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Climate change is something that everyone needs to take seriously, and healthcare professionals are no exception. The global weather this summer should make us all stop and think. As well […]
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If no-one knows how much work is being done and the toll it takes, then it becomes impossible to define how much workload is safe for a GP to do […]
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Last week I discussed the many different compounds that have a steroid skeleton at their core. However, in clinical parlance we use the term “steroids” to refer almost exclusively to […]
Peter Brindley: Trust me with your death?
It’s a favorite quip of mine, but usually elicits little more than eye rolls. I ask medical trainees if they enjoy reading fiction, and if they reply “yes” then I […]
Holiday hunger requires radical long term solutions
The rise in food aid is the predictable result of policies that have taken away from those who had least to begin with […]
The long road to justice for Hadiza Bawa-Garba
Jenny Vaughan discusses the implications of this case and what we must learn from it […]
Matt Morgan: Time to stop serving the “shit sandwich”
If you have attended an Advanced Life Support course, you will be familiar with the so-called “shit sandwich.” Despite electrocuting yourself with the defibrillator, tripping over the ECG cables and […]
Richard Smith: Modern doctors should pay more attention to lovesickness
In this book The Incurable Romantic: and Other Unsettling Revelations Frank Tallis, a psychotherapist proposes that modern psychotherapists and doctors can learn from the ancients about the disabling conditions of […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . A spectrum of steroids
Last week I discussed the origins of the words “sterol” and “steroid”. Today we use the term “steroids” to refer almost exclusively to endogenous compounds that are secreted in the […]