Unconscious competence

By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Last night I dreamed of a consultation. It wasn’t a real patient that I was recalling but rather an amalgamation of patient stories from the day that had infiltrated my subconscious. […]

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Be complex, be palliative

By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Reporting for The Palliative Times, Our guest reporter Dr Oje Snawkih writes: The new advert for palliative medicine trainees has been a huge success. This follows a dramatic fall in training […]

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