A&E
The surreal purgatory of A&E
‘This is my father, and his pronoun is he,’ said the builder boyfriend, checking his dad into Accident and Emergency.…
Vital signs
Exhibit A. It is 1958 and you are barrelling down a dual carriageway; the 70 mph limit is still eight…
A timely reminder of what junior doctors actually do – and it's not pleasant
All this week Radio Five Live has been giving us an insight into what it is like not just to…
Portrait of the week
Home The Indian company Tata decided to sell its entire steel business in Britain, putting more than 15,000 jobs in…
The palpable tragedy of New Year’s Eve in A&E
The new year was two hours young. My boy and I were side by side on a row of three…
I’m a junior doctor and I used to trust the Tories. Not any more
Like many of my fellow junior doctors, I trusted a Conservative government with the NHS. If it’s to stay strong…
No, even my daughter’s great hospital care doesn’t change my mind about the NHS
When Girl came off the horse it didn’t look like a bad fall. More like an involuntary and rather hurried…
So the near collapse of A&Es around the country is all my fault?
Oh, I see. So it’s my fault. There I was, thinking that the general swamping and near collapse of accident…
Meet the bloated, useless General Medical Council
Its licensing system has turned doctors into full-time form-fillers
Revealed: The hidden crisis in Britain's ambulance services
Britain’s ambulance services are in crisis. When will the government notice?
The NHS ‘wellbeing’ monkey deserves to die
My young daughter has a furry beaver — lifelike in all but its eyes, which to me seem cold and dead.…
A&E is no place for the over-tens
‘Ouch!’ said the ex-builder boyfriend. ‘I think something’s bitten me.’ And a few seconds after that, something bit me too.…
'I assembled a counter full of sharp objects, and went at it like Rambo in First Blood'
All the way around a cross country course I went, then I got back, tied the horse up at a…
