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Paul D Thacker: Climate change is a medical, not environmental story
When world leaders gathered in Madrid this December for the UN Climate Change Conference, there was a notable difference in media coverage of global warming. When I first started covering […]
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Rosanna Bevan: The forgotten children at Christmas
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Roghieh Dehghan Zaklaki: Run the NHS, but do not call the UK your home
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Sarah Markham: New Year’s Eve in the emergency department
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Richard Smith: The struggle to create a new craft of dying—what is medicine’s role?
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