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Book review: Timor Mortis: How we Live with Death

28 October 2026
"I personally am in favour of assisted dying and am a director of the organisation Dignity in Dying, which campaigns for a change in the law. However, I am wary of doctors who admit to hastening someone’s death because it clouds the issue and detracts from the key points around why we are campaigning for a change in the law
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Death: The secret teacher hiding in plain sight

Terminal lucidity refers to the unexpected return of mental clarity in those approaching death. It has been documented across the palliative landscape. The authors discuss what it is to encounter terminal lucidity for clinicians and families.
26 October 2026

AI for dummies (like me)

AI is increasingly becoming both a driver of national economies and a potential source of serious harms, which makes it a matter for politics, democracies, and voters. Accordingly, at least in my opinion, everyone should be familiar with the main
25 October 2026

Why am I a doctor? A memoir

‘Life’, wrote the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, ‘must be understood backwards; but ... it must be lived forwards.’ Let me put that aphorism to the test and reflect on my career’s waypoints ...
24 October 2026

Opinion and Clinical

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Why am I a doctor? A memoir

‘Life’, wrote the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, ‘must be understood backwards; but ... it must be lived forwards.’ Let me put that aphorism to the test and reflect on my career’s waypoints ...
24 October 2026

Before and after

We speak of experience as though it simply builds knowledge. But perhaps it does something deeper and more profound. It changes the person who is doing the knowing.
15 October 2026

On social functions

"The thing about being swept along by cultural currents is that you don’t notice until they start to change direction. Those currents are just the way things are. As GPs we go about our daily work noticing the diagnostic challenges, the prescribing
12 October 2026

Book Reviews

Book review: Timor Mortis: How we Live with Death

"I personally am in favour of assisted dying and am a director of the organisation Dignity in Dying, which campaigns for a change in the law. However, I am wary of doctors who admit to hastening someone’s death because it clouds the issue and detracts
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Book Review: Hungry: A Biography of My Body

Katriona O'Sullivan's memoir Hungry depicts a growing discomfort with how both the media and the medical community are talking about patients living with obesity. We have been giving patients with obesity two options, and both take agency away. 'Eat less and move more', which lands
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International

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Medical tourism: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Medical tourism doesn’t reduce NHS workload. It splits it. The funded, planned, well-resourced part of care happens elsewhere. The complications, the uncertainty, the chronic follow-up land back in general practice. Without warning. Without resource. And without anyone having agreed to it.
4 mins read

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Trainees and students

When good doctors fail exams

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One lesson many trainees learn too late is that medicine cannot be our entire identity ... Because when our entire identity depends on our performance, every setback becomes a crisis.
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