05 May 2011
| by Liam Farrell, Best columnist: MJA Awards 2011
practice.
Then, to my discomfiture, my toothache got better. I was astonished; the pain in my tooth was gone, but the pain in my heart may never heal. The mirror has cracked from side to side, the Lady ...
more disturbing.
And most painful was that I had no expectations, and the placebo effect was nil ...
Rheumatology Society president Dr Louise Warburton, a GPSI in rheumatology and musculoskeletal medicine, fears ...
of PCT representatives,' she says. 'Working in an interface musculoskeletal service is nothing like ...
is happening to take this forward
Dr Martin Johnson, a pain management GPSI in Barnsley, says the process ...
24 Mar 2011
| by Mary Selby
When I said I wouldn't deliver either Champix or Rothmans he went slightly too far and decided he actually had chest pain.
Threatened with ambulance control he then admitted that his chest pain was actually not in his chest at all, and indeed wasn't pain, it had been a misunderstanding ... although once ...
10 Mar 2011
| by Liam Farrell
by the merry sound of breaking crockery, which ended with; 'You'd better come anyway, Joe is having chest pain.'
'What is the pain like?' I asked, aware I was being played like a fish on a hook, the difference being a ...
, checking that (a) the fight was over, and (b) the TV was safe.
'Chest pain gone, is it?' I said ...
03 Nov 2011
| by Liam Farrell, Best columnist: MJA Awards 2011
an ill humour, and central crushing chest pain radiating to my left arm and all,' she said; even ...
.
'Beloved, my pain was a mere contrivance,' she said, stroking my bald patch meaningfully. 'I grow lonely ...
02 May 2012
| by Dr Clare Gerada
a syringe driver for terminal pain as our forebears were to prescribe penicillin for a strep throat ...
07 Jul 2011
| by Mary Selby
too painful to ignore. 'Mr Bloat,' quoth I, trapping him in my basilisk gaze in search of some audible ...
We have to reduce our referrals, they declared. It's essential and if we don't, there will be dire consequences. This is all very well, but who should I refuse to admit? That man with the chest pain? The woman with the acute abdomen which might be appendicitis (but then again, might not)?
It's easy for non ...
07 Mar 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
mess. It is only right that we should take our share of the pain.
In reality, we doctors are getting ...
18 Jan 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
. The intensity and pressure of the work (inflicting all that pain) would inevitably take its toll.
Even now ...