Dr Ahmed Rashid speaks of his personal experience in general practice, an important area of medicine that has recently been thrust into the spotlight. Foundation year one (FY1) is an odd time. After endless years of jumping through academic hoops and revising for increasingly difficult assessments, you finally get to make that satisfying phone call
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Professor Valerie Wass, Emeritus Professor of Medical Education at Keele University, is the Chair of the By Choice – Not by Chance report. Here she briefly explores the need for such an investigation and provides a summary of the task force’s findings and recommendations for the future. The Challenge Knowledge, technology and health care delivery
Third year medical student Usama Hussain explains why the ethical procurement of medical equipment is vital, and the actions necessary to achieve it. With NHS expenditure for goods and services in the billions, it hardly seems fair that improvements to our healthcare come at the expense of those who help to provide them. Yet mounting
Issy Good explores how sex can be overlooked in science and what the subsequent consequences might be. Researchers have recently explored and identified the different ways that men and women react to drugs. However, little consideration is taken regarding sex when it comes down to prescribing drugs and treatment course, and this extends to
How the NHS is failing a vulnerable demographic. The hardships faced by modern day refugees seem to form an unending list, yet while these prisoners of geography display outstanding resilience and bravery, the Western world continues to play the role of bystander and watch passively as innocent people are reduced to the collateral damage of
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