Patients have the drive and motivitation to search for the best care, so when we take time to do our research and work out what is causing frightening side effects, why don't doctors listen to us? Admit that we know and understand what is causing problems. Cancer...
It's official: Britain has possibly the worst cancer care in Europe The NHS tries to claim it's the "envy of the world", but recent headlines in the media highlighting official cancer survival rates told the real facts. With the problems we face daily, it can't have...
Recently the media was full of stories saying that medical cannabis was to be available on the NHS to help control pain. Yet so far it seems only two patients had managed to get a prescription. Friends have to pay to get this, but why? Interviewing Andrew Lansley...
A letter in The Telegraph" A reader in France sent a letter, saying if he needed to see his orthopeadic surgeon, "I would phone the hospital and get an appointment with him and also an X-ray appointment for an hour earlier. This appointment would be within two to...
Here is a selection of cartoons I thought appropriate for members of this exclusive club during Covid-19 Lockdown _ News from a Canadian friend says "got myself a seniors GPS--not only gets me where I want to go- but it also reminds me of why I wanted to go there in...
Silly me - it's taken me weeks to realise self-isolation means others protecting me. And I thought it was to keep me away from infecting them! One always thinks one is invincible, but I have to realise at 81 with umpteen conditions, I must protect myself. It has...
Guess who must be making a fortune today? Supermarkets. Instead of pathetically wringing their hands and asking shoppers to think of others before panic buying, they should have put rationing in place. The BBC has published a heartfelt plea from a Nurse...
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 to be treated, one winced...