Druin Burch

Labour’s hospital smoking ban is doomed to fail

6 November 2024 3:09 am

I have spent a quarter of a century caring for people dying from smoking. Deaths of this sort are not…

I’ve seen too many deaths to think that assisted dying is a good idea

17 October 2024 1:05 am

Over my quarter-of-a-century of being a doctor, I have overseen thousands of deaths. For a busy hospital physician, this is…

Badenoch is right: not all cultures are equally valid

2 October 2024 4:07 pm

Kemi Badenoch kicked up an almighty stink when she argued at the weekend that not all cultures are ‘equally valid’…

There’s nothing wrong with being a ‘junior’ doctor

19 September 2024 6:01 pm

‘The wise bustle and laugh as they walk, but fools bustle and are important,’ wrote F.L. Lucas a century ago.…