Doctors Burning Out
New research led by George Lewith, Professor of Health Research at the University of Southampton suggests doctors’ burnout should be…
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Doctors need empathy
Empathy in clinical practice is an essential component of the doctor-patient relationship. This is the understanding of how another human…
The NHS is bracing itself for the toughest winter in a decade
Not only is it treating more patients than ever before, but A&E performance in the UK has slumped to a…
Pancreatic cancer: Improving outcomes
Pancreatic cancer has no early warning signs and the majority of people with this disease present with acute symptoms such…
Why did you get cancer?
I am a father of someone who had cancer. My daughter, Bryony, died in 2004 when she was 23 after…
A checklist for life
'When it comes to safety for patients in the operating theatre, it’s not always the ‘big spends’ that make the…
Brexit and the future of UK medical research
We are now living in a post-Brexit world. On the 23rd June 2016, we as a nation decided to leave…
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…
A Blind-Spot
A medical education in the UK is a very specific affair. There are some facts that of course are global,…
Why multiple jeopardy is wrong
Despite having observed at first hand the effects of patient complaint procedures against doctors for several years now, I have…
Destructive Innovation creates a wasteland
The wasteland created by the political class post-Brexit is the ultimate expression of a deluded mantra which has gradually been eroding…