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Madness of Sense and the Sense of Madness

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A reflection on the madness of sense and the sense of madness. Anuj Sean Chathley captures the demoralising and costly effects of healthcare funding cuts in poetry. "...these changes do not save. They spend — time, money, morale, and sense."

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Artificial Intelligence… or not?

You might be thinking, why is this important anyway? Who cares whether it is a human doctor or a computer algorithm that is writing the article? Well, I suppose that is one of the defining questions of our time currently

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All advice under Emergency Health Regulations is in line with current evidence and best practice and is therefore in your best interests. Acting against your own best interests is ... therefore prohibited. A Hoban dystopia.

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The Clock Ticks Differently Now

We competed not for praise, but for endurance. For the longest call. The bloodiest shift. The boldest procedure. A hundred hours a week? A badge of honour. In those halls, medicine was not a career. It was a covenant. Poem by Anuj

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Demon Copperhead and the opioid crisis

"When I saw the copy of Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead sitting on the square stack of books in Waterstones, I was naturally skeptical; ‘No.1 reader’s pick for the book of the century’ and ‘Pulitzer Prize winning’ — quite the praise. In the months that have

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The days of small things

...I sensed that they also lived in a different dimension of time. The soft chattering of the patients waiting and sitting on the grass outside the clinic had an unhurried acceptance of just waiting. Storied reflection from rural general practice in South Africa.

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The psychosomatic self

If the only reason a doctor labels symptoms as psychosomatic is that they can’t come up with a better explanation, they might as well blame the fairies at the bottom of the garden... Ben Hoban will make you think!

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For the attention of Doctor Nemo

"One idea circulating was a character called Dr Brain, a seemingly mild GP who turned invisible in the sunlight ‘... along with all his appointments’, he quipped to parents’ polite laughter. Dr Brain might well be a good name for a children’s supervillain

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The familiar and strange art of diagnosis

Diagnosis ... provides structure to a narrative of dysfunction, or a picture of disarray, and imposes official order, sorting out the real from the imagined, the valid from the feigned, the significant from the insignificant ... In Life and Times this month

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