How to save the NHS… by five bestselling medical memoirists
With medical memoirs now the hottest ticket in publishing, we asked five acclaimed authors for their views on the crisis in the NHS
Oncologist Azra Raza: ‘Don’t give up hope. Don’t give in to despair’
The Columbia professor on taking healthcare out of the stone age, her ideas for cancer prevention – and why getting too close to patients is an occupational hazard
Heather Ashton obituary
Psychopharmacologist who started a clinic for people addicted to tranquillisers and wrote a manual on how to quit them safely
50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand?
Teaching men how to approach women they don’t know is a $100m industry. But does it help men find their dream mate - or just encourage street harassment?
Ultrarunning, prison, surviving Aids … the best tales of endurance
From Shackleton in the Antarctic to Edmund White on the Aids crisis, Emily Chappell rounds up stories of survival
The Undying and Notes Made While Falling review – how to write about being ill
Beyond the horrific surgery stories ... Anne Boyer and Jenn Ashworth innovate with form in their remarkable books about the experience and business of illness
Indistractable by Nir Eyal review – letting tech off the hook
The author of Hooked, a bible of addictive tech design, now offers advice on how not to be distracted. But is his self-help argument convincing?
Heart surgeon and author reveals how he once set fire to patient
Samer Nashef, author of The Angina Monologues, tells of coronary bypass that didn’t go to plan
Breaking and Mending by Joanna Cannon review – clinical diagnosis
A compelling view of modern medicine
McMindfulness by Ronald Purser; Mindfulness by Christina Feldman and Willem Kuyken – review
Mindfulness may have become a tool of capitalism, but if it works, does it matter?