My patient refused to go into hospital – until I saw the poster on his wall
Gaining Daryl’s consent to examination was one thing, getting his agreement to be admitted quite another.
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Edie’s vision was clouded with white lights – and her doctors were blind to the problem
I had every sympathy with Edie’s GP and optician – it was a very strange symptom.
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What Gareth’s bottom lump says about the need for gender-neutral immunisation
From 2015, there were mounting calls for the HPV vaccine to be administered to all children irrespective of gender, as is…
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An affair of the heart where you don’t want to miss a beat
It is estimated that in England alone, some 425,000 people have unsuspected atrial fibrillation.
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The Nobel Peace Prize would be an insult to Greta Thunberg
It’s easy to hand out prizes – much harder to actually take action against climate change.
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Why would the government make its own drugs?
Labour’s policy makes Big Pharma nervous, but health economists see it as relatively uncontroversial.
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How austerity is linked to a decade-long rise in the use of addictive prescription drugs
Ten years ago I could get physiotherapy appointments in weeks; now people wait months. As we struggle to control their pain,…
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Health is about exercise and green veg. But if you’ve had an eating disorder, it’s not that easy
A desire to change your body could drag all of that history back.
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