bullying – Definition = to use superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, typically to force them to do something. It started in July with...
Bedbaths and walking sticks
I used to dream about being a nurse. There was me, in my nice little fantasy world, dressed in lilac with a frilly lace cap...
The Junior doctors strike – It’s a woman’s thing!
The days when Sir Lancelot Spratt and his ilk of paternal Greats in NHS hospitals flirted with nurses and shouted at Junior Housemen are long gone....
