The Hideout has been promoting the voice of young people who have been subject to abuse in ways that young people can engage and understand; it’s a branch of the Women’s Aid charity in the UK who have been active in domestic violence support and prevention for over 30 years. […]
Category: practice of medicine
Pilgrimage
Photo from Peter Harrison on Flickr Most communities will have one, two, or more campaigns running to raise money for a child with a health concern. It might be a cancer, a chronic disability or a neurodegenerative condition. The campaign is not for a charity which supports children with the condition in general, or research […]
Don’t Forget the Bubbles – new paediatric website
Today saw the launch of Don’t Forget the Bubbles, a new paediatric website. The aim of DFTB is to get more people involved in delivering high quality online education – it’s a collaborative, free, open access (FOAM) resource. The taster content available already gives you an idea of what’s to come. There are useful quick […]
Empathy is good. But does it really make a difference?
There’s been quiet a lot written in the UK recently about failures in an attitude to care within organisations, and how this is a major root cause of poor healthcare and avoidable death. I was wondering about the links between caring, I guessed best expressed as “empathy”, and how patients or their relatives percieved their […]
Ray Bradbury’s Grandma
I’ve learnt a lot of things from a lot of people, living and dead. But I often feel that it was in the (fictional) death of Ray Bradbury‘s Grandma that I learnt some of the most important. Ray Bradbury was often characterised as a Science Fiction writer, and I don’t think this bothered him […]
Engineering irrelevance
I have a favourite consultation. Actually, I have a lot of favourite consultations, but this one is pretty high up there. It happens every 18 to 24 months on average. I will have met with a family, and we’ll have got to know each other on a journey (naff word, but can’t find one […]
Flying the nest
So, on a tangent from statistics and not relating to names, management or critical appraisal, I was wondering about transition of adolescents from paediatric care to adult specialities, and was filled with a sense of loss. There have been lots of people tell stories of how the move away from the managed care of community […]