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 […]
Students
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 […]
Kayte McCann on dealing with the death of a close family member
Dealing with the death of a close family member, whether expected or otherwise, is perhaps one of the most harrowing things you can deal with. Doug Kamerow dealt with the […]
Neil Chanchlani: The silent killer
For most of us, it’s textbook – chills, fever, and phlegm. We know the impending list of causes and antibiotic management regimes off by heart, but what we don’t know […]
Neil Graham on the dangers of advertising abortion advice
In May Channel 4 broadcast a television advertisement for the sexual and reproductive health charity Marie Stopes. The charity says that its aim is to prevent unintended pregnancies and unwanted […]
Frances Dixon on medical education about menstruation
A couple of weeks ago my year-group had to plan and carry out an experiment as part of our teaching. I won’t bother going into details, but this experiment involved […]
Vaibhav Gupta on starting medical school
It was like going to a black tie event, except some people were in shorts and some dressed casually, with only a few holding up the proclaimed dress code (some […]
Joe Collier: Sharing intellectual space
In a recent blog I suggested that relationships between students and teachers will have been changed in those medical schools where students address the staff by their first names. As […]
Jonny Martell: The magic of alternative medicine
I was working next to a world renowned psychic and spiritual healer in the healing sanctuary of a music festival. This made me nervous: my own training in complementary medicine […]