A&E
Real life
‘This is my father, and his pronoun is he,’ said the builder boyfriend, checking his dad into Accident and Emergency.…
Vital signs
Exhibit A. It is 1958 and you are barrelling down a dual carriageway; the 70 mph limit is still eight…
Death watch
All this week Radio Five Live has been giving us an insight into what it is like not just to…
Portrait of the week
Home The Indian company Tata decided to sell its entire steel business in Britain, putting more than 15,000 jobs in…
Low life
The new year was two hours young. My boy and I were side by side on a row of three…
A trust betrayed
Like many of my fellow junior doctors, I trusted a Conservative government with the NHS. If it’s to stay strong…
The NHS was great for Girl, but I still don’t like it
When Girl came off the horse it didn’t look like a bad fall. More like an involuntary and rather hurried…
I guess I have to apologise for the state of the National Health Service
Oh, I see. So it’s my fault. There I was, thinking that the general swamping and near collapse of accident…
Get rid of the GMC
Its licensing system has turned doctors into full-time form-fillers
999 emergency
Britain’s ambulance services are in crisis. When will the government notice?
The NHS ‘wellbeing’ monkey deserves to die
My young daughter has a furry beaver — lifelike in all but its eyes, which to me seem cold and dead.…
Real life
‘Ouch!’ said the ex-builder boyfriend. ‘I think something’s bitten me.’ And a few seconds after that, something bit me too.…
Real life
All the way around a cross country course I went, then I got back, tied the horse up at a…
