The fetishisation of “natural” childbirth has killed women and babies
My mother in law, a paediatrician, likes to tell her patients that “you can predict a low risk birth, but…
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Why Sajid Javid should concentrate his attention on staff, not scans
The Health Secretary has a delusional confidence in technology’s ability to fix complex problems.
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Cutting Covid support is a betrayal of the working class
Low-income workers have been given a bleak choice by the government: attend work while sick or risk falling into financial…
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Ben Whishaw’s haggard junior doctor was working 16 years ago – the NHS is even worse today
Post-Covid and Conservative cuts, hospitals are closer to collapse than depicted in Adam Kay’s dramatised diaries, This is Going to…
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How NHS waiting lists have reached a new record high
Almost six million people are waiting for treatment as the backlog caused by the pandemic grows.
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Politics of insulin reveals the sickness of US health system
Diabetics need insulin to stay alive but drugmakers and politicians ensure the price remains high.
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“It is embarrassing for the Prime Minister”: why the government really U-turned on NHS mandatory vaccines
“I’ve been bombarded with messages of people so worried that they were going to lose their livelihoods. It’s been horrific.”
By It can’t schmooze GPs, so Big Pharma targets patients and politicians instead
Only doctors at the end of their careers can recall the lavish lunches, the balloon trips, the conferences at ski…
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