Why are patients in English hospitals more likely to die at the weekend? A good question, put to Dr Mark Porter, head of the BMA’s consultants’ committee by John Humphrys on the Today programme on Radio 4 yesterday morning. It was a difficult question for him to answer in a couple of sound bites. The […]
Tag: hospital care
Peter Lapsley: Little things that matter
The past week spent as an in-patient in the Charing Cross Hospital in West London served mainly to reinforce my respect and admiration for the staff there. Once again (this was revision surgery for a whole hip replacement done last year) there was not the slightest sign of any of the unpleasantness one reads of […]
Mark Clarfield on Israeli Arab patients in time of war
Someone less than familiar with Israel might wonder how during this crisis we handle Israeli Arab patients who walk around the hospital in a bright red kaffieh and use the helicopter pad as a place to pray. After all, we are in the midst of a war just a few miles from the hospital involving […]