Demoralising ‘junior’ and ‘trainee’ doctor job title should be abolished
The chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies and a group of Oxford academics are calling on the NHS to abolish
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Better records will save lives – a new approach to helping the world’s poor
Worldwide 230 million people are invisible, as their births have not ever been recorded. Worse than that, this number is
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Disillusionment with our health service
Why did you want to become a doctor? I haven’t been asked that question in over six years, well before
Read moreDoes our brain define who we are?
It is an uneasy thought that who we are and what we think about is all hardwired into a three
Read moreIs the health service in danger of intergenerational unfairness?
With an ageing population there is now a danger that scarce resources are being sucked up the older generations and
Read moreMedicinal uses of marijuana
Marijuana has been around for a long time – at least 10,000 years – and has long been used for
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