Have rapid recent advances in IT, and the necessary Covid restrictions, rendered traditional face-to-face medical consultations largely redundant? David Zigmond shares two views on this and leaves us in no doubt about his own conclusions.
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2020 has at least seen us start to tear down the weeds and thorns of racist power structures within our society and our profession. Roghieh Dehghan asks whether we have yet grasped the roots, and shows us how we might move forward to a more secure foundation for inter-racial justice.
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2020 has been a grim year for patients and doctors alike. As we approach 2021, weary but hoping now to put our efforts into a mass vaccination program, John Travers, a GP registrar in Dublin, gives us his personal reflection on the early days of the pandemic.
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We always knew that there was something a little bit magical about Roger Neighbour. Natasha Houghton and her colleagues explain all.
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Can pottering in the greenhouse mitigate against the toxic impact of work related stress upon our brains? Jane Roberts examines the evidence.
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2020 has been a distressing year for UK doctors for many reasons. John Frey reminds us that it’s no better across the pond.
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‘Assessing the danger had simply involved walking up to a mannequin’s bedside on an ILS course and stating, “I have looked around the patient and cannot see anything dangerous”.’ However, Charles Slater, then a medical student, found that in real life things may not be so straightforward.
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Not another article about Shipman? But 20 years on David Zigmond’s reflections on the man who contaminated our medical world for ever suggest worthwhile new insights. Read on…
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A New Indian Express editorial read “Can one person change the world? Ask Andrew Wakefield”. Peter Lindsay reviews “The Doctor who fooled the world” by Brian Deer Scribe, and reflects on the damage caused by Wakefield’s career.
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Claire Vicary gives a very personal account of her year with bowel cancer. There was more to getting better than she had realised……
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In the UK, at the centre of our crucial battle against Covid-19s, our NHS has been, lionised and eulogised in heroic terms. But David Zigmond questions whether this recent praise for NHS staff in fact covers up a longstanding malaise, the destabilising and demoralisation of much of our workforce. What has happened to our working culture? And what can we do about it?
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The COVID 19 pandemic has resulted in a dramatic shift from face- to-face to remote consulting within general practice. But how will this impact ongoing patient care? Victoria Tzortziou Brown, Simon Gregory and Denis Pereira Gray examine the evidence.
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