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Month: January 2018

Nick Hopkinson: Your life in my hands—review

January 19, 2018

Andrew Lansley had his calamitous Health and Social Care Act 2012; Kenneth Clarke introduced the wasteful and destructive NHS internal market before going off to work for British American Tobacco; […]

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Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Being one, two, or many

January 19, 2018

As I noted last week, animals are monophyodonts, diphyodonts, or polyphyodonts. Rodents and some cetaceans, for example, are monophyodonts—their teeth grow continuously and are never replaced. Humans, and most other […]

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Writing letters directly to patients puts them at the centre of their care

January 18, 2018

A clinic letter from a paediatric surgeon hit the headlines recently. Written to the child’s GP and copied to her parents, it began “Thank you for referring this lovely young […]

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Jeremy Taylor: There are reasons for patients to welcome Hunt’s return to the Department of Health and Social Care

January 17, 2018

What, as patients, are we to make of the re-appointment of Jeremy Hunt, yet again, to the government’s health brief? […]

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Ian Hamilton: Language alone cannot reduce the stigma that people who use drugs experience

January 17, 2018

The derogatory language we use to describe people who use drugs is merely a symptom of a deeper problem, says Ian Hamilton […]

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Paul Burstow: Social care is more than just speeding up hospital discharge

January 17, 2018

Jeremy Hunt remains at the helm of the Department of Health—an announcement that last week generated a largely predictable and mostly tribal response. By making Hunt the secretary of state […]

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Martin McKee: Too big to fail? The Carillion affair exposes wider failings of governance

January 17, 2018

Carillion, an outsourcing company that had become a major provider of support services in the NHS and other sectors of the economy has joined a select group of once great […]

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Richard Smith: The corruption of medical language

January 16, 2018

A young doctor friend sends me a link to a piece he has written in the Guardian newspaper. I praise the simplicity and clarity of the language and suggest that […]

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Kirsty Gadsby on delayed diagnosis: “I felt validated after years of feeling a fraud”

January 16, 2018

Listening to patients and thinking outside the box can make the difference between diagnosis and dismissal, says Kirsty Gadsby […]

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Charles Clift: Tedros is refreshingly honest about the deficiencies in WHO governance and financing

January 16, 2018

Will member states respond? The executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) will meet on 22-29 January. A key agenda item will be the latest draft of WHO’s 13th […]

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