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Childcare woes
Yesterday I was flipping through a medical journal and read something that brought back the past very vividly. It was an account of how a young GP, who was a mother of school age children, was struck off the medical … Continue reading
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Tagged childcare, doctors-strikes, general-practice, general-practice, gmc, health, healthcare, NHS
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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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A brave new world of lower waiting lists in the NHS?
Thank goodness, the new government is trying very hard to speed up the process of diagnosis and treatment to reduce waiting lists in the NHS, and I think they are on the right track. Allowing patients to book their own … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Management, Health Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged health, healthcare, news, NHS, politics, waiting times
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NHS funding – Where should our priorities be?
With all this talk of the latest budget giving a huge amount of money to the NHS, it is now necessary to look at how this amount of money can be spent in order to rescue the health of this … Continue reading
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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Why do parts of the media really enjoy criticizing the NHS in Wales?
It is generally considered that the NHS in Wales performs much worse than the English NHS. The Daily Mail is always saying so and many other commentators too. So when Theresa May recently asked – “If the Labour Party have … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Policy, Medicine, old age, Sir David Attenborough
Tagged end=of-life drugs, health, health service, UK
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Old age doesn’t come by itself – part 3
It seems characteristic of older people these days that we think of ourselves as much younger than these old people we see around us. This because inside we still think of ourselves as being youthful if we feel well, even … Continue reading
Posted in Backache, Health Delivery, Health Policy, Medicine, old age, Physiology, sexual relationships
Tagged Alzheimer's disease, behaviour, dementia, exercise, health, heart attack, old age
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Old age doesn’t come by itself – part 2.
There is no doubt that the effects of getting older can be very troublesome. With the insouciance of youth in the surgery I would often joke about it, and sometimes say “well, the alternative is worse”, meaning that at least … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, healthy food, Medicine, Physiology
Tagged deafness, eyes, health, sleep, teeth
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How does our Neanderthal ancestry affect what diseases we get?
I have always been interested in anthropology, and especially the study of hunter/gatherers, particularly the first modern humans who first made their appearance in Africa during the Pleistocene 200,000 years ago, and then migrated out of Africa about 70,000 years … Continue reading
Statins – the Well are Worried yet again
Are you over 60? Or younger but worried about your health? Then chances are you will be taking statins and/or aspirin. One in three people over 40 take statins, (up to seven million people in England), costing the NHS at … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspirin, assisted suicide, cancer, health, heart attack, statins, stroke
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Elen Samuel, doctor and writer 