by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 23, 2020 | Humour
Our funny old ‘medical’ language Next time they’ve run out of old magazines in Outpatients, pick up a newspaper and see how many of today’s medical terms could have another meaning. For starters ……. ARTERY – –...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 17, 2020 | Post Treatment
Cancer Charities face problems Cancer is big business, on both sides of the Atlantic. But, with some major cancer charities reporting a fall in income, signs are the once-generous public are not so inclined to donate today. Now, they want to know where their money is...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 17, 2020 | News
Cancer Charities face problems Cancer is big business, on both sides of the Atlantic. But, with some major cancer charities reporting a fall in income, signs are the once-generous public are not so inclined to donate today. Now, they want to know where their money is...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 15, 2020 | Diary Archive
Boy – the latest episode of the reality TV programme ‘Hospital’ really highlighted the NHS – warts and all. There was poor old Ron, over 90 years old, and bravely bearing the pain of a broken hip. Every time he was moved to go somewhere else...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 11, 2020 | NHS
Hurrah for people like Roy Lillie Thanks to a streaming cold, he’s had to rest up – which has given him time to read the latest turgid announcement from the NHS Dept. of silly time-wasting ideas in Whitehall. In the year when we celebrate the 200th...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 9, 2020 | Events
Florence Nightingale – 200 years Exhibition on the woman behind the myth To many, when we think of Florence Nightingale we think of the woman who walked the wards of the Crimean military hospital, holding up a lamp to light her way as she tended sick and...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 8, 2020 | Diary Archive
The Paterson case rears its very ugly head again, and again the NHS’s neglect of patient care is highlighted in the most horrific circumstances. Surgeon Ian Paterson’s treatment of patients with breast cancer was so bad that he has been given a 20-year...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 28, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
What we need to eat as cancer survivors Doctors, physios, nutritionists and everyone else tell us we must eat healthily. This photo shows fish and vegetables piled high with recommended suitable foods. But, when flat out with fatigue, which one of us has time or...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 20, 2020 | Skin Problems
Using Rose and Lavender as antiseptics As if life wasn’t boring enough, we are told to use non-perfumed skincare – in fact many manufacturers make a big thing of their products being ‘non-perfumed’. And how boring that gets! So why not use...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 8, 2020 | Post Treatment
Goalposts move again Brace yourselves! Don’t think the ‘promised’ £38 billion for the NHS is going to benefit cancer care very much. Yet again the goalposts have moved, so isn’t it time the NHS made a New Year Resolution to tell us the...
