I am worried that we are heading right back to the very conditions that led to the Francis inquiries, losing any progress we have gained on the back of them. […]
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Joseph O’Keeffe: The junior doctors’ strike—voices from the ward
Junior doctors are arguing that the contract changes compromise patient safety. I agree. But do those we treat? It’s hard to tell. Social media appears dominated by the junior doctors, […]
Jane Parry: Organ donation is an emotive topic, and rightly so
Recently, there was a very moving piece in The Guardian about a doctor’s experience of a family donating their dead child’s organs for transplant. It got me thinking about organ […]
Duncan Steele: To strike or not to strike
To strike or not to strike, that is the question we have all asked ourselves over the last few months. To walk away from our patients, albeit to leave them […]
Elizabeth Wortley: And strike I did
Yesterday I did not cross a picket line. I don’t yet know the figures for how many junior doctors did choose to work, aside from those who were unable to […]
Richard Smith: The deeper causes of the doctors’ strike—a thought experiment
I’m on my way to walk among bluebells, but my mind is on junior doctors engaging in a total strike, not providing even emergency care, for the first time in […]
Michelle Sinclair on the GP forward view
It’s not about the money sings Jesse J. Well yes, actually, it is. The release this week of the General Practice Forward View sounds good, doesn’t it? £2.4bn recurrent investment […]
Taryn Youngstein: “No doctor wants to strike”
Ethical dilemmas are the essences of medicine. As doctors, we frequently have to act in our patient’s best interests; when they are confused, demented, or suicidal for example. We have […]
Richard Smith: The NHS is a fiction, but what’s the story?
Ask somebody “What is the NHS?” and they are likely to answer to “The people who work in it, the buildings they work in, and the tools they use to […]
Elizabeth Wortley: Should I strike?
I am in a moral quandary, I am in a personal quandary, and I am in a professional quandary. I cannot answer the question “Should I strike?” As a doctor, I’m […]