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Patient Banned From Surgery After Tweeting About Waiting Times

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.03.2013 | UK
Read More: Matthew Cochrane, Twitter User Banned From Doctors Surgery, Twitter, UK News, Surgery, In Penarth, Stanwell Surgery, Doctors, South Wales, Doctor, UK News

A cystic fibrosis sufferer has been excluded from his local GP surgery after posting an "offensive tweet" about staff. Mathew Cochrane, 26, express...

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Doctor Removes Wrong Fallopian Tube Leaving Patient Unable To Conceive Naturally

PA | Posted 15.08.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Surgery Mistakes., Mistakes, Doctor, Samina Tahseen, Removes Wrong Fallopian Tube, Bad Practice, UK News

A doctor who removed the wrong fallopian tube from a patient, leaving her unable to conceive naturally, has been criticised for her "hasty, careless, ...

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Female Intellect: A Renaissance?

Preetam Kaushik | Posted 30.09.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Doctor, Sartre, Clinton, Women, Computer, Leonardo Da Vinci, Hillary-Clinton-Karadashians, Newton, Media, George Eliot, China, Intellect, Pioneer, Greece, UK Lifestyle News
Preetam Kaushik

Intellect and power are words which by default we associate with masculinity. History records a long list of powerful people, political leaders, scientists, engineers, philosophers, writers, artists' et al, mostly male.

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Talks Over Doctors' Pensions Could Reopen After BMA Action

PA | Posted 22.06.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Gp, Andrew Lansley, Pension Reforms, Industrial Action, Doctors, Doctor, Patients, British Medical Association, News, Bma, UK News

Negotiations over doctors' pension reforms could reopen today after GPs and hospital doctors staged their first industrial action in almost 40 years. ...

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Disruption To Patients 'Minimal' During BMA Action

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.06.2012 | UK
Read More: Gp, UK News, Andrew Lansley, Pension Reforms, Industrial Action, Doctors, Doctor, Patients, British Medical Association, News, Bma, UK News

Only 1 in 10 patients have had operations, appointments or treatments rescheduled due to the industrial action by the British Medical Association's (B...

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Me, Myself and I

Dr Martin Lee | Posted 15.08.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: Doctor, Fundraiser, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Charity, Kayaking, Arthritis, UK Sport News
Dr Martin Lee

Today I'm enjoying a well deserved day off, having made the most of the gorgeous weather we had, and in less than five weeks, conquered Scotland.

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When Doctors Go On Strike Patients Stop Dying

Dr Raj Persaud | Posted 13.07.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: UK Doctor, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Medicine, Health, Doctor Strike, Nhs, UK Lifestyle News
Dr Raj Persaud

As doctors start voting from today on whether to strike in the UK, what's the likely impact of withdrawing medical care on the health of the nation? The doctor's union, the British Medical Association, seems to be gambling that the government doesn't want to alarm the electorate.

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NHS Patients Waiting Longer To Have Surgery

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK
Read More: Knee Replacements, NHS Reforms, UK News, Health, Patients Association, Andrew Lansley, Poll, Hernia, Waiting Times, Doctor, Hip Operations, Patients, News, Healthcare, Nhs, UK News

NHS patients are having to wait longer to have surgery and fewer operations are taking place, according to new data. Waiting times went up by an av...

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The Hazards of Being Healthy

Dr Sneh Khemka | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Pain, Sports, Accident, Sneh Khemka, Active, Healthy, Snow, Health, Bupa, Scar, Doctor, Adventurous, Skiing, UK Media, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News
Dr Sneh Khemka

I started thinking - how often do people put themselves at risk in the pursuit of good health? How often do people end up injured, in hospital or left needing long-term treatment because of skiing or other leisure activities? What's the cost of sporting injuries, both to our health and financially, in comparison to being inactive?

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Doctors With HIV 'Could Be Allowed To Work In NHS'

PA | Posted 01.12.2011 | UK
Read More: UK News, UK Impact, Virus, Health, Aids, Pa, Hiv, Anaesthetic, Gay, Doctor, Patients, Dentist, Medicine, News, Nhs Workers, Hepatitis, UK News

A Government consultation will determine whether restrictions on NHS workers with HIV should be relaxed after a review found an "extremely low" risk o...

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Method In The Madness: Doctors 'Should Look To Shakespeare' To Diagnose Patients

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 24.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Depression, Emotional, Psychology, Drugs, Patients, Stress, UK News, King Lear, Humanities, Health, Arts, Hamlet, Doctor, Shakespeare, Othello, Medicine, News, UK News

Doctors should to look to Shakespeare to explain their patients’ symptoms, according to a new study. Analysis of the Bard’s major works showed...

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Doctors Should Lose Power To Sign Off Patients Long-Term, Says Tory Minister

PA | Posted 19.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Conservatives, Lord Freud, Sick Leave, Welfare Reform, National Health Service, Doctor, Gps, Tory, UK Politics News

Stripping GPs of the power to sign patients off on long-term sick leave could lead to "fewer wasted lives", a Tory minister has insisted. Lord Freu...

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Dannii Minogue Receives Honorary Degree

www.mydaily.co.uk | Posted 09.01.2012 | UK Style
Read More: Southampton Solent, Honorary Degree, Mortar Board, Doctor of Media, Gown, Fashion, Doctor, Dannii Minogue, Mydaily, UK Style News

Congratulations Dannii! MyDaily's contributing editor has today been awarded an honorary degree in recognition of her outstanding work within the ente...

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