One body, many parts
The little things make a big difference. Your hammer and anvil are as valuable as your hand and your arm,…
NHS
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…
Save the NHS
A Father’s Day curry at home in muggy Derbyshire afforded me yet again the opportunity to attempt to field answers…
Flexible Careers Scheme for NHS Hospital Doctors
The Flexible Careers Scheme is a response to the Improving Working Lives Initiative, which aims to make the National Health…
Resolving ethical dilemmas in the NHS
Last week, a healthy baby was born from a woman who had been brain dead for nearly five months. The decision…
A national health concierge service
As a busy GP, I am fully aware and exposed to the everyday pressures faced by our National Health Service,…
Dear Doctor’s Diary: Work Made Me Cry
https://youtu.be/g-unp6ns3ms SHO medic Omar Hafeez-Bore is director/producer and founder of Short Sharp Productions. His honest, chatty one-minute films capture the…
Doctors at greater risk of depression
Sometimes very distressed doctors in the NHS do make the news – as with Daksha Emerson, a young psychiatrist who…
Legal headache for medics
I am a hospital doctor who is thinking about leaving the profession I love. It is not because I doubt my…