For those of us that work within the acute hospital system, the sound of the trauma pager going off warning of an incoming casualty with...
This year (2014) is the centenary year of the beginning of the Great War. This conflict brought with it a cluster of emotional disorders that...
I went into medicine with the clichéd view of wanting to help people. I found that by doing surgery I could help a small number...
The Fellowship in Clinical Leadership programme, more commonly known as the ‘Darzi Fellowship,’ commenced in 2009. It was designed to provide junior doctors at the...
For a profession proud of its adherence to an evidence base, medicine has been remarkably slow to acknowledge and to act on the evidence which...
I have been asked to share some of the initiatives I have been involved with to address ENT-related challenges in Africa and the developing world....
Challenges The first challenge is to agree what we mean by the term leadership because there are many different ways in which the term is...
When Nigel Beasley approached me to write on my experience of clinical management, I was a little surprised. I see myself as primarily a clinician,...
DNA structure and replication Genetic information within multicellular organisms, including man, is stored in molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which reside within the chromosomes of...
By their very nature, late-onset hereditary disorders offer a large window of opportunity for therapeutic intervention. However, before we can begin to think about strategies...
Otitis media (OM), a common disease of childhood, is considered to be a complex trait with multiple genetic and environmental factors expected to contribute to...
Introduction Cancer cases continue to increase worldwide, and head and neck cancer is a major global health issue, with an estimated global burden of over...