To most doctors psoriasis is a disease to be fought, contained, and even cured, but is this far too narrow a view? John Updike, one of the greatest writers in […]
Patient and public perspectives
Tessa Richards: When doctors and patients disagree
The Ashya King case has gone global, and in the UK is assuming Mid Staffordshire proportions. The law, as interpreted, would appear to have totally overlooked the best interests of […]
Jo Bibby: The healthcare decisions we make should be personal
As the summer holidays draw to a close, thousands of people up and down the country will have found out whether the hours and months spent meticulously researching the best […]
Neal Maskrey: Tipping the balance towards individualised care
I don’t really get the horror genre. Even as a young boy, the flaky plots and a world working to different rules than the one I was becoming more familiar […]
Barry Main et al: Bringing informed consent back to patients
Every day around the world, thousands of operations are undertaken. In the days and weeks leading up to these procedures, surgeons and their patients discuss the goals of surgery, expected […]
Tessa Richards: Go with the flow
Legend has it that the Anglo-Saxon king Canute believed his command could hold back the tide. Last week, Financial Times columnist Robert Shrimsley conjured up Canute’s image, as he describes how […]
Alison Cameron: Coming out of the box
I acquired a new label recently. I was named by the Health Service Journal as one of 50 “inspirational women” in healthcare. Quite something for someone who is not in the […]
Halima Khan: People powered health—one year on
What links a social prescription in Newcastle, a peer retreat in Lambeth, and a neighbourhood network in Leeds? Well, these were three of the six frontline teams in the People Powered […]
Nicola Lane: From Facebook to film—the journey of the fitting room friends
If you rely on a prosthetic limb for your everyday mobility then you will need to visit a limb fitting centre throughout your whole life. In 1968, I lost my […]
Michael Seres: A patient included conference with a difference
Often health events, conferences, and meetings say that they include patients and they do. Well, sort of. They have patients there except they are not really there. The Doctors 2.0 & […]