Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor | The New Yorker—The Scalpel and the Pen, published today newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

If I might sensitively point out to #EstherRantzen's family and to MPs who support the #AssistedDyingBill, that Dame Esther Rantzen is a reason to pause and consider that people who are given months to live often live for years. And those years may be spent with many blessings.

Amy Barnes Keith Siau Thanks for sharing. It’s a great example of how B12 deficiency can silently wreck the nervous system while flying under the radar, especially when anemia isn’t obvious or dramatic. Sadly, it's not uncommon for iron, B12, and folate panels to be dismissed if "barely within range",

The Leadbeater bill is on a knife-edge; but if it passes, you can expect in 10-15 years to hear its backers saying, “Of course, in retrospect…” and “Hindsight is 20/20” and “Had we known then what we know now…” Thread on what we know now, June 10 2025:

"Children have an inherent need to play and will seek opportunities to do so even in the harshest environments." Play has therapeutic power in healthcare and humanitarian settings, write Johanna Thomson and Sophie Janet MSF International #InternationalDayofPlay bmj.com/content/389/bm…

We have serious concerns about the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales and therefore cannot support it in its current form. Our patients are among the most vulnerable in society and need to be sufficiently protected. Briefing👇rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…

Myth: People move to care homes to die. Truth: Many live full, meaningful lives for months or years. Care homes focus on wellbeing, joy, and support—it's about living, not just end-of-life care. #CareHomeOpenWeek

Diane Abbott Josh Babarinde OBE MP Vicky Foxcroft 💙 Kit Malthouse MP .Tom Tugendhat "this is not assisted dying... this is assisted killing."

The BGS responds to the vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. We are deeply concerned that the House of Commons has voted to approve the Bill. buff.ly/EbftCdL

To support a law when so many professional organisations say is deeply flawed - and then expect those professional organisations to enact it- is reckless beyond belief.

One thing I have learnt from some years in politics, victory or defeat are rarely final. So you keep on fighting.

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Well said, ⁦Rosa Monckton⁩ mol.im/a/14836749

Today I was humbled to chair our first Unpaid Carers Support Group for staff Rashielee Care Home. We shared our stories, we reflected on what life looks like for us right now and we shed tears as well as laughter. We discussed how this might affect our working lives where we #care too.

One summer evening in 1894, Winslow Homer spent hours capturing this scene as it unfolded in front of him. It was painted in the light of the moon, and never retouched. That tiny pin-prick of red, off-centre on the horizon, is a lighthouse on Wood Island, Prouts Neck near Maine.

On the issue of Pres Trump allegation that paracetamol can cause autism, it’s worth noting that, as the Health Secretary Wes Streeting says, a major study carried out last year in Sweden, involving 2.4 million children, didn’t support this suggestion.

WWI recruitment poster - nurses urgently needed #histmed #historyofmedicine #WWI #pastmedicalhistory

Here are nine reasons why the Complex Life and Death Decisions (CLADD) group at ⁦King's College London⁩ believe the Terminally Ill Adults bill is bad law as currently drafted 👇

"By contrast with the stillness of the Neo-Impressionist’s dots, the dashes used by Van Gogh possess a much greater sense of energy and movement." seenandunseen.com/dot-and-dash-m…

My piece on stillness in illness and wellness #nursing