I’m not the type to stay at hospital placement all day long, looking around for things to do. Don’t get me wrong; I do the basics: go to lectures, attend […]
Students
Emily Arthurs: Five year survival
Having gone through a tough five years, following on from a previous four year science degree, I was all set to finally finish being a student. With nine years of […]
Richard Smith: Medical schools to close?
Until now medical schools have had it easy. They have lots of high quality applicants, most students graduate, and all of them can find jobs. Suddenly, as for many others […]
Neil Graham: Don’t underestimate your audience, science journalists
Reading science blogger Martin Robbins’ meticulously observed, not to mention witty article “This is a news website article about a scientific paper“, I was overcome by a warm, fraternal feeling. It […]
Alexander Romain on NHS sponsored homeopathy
NHS sponsored homeopathy is being financially strangled amidst the baying cries of clinicians. In the ritualistic chanting of “placebo” and “evidence based medicine” they gleefully recapitulate the paucity of evidence […]
Beth Cherryman: A graduate tax
Business secretary Vince Cable has proposed a “graduate tax” as a solution to university funding. Graduates will be taxed according to some percentage of their income (once earning over £15,000 […]
James Clark on health provision for asylum seekers
The person I was speaking to turned to me with tears in her eyes and whispered, in her broken English: “I’m scared. I been scared for so long.” I had […]
Kayte McCann on health inequalities
If I were to ask you what the primary care trusts of Gateshead, Lambeth, Rotherham, Liverpool and Tower Hamlets had in common, what would you say? […]
Anna Mead Robson: Psychiatry – a specialty for failures?
I once met a medical student who had failed his first year exams. “It’s ok,” he said, as I tried to console him. “I know I’m not very bright, but […]
Kayte McCann: Standing up for science
Are we standing up for science, or have we all become so laid back about it that the very basis of medicine and research are now lost to us? Earlier […]