The days when Sir Lancelot Spratt and his ilk of paternal Greats in NHS hospitals flirted with nurses and shouted at Junior Housemen are long gone. The male/female divide between doctors and nurses is a thing of the past. There are more women than men training to be medics in medical schools and women are even dominating […]
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The other day I managed to fall off my bike. It was quite a spectacular fall where I flew straight over the handlebars and landed rather ungracefully onto my shoulder and back. While worried strangers were attempting to untangle me from my mess, my head was running through where potential pain was coming from. Luckily […]
Baroness Mary Warnock has contributed to public thinking and policy in many ways, most notably the moral implications of the reproductive technology, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). In recent years she has regularly lectured on the Society of Apothecaries’ course in philosophy and ethics applied to medicine and healthcare. Here, she talks to Andrew Papanikitas MRCGP […]
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Wangchuk Rapten, 24, is a paramedic and outreach health worker in the Highlands of Nepal as well as being a Buddhist monk who follows the teachings of Thrangu Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama who came to Nepal as a refugee and who has given education and healthcare to thousands Wangchuk is an Ambassador for One Young World, […]
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Cindy was an irresistible referral, on paper, perhaps the most exotic and cosmopolitan backstory I had ever seen. 23 years old, an only child of an Asian mother and South American father, she had been brought up in Taiwan until the age of 11, with batches of time spent in family apartments in New York, […]
SHO medic Omar Hafeez-Bore is director/producer and founder of Short Sharp Productions. His honest, chatty one minute films capture the thoughts and opinions of young UK doctors and nurses. [youtube id=”qZhf8hD4wXw” width=”750″ height=”422″ position=”left”] More on Short Sharp Scratch Productions from founder Omar Hafeez-Bore To know about Short Sharp Scratch Productions, you first have to […]
[youtube id=”GhMigwFqYzc” width=”750″ height=”422″ position=”left”] Water is at the heart of WAVE’s work. Realising how fundamental the lake was to the region, they begun to use the lake as a highway, using boats to deliver medical supplies and transport people to remote lakeside health centres. Now their vision has expanded with plans to build a full […]
[youtube id=”cXSMNNtsmW0″ width=”750″ height=”422″ position=”left”] If you have a minute or three, sit back and see how much has changed in the NHS since 1957. Have doctors ever felt that they received a fair deal with the National Health Service? Or has there always been, and will there always be, an uneasy relationship between medics and […]