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Giving to Charity at Christmas
Giving to charity is something you have to think about at Christmas time. The huge number of charity leaflets coming through the post and by email, the focus on charities by newspapers and magazines and the ongoing bad news from … Continue reading
Money, money, money
Following my previous blog on people wanting it all, I think we have to ask why the British public thinks it can have everything it wants. When I started out as a GP in 1970, people did not think like … Continue reading
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We want it all, don’t we?
I haven’t written a blog for a while. My excuses range from being too busy, to feeling that I haven’t got much to say any more. The message that I and people like me have been putting out, about the … Continue reading
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Should you immunise your child?
This blog is in response to a post about childhood immunizations. I did not write about it in my book, as the subject has been extensively written about elsewhere. However it is indeed a very important subject, and I am … Continue reading
The Elephant in the Flood
As we all look at our TV screens at the devastation caused by the recent flooding of the Somerset levels, the Thames and the Severn, our thoughts turn to climate change. Storms, unstable weather, floods were all predicted years ago … Continue reading
GP Fat Cats?
I was recently gossiping with an ex-colleague of mine, who works as a NHS manager. We were talking about colleagues we both knew (in management) who were well known to take their jobs very lightly – they used to take … Continue reading
Vital stuff not to waste your money on
Vitamin. Its derivation is VITal AMINe or Vital amine – an amine essential to life. An amine is a biochemical substance and not all vitamins are in fact amines. But that doesn’t matter – the dictionary definition is “an organic … Continue reading
Butter is fine (again!)
For most of the time I was working in general practice, as I was the only female, I saw women with hot flushes and other menopausal symptoms. I advised HRT, which worked fine for the symptoms. Then, as time went … Continue reading
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Elen Samuel, doctor and writer 