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Interesting snippets on getting adequate medical care
Last year I wrote a blog “Women’s bodies shamed in medicine”, (1) on how women are treated both as doctors and as patients, and how their position as doctors has improved out of all recognition in the last fifty years. There … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Policy, Medicine, Private health care, Women's Health
Tagged dental-care, health, healthcare, Medicine, NHS, Optometrists, pharmacists
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Can the NHS survive?
While going about my normal life, fitting in appointments for dentists and eye tests amongst shopping and hair appointments, I sometimes think about the changes in provision for these first two since I retired from clinical practice over ten years … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Management, Health Policy, Private health care
Tagged dental, dentist, dentistry, Dentists, Ear infections, health, health service, healthcare, NHS, Optometrists, Privatization, UK
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Politics, Health and Devolution.
I don’t usually discussed politics at all in my blog, unless absolutely essential to make a point. However, politics is now intruding on almost every aspect of our lives, all over the world. In the UK, Brexit is affecting the … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Policy, Medicine, Private health care, science
Tagged Brexit, Northern Ireland, Privatisation, Scotland, UK, Wales
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Breast surgeon guilty of doing unnecessary operations.
How would you feel if you had had an operation or treatment that you thought was necessary and then found out that you never needed this treatment? If you were told you had cancer but you never had it? Pretty … Continue reading
Elen Samuel, doctor and writer 