Without a government, Northern Ireland’s nurses are still living through austerity
“The nurses are getting more and more demoralised. We’re haemorrhaging staff left, right and centre.”
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Eating with one side of the mouth is like flying a twin-jet airliner on only one engine
No place for false modesty here; I used to be a good cook. No, dammit – I still am a…
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From cyber attack to heart attack: the hidden human impact of hospital hacks
When hospitals suffer cyber breaches, bureaucratic security measures may be leading to more fatalities.
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My patient refused to go into hospital – until I saw the poster on his wall
Gaining Daryl’s consent to examination was one thing, getting his agreement to be admitted quite another.
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Edie’s vision was clouded with white lights – and her doctors were blind to the problem
I had every sympathy with Edie’s GP and optician – it was a very strange symptom.
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What Gareth’s bottom lump says about the need for gender-neutral immunisation
From 2015, there were mounting calls for the HPV vaccine to be administered to all children irrespective of gender, as is…
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An affair of the heart where you don’t want to miss a beat
It is estimated that in England alone, some 425,000 people have unsuspected atrial fibrillation.
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The Nobel Peace Prize would be an insult to Greta Thunberg
It’s easy to hand out prizes – much harder to actually take action against climate change.
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