Fast-tracking GP cancer referrals through the two-week wait pathway has overloaded clinics and caused delays in diagnosis of head and neck cancers, a group of surgeons have warned. The article is here – the comments make interesting reading, but leaves me wondering what the person at the coal face of primary care supposed to do.Continue reading “NICE two-week cancer advice ‘is delaying diagnoses’, claim Oral Surgeons”
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Two (Senior) Doctors on the Junior Doctors’ Strike
When I was a House Officer and Senior House Officer in Oral Surgery from 1978 – 81, the name Russell Hopkins was mentioned with awe and some trepidation. He was Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in Cardiff with something of the autonomy of consultants in the post Lancelot Spratt years (without the Roller), his domain wasContinue reading “Two (Senior) Doctors on the Junior Doctors’ Strike”
The art of dying well – Margaret McCartney
Quantity or Quality? An excellent article in the Spectator by Glasgow GP Margaret McCartney where she asks the question, “Do we want to live as long as modern medicine allows us, or only so long as life is sweet?” Death is our only shared destiny, but we are in a new era; it’s not unusualContinue reading “The art of dying well – Margaret McCartney”
The Incisal Edge 