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Women’s bodies shamed in medicine.
It is said that historically women have had a raw deal in Western systems of medicine. Women’s bodies have been routinely sexualized or their characteristics ignored or shamed. In a recent book1 a leading cancer doctor in the US, Dr … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Policy, Medicine, sexual relationships, Women's Health
Tagged discrimination, health service, misogyny, pseudo-angina, UK
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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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Looking Back on Covid-19
As I write this, some scientists are urging us to start to wear masks again, because there is a new variant and cases of covid are rising. Covid hasn’t gone away and we know that things may take a turn … Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Health Delivery, Health Policy, healthy food, Medicine, pandemic, science
Tagged Covid-19, health service, 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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Virtual Beds anyone?
The current crisis in the NHS is wearingly familiar. There is talk of patients waiting, and occasionally dying, on trolleys before being admitted, ambulances waiting for hours outside hospitals with paramedics before A&E have the space to take over their … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Health Delivery, Health Management, Health Policy, hospital beds, Medicine, old age
Tagged health service, Trolleys, winter crisis
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Assisted dying.
I wrote in my last blog that recent advances in treating dementia have shown promise. I said, “Drugs are being developed to target monoclonal antibodies against amyloid β, the protein that seems to be awry in Alzheimer’s disease”. However since … Continue reading
Offa’s dyke and the Line of Death
Did you know that Offa’s Dyke is the “Line of Death”? In case you missed this bit of blatant party political rubbish from our Prime Minister, he said it in a speech in North Wales to local Conservative party members(1) … Continue reading
Posted in Health Policy
Tagged cancer, David Cameron, end=of-life drugs, health service, hip operations, Offa’s Dyke, Wales, Wales and England
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Elen Samuel, doctor and writer 