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In this series of posts, I answer questions from medical students and doctors interested in getting into Occupational Medicine. If you...

In this series of posts, I answer questions from medical students and doctors interested in getting into Occupational Medicine. If you...

In this series of posts, I answer questions from medical students and doctors interested in getting into Occupational Medicine. If you...

In this series of posts, I answer questions from medical students and doctors interested in getting into Occupational Medicine. If you...

In this series of posts, I answer questions from medical students and doctors interested in getting into Occupational Medicine. If you...

Public Health England’s online COVID tracker has been a triumph. It must be developed further to help the UK build back better.

Too many clinics take far too long. Often this happens because of things that clinicians don’t control. The clinic might be overloaded,...

I'm scared of needles. Not quite burst-into-tears, run-outside, sick in a bin scared. More sweaty-palmed, breathe-a-bit-faster,...

Public transport is safe. As in any environment where there are people around, there are some things we can all do to keep safe and minimise

"It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Saying this on November 10th 1942, Churchill was...

My phone counts my steps. I've got a heart rate monitor, a sleep tracker and bathroom scales that connect to an app and show me a graph...

January gym-goers always leave me feeling somewhat conflicted. On the one hand, they appear en-masse like a carpet of spandexed cicadas,...

Google “holistic medicine” and you get a list of websites that talk about alternative medicine. There are many links to worthless...

October 2nd-6th 2017 is National Work Life Week. Here are seven reasons you might want to ignore it. 1) You want to be less efficient at...

A year ago, I was about to start a new job as an occupational medicine registrar, and wrote a bit about what I expected from quite a...

Ian Paterson, a former surgeon, has been jailed for 15 years for performing unnecessary operations on patients who trusted him. He was...

Foam rollers, according to GQ, are for lovers. I thought this was worth a click – I’ve got a foam roller, I wanted to see if this article...

I was a doctor in the NHS for 10 years, and then I left. When I was thinking of leaving I was amazed at the terrible advice and useless...

As an orthopaedic registrar, occupational medicine meant two things to me; questionnaires and hepatitis B blood tests. On starting work...