The Rohingya refugee camps – what you don’t hear on the news
Richard Armitage splits his time between general practice in the East Midlands and humanitarian...
Read MorePosted by BJGP Life | 7 Nov 2018 | International |
Richard Armitage splits his time between general practice in the East Midlands and humanitarian...
Read MorePosted by BJGP Life | 9 Oct 2018 | International, Opinion |
Philippa Jeacocke is a GP trainee in Sheffield currently taking a year Out of Programme Experience...
Read MorePosted by BJGP Life | 29 Jun 2018 | International |
The authors are current and former members of the RCGP Junior International Committee; Sonia...
Read MorePosted by David Misselbrook | 7 Jun 2018 | International |
I have just come back from the centre of the world. Not the centre of the earth of course. No, in ancient times the centre of the world was reckoned to be Delphi. This claim was evidence based. If we do not articulate our values and construct a world where freedom, tolerance, fairness and human dignity win the day then the west has no moral high ground from which to lecture the rest of the world. The west has rested on its smug moral superiority for far too long.
Read MorePosted by David Misselbrook | 5 Mar 2018 | International |
Bahrain has sometimes been called a string of shopping malls calling itself a country. This is quite a blinkered view. Bahrain is in fact a string of shopping malls and restaurants calling itself a country. Does it matter if we don’t eat together anymore? There are various markers to suggest that it does, particularly for children. The OECD state that students who do not regularly eat with their parents are significantly more likely to truant from school, and this correlates with school performance. And according to the 2014 European Congress on Obesity, children who do not eat dinner with their parents at least twice a week were 40 percent more likely to be overweight.
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