Today I had a conversation with a colleague who is a Consultant in International Health Care Delivery. We spoke about medicine, women and the world today. We talked about psychosocial medicine, where medicine fails, and where it succeeds. Medicine has become a series of protocols and guidelines, distracting away from the patient. The ancients knew … [Read more…]
A leaked document and a national catastrophe have erupted in Shrewsbury. Over 600 cases between 1979 and 2017 are being investigated. At least 42 babies died, 50 left permanently damaged and 3 mothers died as a result of poor midwifery care. The Natural Child Birth Trust governs midwifery with an uncompromising belief in ‘natural childbirth’. … [Read more…]
Medical Cannabis covers two groups of substances Cannabis (CBD) oils – the health part Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the fun bits which are ‘Psychoactive’ Only CBD is available on prescription and even then, only to a select group of patients Those with a rare type of epilepsy – EpidiolexThose with pain relating to Multiple Sclerosis – Nabiximols Those … [Read more…]
Cancer, Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes II . Dementia The Bad News – if you get one, you may soon have the rest The Good News – Live Healthy and you could avoid them all What causes them and what do you need to do? 1 – Live Healthy Healthy Living is about living in … [Read more…]
AI is here to stay and those who have robot hoovers know this. I have two, upstairs Euphemia, and downstairs Edgar. Every day they do their rounds. Edgar is Sherlock’s best friend – Sherlock likes nothing better to snuggle up and rest her head (Sherlock is a ‘her’ because we are a gender neutral household) … [Read more…]
Should you tell your boss that you have problems with your mental health? The first rule of work is ‘Never tell anyone anything they don’t need to know’ Work is a jungle where only the fittest survive, take nothing for granted and keep an eye on your back at all times. You don’t have to … [Read more…]
Daniel Blake did not see the worst of the benefits system
Doctors see lots of unhealthy people. Their patients are generally overweight, on long term medication, in pain and depressed. That is the nature of modern illness and that is what doctors perceive as ‘normal illness’. Unless, of course, you are a private doctor, whose clientele are likely to be in significantly better shape. If they … [Read more…]