Weaknesses in governance led to avoidable mistakes, says Chris Ham, as the UK death toll passes 100,000 […]
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The emotional journey of the covid vaccine recipient
Mary Higgins reflects on how it feels to receive the covid-19 vaccination […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Marijuana in 1980 and the influence of the 60s
“Sexual intercourse”, wrote Philip Larkin in his poem Annus Mirabilis, “began / In nineteen sixty-three / (which was rather late for me) — / Between the end of the ‘Chatterley’ […]
The government promises to “level up” the UK—we struggle to see how they will succeed
The Westminster government has consistently shown little sign that it understands the structural weaknesses underlying the worsening health situation […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical words of the 1970s
During the final weeks of 2020 I explored biomedical words that were labelled in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as having first appeared in print in the years from 1970 […]
“Covid isolation discs”: how music can help our wellbeing
At the time of writing, covid lockdowns are tightening, and deaths are climbing. It is serious stuff as I know from working in ICU. We’re ten months in, and have […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2021
As last year, and previous years, my selected list of medical anniversaries in 2021, illustrated below, is restricted to multiples of 50 years (i.e. years ending in 21 and 71). […]
Daniel Sokol: The NHS is not at risk of being overwhelmed—it already is
For patients whose condition worsens as they wait in line, the NHS has already been overwhelmed, says Daniel Sokol […]
Happy covid Christmas…it’s a dog’s life
We have likely spent too much of 2020 believing our own thoughts, and striving to prove ourselves right. This unscientific tik was also on display when one of our family […]
Richard Smith: How to stop affluence destroying us
The starting point for John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Affluent Society is that for most of recorded history most people have been poor, meaning that they struggled to feed, clothe, […]