Talk of swine flu seems to have died down considerably since the launch of the national flu pandemic service in England last week. Despite the lack of news generally, it’s […]
Year: 2009
Louise Kenny: Lost for words
It wasn’t until the last couple of weeks that I began to have terrible, panic-stricken nightmares about my dreadful communication skills. I wake in a trembling state, sweating because I […]
Annabel Bentley: Pregnancy and swine flu: facemasks and self imprisonment?
If you’re pregnant lock yourself in the house, shut the curtains and wear a facemask if you so much as put your nose outside the door… has advice to pregnant […]
Liz Wager: Spreading the word
A journal editor told me he was once asked to act as an expert witness defending a doctor accused of negligence for failing to diagnose a rare condition. The defence […]
Tom Nolan: Critical care and the pandemic panic
A pandemic of panic A “panic pandemic” is worsening the crisis in the UK said health ministers over the weekend. Andy Burnham, the health secretary, told The Observer of the […]
Miriam Longmore: Iran puts MTAS in its place
Iran has done what the United Kingdom has not dared: it has devised a single exam to be taken by its 20,000 doctors who are competing for 1600 residency positions. […]
Sneeze and Click service launched in England
Last week 100,000 people are estimated to have had swine flu in the UK. 840 are in hospital and 63 are in intensive care according to Chief Medical Officer Sir […]
Frances Dixon ends year one at medical school
So, one year of medical school finished, just five more to go. What have I learnt this year? As well as a load of useful medical things, and how to […]
Harry Brown on planned changes to Connecting for Health
Medicine and leading edge technologies have always gone hand in hand over the years, and with the recent explosion of information technologies, medical practice has certainly been at the forefront. […]
Tom Nolan: Prescribing antivirals – is beyond 48 hours too late?
After Monday’s statement to the House of Commons from Andy Burnham (you can watch all ten hours of the commons session here), the RCGP emailed members to summarise this and […]