A Father’s Day curry at home in muggy Derbyshire afforded me yet again the opportunity to attempt to field answers to a medic’s least favourite question of all: have you thought about a speciality, yet? As always, I churned out the same old answer about it being early days, that I am interested in many […]
A Father’s Day curry at home in muggy Derbyshire afforded me yet again the opportunity to attempt to field answers to a medic’s least favourite question of all: have you thought about a speciality, yet? As always, I churned out the same old answer about it being early days, that I am interested in many […]
It was little over two weeks past that I found myself in Sackville Park in the centre of Manchester next to the statue of Alan Turing after having put pen to paper for the final time for this, my third year at medical school. Having sent a baggy-eyed, sun-starved looking selfie to the small number of people who care, […]
It was little over two weeks past that I found myself in Sackville Park in the centre of Manchester next to the statue of Alan Turing after having put pen to paper for the final time for this, my third year at medical school. Having sent a baggy-eyed, sun-starved looking selfie to the small number of people who care, […]
In a now much-shared clip from a recent Daily Politics broadcast, two school girls were seen to take the veteran reporter Andrew Neil to task about the sugar tax budget announcement, whilst he fought for the public right to ‘break the rules’. The girls eloquently fielded success statistics regarding the implementation of seat belts in […]
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In a now much-shared clip from a recent Daily Politics broadcast, two school girls were seen to take the veteran reporter Andrew Neil to task about the sugar tax budget announcement, whilst he fought for the public right to ‘break the rules’. The girls eloquently fielded success statistics regarding the implementation of seat belts in […]
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Could somebody please just tell me what’s going on? As we speak, in the hallowed halls of medical schools up and down the country, almost every scrap of traditional didactic delivery is being ‘innovated’ out of the curriculum and medical education is dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty first century. Teaching is being stripped down […]
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Could somebody please just tell me what’s going on? As we speak, in the hallowed halls of medical schools up and down the country, almost every scrap of traditional didactic delivery is being ‘innovated’ out of the curriculum and medical education is dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty first century. Teaching is being stripped down […]
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