“Are you ashamed of yourself now?” This was a patient’s response when her doctor wanted to start her on a statin. Every week I work with up to 30 General […]
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Katherine Sievert, Suong Le, Paul O’Neill: Engaging new migrant populations—a lesson in humility
Our Rohingyan community leader sits with us in Springvale Community Centre, Melbourne, Australia, educating us on what he perceives as the major risks for the transmission of hepatitis B virus […]
Alex Langford: The media stigmatise mental health problems
The anguish and despair caused by a public tragedy can be overwhelming. At such times the natural human response is to try to make sense of events, which allows us […]
Peter Thomson: Standing up for the rights of migrants and refugees in Europe
Recently I had the opportunity to watch a special screening of “Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis” supported by Doctors of the World UK. Originally shown on the BBC in March, […]
Rosanna O’ Keeffe: A week in Calais
My teenage patient presents with a cough, fever, and a sore throat. This sounds like an ordinary, everyday consultation in general practice. The only difference is that this time the […]
Ruth Bonnington: Thoughts on the NHS from a GP
As I sit at the bedside of my dying father at 04h30 in a small palliative care unit in the Scottish Borders I wonder about lots of things and about […]
Martin McKee: What will happen to EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit?
One of the few things that almost everyone, whichever side of the Brexit argument they are on, can agree on is that the NHS would face severe problems if the […]
Jane Parry: Without incentives, health data sharing systems don’t work for patients
In the multi-payer systems that characterize primary health care in Asia and the Pacific, both developed and developing countries suffer a way of delivering care that works against data sharing. […]
Mark Porter: The NHS and a £350m lie
It was a lie. A big lie strewn down the side of a battlebus. A lie, knowingly and cynically peddled, of which there was nothing left but a bad smell […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: Survival is a Myth
The Doctors’ Book Club Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See Rich men, trust not in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health; Physic himself must fade. All things to […]