The Double-Speculum Dilemma
What’s the point of the exam if the speciality will just repeat it?
What’s So Special About 2008?
Is the BMA right to use 2008 as the benchmark for pay erosion?
Christmas in Hospital: What the Elderly Teach Us About Time
While the world celebrates beginnings, the ward teaches us about endings
Striking Doctors Deliver A Festive Reality Check to the Government
With turnout up and rejection clear, the government’s hope of ‘strike fatigue’ was wishful thinking
Prioritising UK Graduates: The Comfortable Conversation We Need to Have
Are we shying away from talking about a key feature driving the specialty bottleneck crisis?
More Doctors Fiscally Dragged into Higher Tax Brackets
More Doctors Fiscally Dragged into Higher Tax Brackets
Negligence or Acceptable Risk? The New Standard of Clinical Harm
Where should the line be when doctors are over-worked but patients bear the consequences…
Why ‘Private’ Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word in Healthcare
The uncomfortable reality of private healthcare and why we can’t ignore it
Wes Streeting’s Wager: A Deal Meant to Fail?
The BMA rejects latest offer in just 4 hours, but was it designed to be accepted or just to set the narrative?
The Never-Ending Patient Journey
How some patients remind us of medicine’s persistent attempts to fix the unfixable
How Power Impacts Clinical Decision-Making
Why certainty and authority can be seductive (but dangerous) when it comes to clinical care.