I am a burnt-out doctor. This is why it matters
The shocking number of physician suicides indicates a culture and system that fails to value the profession
Homeopathy is quackery plain and simple, whatever the royal family says
Why do some GPs persist in prescribing watered-down, inactive substances?
Losing my mum to breast cancer defined my radiography career
As she went through treatment, it was clear that I wanted to specialise in breast cancer. I hope she’s proud of the person I’ve become
Doctors knew my son was suicidal. I should have been told before he died
I was denied the chance to be there for my son when he needed me the most
The NHS is underfunded. Even a former Tory health secretary sees it
The health service is in crisis – as Andrew Lansley’s comments on the screening that could have caught his cancer make plain, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Man’s £54,000 NHS cancer bill raises ethical questions that can’t be ignored
Royal Marsden said treatment for Albert Thompson requires payment. It’s the first step in applying the same logic to all
Britain’s contaminated blood scandal: ‘I need them to admit they killed our son’
In the 1970s and 80s, 4,689 British haemophiliacs were treated with contaminated blood products. So far, more than half of them have died. The government knew there were risks involved. The patients didn’t. Will they ever get justice?
One day I was director in a mental health trust. The next I was suicidal
Depression sucked the life and soul out of me but I knew from my clinical experience that I could recover
Five ways to avoid becoming a victim of prescription drugs errors
A study has revealed that mistakes in the writing or dispensing of medicine can cost up to 22,000 people their lives every year. Here’s how to avoid being one of them
A new heart saved my life. Too many others don’t get that chance
An opt-out system for organ donation could improve the outcomes for critically ill people waiting for a heart transplant