NHS Blog Doctor Latest Blog Posts

My aged friend Wat Tyler is coming out of retirement and even now furiously re-jigging his c.v. before he heads up the M1 to Leeds to apply for a job that involves "qualitative analysis" and pays around £30k a year. Take a look here.

The whipping boy “But there isn’t any,” said Alice when the Mad-hatter offered her a glass of wine. Morale amongst family doctors is lower than ever. Not a day goes by without us being subjected to a tirade of criticism from the media who take perverse delight in portraying us as ...

Another look at the careless use of language that so often offends the mentally ill ... we thought back to the books we were brought up with. Little Black Sambo; Noddy always being chased by golliwogs and so on. We also took it all for granted but it was not quite right. It was not ...

It was funny then, it's not so funny now. Courses: we have offered our university-accredited courses in minor illness management since 1997. You can attend the two-day Pharmacology course or the three-day Clinical Skills course , or combine the two and then go on to complete our ...

Any more good ideas? My drug-sodden old friend Wat Tyler at Burning our Money has just explained in a few hundred words how NHS resources are being squandered. Read Earning your pharmacist an honest crust Tyler may not know, but will not be surprised to hear,  that these ...

A short piece in the Guardian again today, this time about the alleged mystical healing powers of placentas and Robert van Persie's alleged trip to Serbia for some implausble alternative medicine. Let's just hope that the Quacktitioner Royal does not take this one up. I've already had a ...

In the United States, approximately 9% of the school-age population is diagnosed with ADHD. It's the most commonly diagnosed behavioral condition in children today. Twice as many boys are diagnosed with ADHD as girls. Concerta The race continues in the USA to get 5 million ...

King Andy's guide to faking a sickie It has always suited governments to encourage the long-term unemployed to "discover" an illness and move on to incapacity benefit. The move is easily made, as GPs are a "soft touch" for a sick certificate. But while this move to incapacity ...