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Dr Sarah Jarvis
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Sarah Jarvis is a GP, GP trainer and fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

She is also a medical writer and broadcaster, and is currently the BBC Radio 2 doctor and doctor to the One Show on BBC1, Good Housekeeping, My Weekly and AXA PPP magazines, as well as spending 10 years as ITN lunchtime News doctor. She also contributes regularly to Daybreak, Sky News and BBC Radio 5 live. She has been a regular contributor to a variety of medical magazines and journals including Update, Doctor, Practice Nurse, the British Journal of Cardiology and Cardiology News.

She has been the Women’s Health tutor for the University of Bath/Royal College of GPs course on women’s health, as well as the Women’s Health spokesperson for the RCGP and chair of the Health Care Committee of HEART UK, the cholesterol charity.


She has authored Diabetes for Dummies, Pregnancy for Dummies, Children’s Health for Dummies, The younger woman’s Diagnose-It-Yourself guide to Health, Women’s Health for Life (winner of the BMA popular medicine book award) and The Welcome Visitor, a book on ethical dilemmas at the end of life co-authored with the broadcaster John Humphrys.

Blog Entries by Dr Sarah Jarvis

Little Steps Can Make a Big Difference to Stress Levels

1 Comments | Posted 31 January 2012 | 23:00

A new survey based on research by Patient.co.uk has revealed we are more stressed since the recession hit two years ago. At first sight, perhaps, a statement of the blindingly obvious. But teasing out the results shows worrying trends in behaviour that could exact a heavy toll on our health.

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