Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope
Bob Simpson considers the cultural diversity of NHS doctors, offering the image of the doctor as tightrope walker.
Crowdfunding Healthcare in Shetland: Maakin the NHS
Ellen Stewart reflects on how a Shetland community are using traditional knitting to crowdfund an MRI scanner
Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope (Reflection on Simpson III)
Specialist Registrar Amy Belfield reflects on Bob Simpson’s essay, ‘Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope’. For Simpson’s original essay, click here. For a reflection from Emergency Medicine Registrar Miriam Saey Al Rifai, click here. For a reflection from academic neurologist and
Private Islands in COVID-19
Lottie Hughes reflects on the public, the private – and Kim Kardashian – during the COVID-19 pandemic
Of Monsters & Men: A Tragedy in Three Parts
Today’s rhetoric around heroism signifies the failure of prevention and neglect of the public health, argues Guddi Singh, a paediatric doctor and PhD candidate in philosophy at King’s College London.
Nostalgia and the NHS
Chelsea Saxby reflects on public feelings about the NHS through TV viewers’ nostalgia for inter-war GPs What might audience responses to a ‘feel good’ Sunday night drama, set in the Scottish Highlands between the
Temporary Hospitals
As the field hospital NHS Nightingale opens at the ExCeL centre in London, Marie Allitt considers a wartime precedent for temporary spaces of caregiving.
The Hospital as Jungle : Tiger Country by Nina Raine at the Hampstead Theatre
Jane Macnaughton reviews Tiger Country: At the opening of Nina Raine’s new play about life in an acute hospital, Emily, the new junior doctor in A&E appears with a copy of the Oxford Handbook