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.

Many seem to like my recently published book on addiction. Here's what I often get: "Dr. Ferentzy offers an interesting and challenging perspective ..." In such cases I will thank someone for their kind words, but then quickly counter: everything I wrote in that book is true; perspective is irrelevant.

For many people, when they are told that they have cancer, it will be the first time that they have confronted their own mortality. Of course, they will have known that they were going to die one day. We all do. But it is probably not something they have dwelt upon, and made peace with.

It probably takes a lot to phase comedian Jimmy Carr. But a moulded plastic mask of Einstein's head managed to do that on an episode of QI. Why? Bec...

Legalise the drugs, and even the abstainers will have a chance at a much healthier, less resentful, and happier time in their recovery.

Mrs Drucker died as a result of a doctor's error. Who says so? The doctor. Dr Brian Goldman was a resident in the Emergency Department of a teachin...

"Have you noticed how everything seems a little impersonal nowadays? We have all become user names, reference numbers and IP addresses." Thus spake S...

The way doctor-patient relationships have evolved was pinpointed recently in the House of Lords by Lord Walton, an experienced neurologist and physician.

"Your bags will be on carousel B - that's 'B' for Botox". This quip from the Virgin Atlantic flight service manager got a laugh from the passengers as we touched down in the City of Angels, Los Angeles, where agelessness is often at a premium.

"Satisfaction guaranteed (or take your love back)" sang Harold Melvyn with gusto during my halycon days as a disco DJ. I am not sure the crowds would...

Yesterday you were shy, bereaved, apathetic, eccentric. Today you are mentally ill. But don't worry. Nothing has changed except some new labelling ...