As doctors we undergo more formal training than the vast majority of the population. Obviously, that’s good in many ways - there is a lot to learn! However, some of that training is training to override: override feelings of emotional distress at a patient’s suffering, override discomfort at [...]

As we move from an unusually delightful summer, past the Equinox and well into Autumn, people everywhere are succumbing to lurgies! A normal part of life, seasonal illnesses have taken on a more sinister cloak in the last few years since the covid phenomenon. What seems to [...]

At the beginning of October I had covid. In some ways this was a relief. We all know how the anxiety in anticipation of something frequently outweighs the reality of the event itself. I was fortunate to have a very mild illness, which of course is not [...]