Wendy Mitchell, who has young onset dementia, writes about taking part in dementia research, being valued, and opportunities to change the future. Imagine being given a diagnosis of young onset dementia. Your life falls apart, you feel worthless, and of no use to anyone anymore. Services are non existent so you feel abandoned. That’s what […]
It’s that time of year again—yes, it’s changeover time. Thousands of new doctors are navigating their first weeks in a ward near you. Even though the statistics behind the fears of increased mortality have been shown to be questionable, patients, nurses, and senior doctors alike still await the arrivals with trepidation. Truthfully, it is probably […]
Channelling money into frontline care, while cutting away at public health, is a false economy […]
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Dengue fever was first detected in Sri Lanka in 1962. Although cases were initially sporadic, dengue has reached epidemic proportions during the past 15 years. Dengue fever used to show a clear seasonal pattern, with two incidence peaks during the northeast and southwest monsoon periods. However, patients with dengue fever are now seen throughout the […]
In 2005, I was a senior specialist registrar in surgery at the Royal London Hospital and managed casualties from the 7/7 London bombings. Twelve years later, now a consultant trauma surgeon at the Royal London Major Trauma Centre and director of the London Major Trauma System, I was surgical commander for the hospital’s response to […]
Earlier this week, the media delightedly reported that Jacob Rees-Moggs had referred to floccinaucinihilipilification in a parliamentary speech. It comes from Latin: floccus, a wisp of wool, naucum, a trifle, nihil, nothing, and pilus, a hair, words that belittle whatever they are referring to. The word is not new. The Oxford English Dictionary finds it […]
There is no magic formula to giving a patient bad news, but a personal touch can help […]
We need to have an open debate about what we mean by best interests and how they are best served […]
The reality of fewer psychiatrists is a problem that is not going to go away […]