So I got a gift from a patient recently that was as much a “thank you” as a Manifesto for the manifestly murky. It was done in a kind...

There’s something almost Pavlovian about seeing “Equality & Diversity” on a training schedule. You know the vibe: mandatory, mandatory,...

Thanks aren’t part of the job description. They’re not in the GMC Good Medical Practice , they’re not in the NHS contract, and they’re...

A while back, I found myself muttering the fateful words: “How hard can it be to run a local PACES course?” Turns out — hard . But also...

I don’t know if I was compassionate when I started in medicine. Not really, anyway. I think I wanted to be. Or at least, I thought I was....

When I was in Medical school, we still had old fashioned hardwood desks in the lecture theatre with decades of graffiti carved, written,...