Posts Tagged ‘NHS’
NHS – get some perspective
You know your country’s in trouble the minute the plane carrying Orla Guerin touches down. Guerin is the excellent BBC reporter who seems to turn up anywhere in the world that’s suffering from some catastrophe or other. She and fellow Hibernian, Fergal Keane have both made a living out of describing human misery in their…
Read MoreHow being part of a network stopped me leaving general practice, celebrating NHS Collaborate
Five years ago Dr Mark Spencer felt drained and despondent and was ready to quit. In GP Online, he explains how NHS Collaborate – a supportive network of leaders in primary care – helped him become re-energised and positive about the future of general practice. I’ve been a GP for nearly 30 years and passionately…
Read MoreWhen the shoe’s on the other foot
To truly understand someone, they say you should walk a mile in their shoes. Seeing things from somebody else’s point of view is an important part of being a better person – I suspect we all know a few bosses, employees or politicians who could benefit from taking a stroll in someone else’s footwear. Anyway,…
Read MoreI became an NHS doctor at 42. It’s the best thing I’ve done
Dr Mark Harmon is strategic director for Salix client eConsult. His story, published in the Guardian Healthcare Network, is a remarkable one. “People often wonder what life would be like if they could start over: what path they would take, what career they would choose. Ten years ago I did just that. I’d worked in…
Read MoreScaling the ladder of knowledge
Knowledge, it’s said, is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad. Pretty much ever since we started walking upright, our unquenchable thirst for knowledge has produced a raft of technological advances. Thanks to an evolutionary quirk of fate, as a species, we’ve moved from using…
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