We arrive in Haiti during the second night after the earthquake, and the scenes of destruction and devastation are overwhelming. We are silent as we went our way through the […]
Guest writers
Louise Warburton: It seemed a small request
It seemed a small request; please would I phone a patient who had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and had been thinking of breast reconstruction. I had made myself […]
Mike Clarke: COMET features on International Clinical Trials Day
May 20 2010 was International Clinical Trials Day, a celebration of the clinical trial as a means of improving health and wellbeing. This was the sixth such day and it […]
Martin McShane: Shared Care
Over the last year NHS Lincolnshire has instituted a clinical cabinet, a meeting where professionals from across the health and social care system meet to grapple with an important theme […]
Julian Sheather: Why am I frightened of doctors?
Reader I am not a shrinking violet, not a wuss or a whimp. When friends seek to describe me, pusillanimous is not the first adjective they choose. For all its […]
Andrew Burd: What is cosmetic surgery?
Following on from the recent local discussion about safety in the cosmetic surgical community in Hong Kong I have been asked to give a talk on “Cosmetic Surgery Trends and […]
Sara Robbins: Bringing health care to those in desperate need on our doorstep
It’s Wednesday afternoon, and I head over to the Project:London (P:L) clinic where I volunteer as a support worker. I begin my first social consultation with Prisca*, a South African woman […]
Joe Knight on health scares and teenagers
Being a teenager and being healthy are two things you hope can go hand in hand. However while your mind is tirelessly trained by the finest educators in the land, […]
Siddhartha Yadav on young people at Women Deliver 2010
Last week, more than 3,000 global leaders working in the field of maternal and reproductive health gathered in Washington, D.C for the Women Deliver 2010 conference. With the theme of […]
Peter Arnold: I don’t know
“I don’t know.” Three truthful little words which we doctors don’t seem to be able to say to our patients. Why not? Have we joined our patients in believing that […]