Care Home Cast Away
In Cast Away, the epic survival drama film, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is stranded on a deserted tropical island for…
Helen Cowan
Wheels of Misfortune
Wheelchair travel by land, sea and sky; easier would it be that a camel pass through a needle’s eye. The…
All the colours of wound care
Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black: not the potting order for the coloured balls in snooker, but the colours…
No good deed will go unpunished
In the latest Tom Hanks movie, Pilot Sully was a hero as he landed the aircraft on the Hudson River,…
Back from the brink
I’ve been resuscitated three times in my life. As a nurse, I’ve attended countless resuscitation attempts. I’ve also attempted to…
Engineering solutions for Michael Schumacher
My dad was the chief engine designer for the Benetton engine that won Michael Schumacher his first world championship, something…
Stained By A Snowflake
Snowflakes have been described as ‘tiny miracles of beauty’. Wilson Alwyn “Snowflake” Bentley photographed more than 5000 in his lifetime,…
Till death, or the nursing home, us do part?
“For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death us do part”. These are…
One body, many parts
The little things make a big difference. Your hammer and anvil are as valuable as your hand and your arm,…
Where have all the nurses gone?
Adrift and deserted, the disappearance of the crew from the Mary Celeste remains a mystery. Walking onto a hospital ward…
Misdiagnosis: a personal story
There’s a condition that most doctors have never heard of, yet the group of patients that it affects are most…
Is a baby worth more than an old man?
Is your beginning worth more than your end? Helplessness defines both ends of life: our need to be washed, fed,…