Hands up, who needs a holiday? (Me! Me!). It’s been an exhausting 6 months in General Practice, and many of us will be eyeing up July and August with a sense of relief that a well earned holiday is not...
In the middle of a busy day yesterday, I had a call from Mrs A who reported that when her local pharmacy had dispensed a new brand of her levothyroxine she had experienced a recurrence of her symptoms...
As Simon discussed in our blog last week, there has been real concern that one of the many groups impacted (both directly and indirectly) as a result of the pandemic are those with diabetes. Inevitably...
You take a call tomorrow from Mr Ali. He is 68 and has type 2 diabetes. He is calling about recent onset heel pain and has what sounds like plantar fasciitis. You give appropriate advice, signpost self-help...
It would be fair to say that eyes are generally not my thing. Watching clamped eyes being operated on makes me squeamish and removing corneal foreign bodies with the help of a 21 gauge needle and a slit...
As every GP knows, we are life-saving superheroes. We put on our superhero capes every day, we fly to work (Is it a bird? Is it a plane?) and we save lives. Between us, we save literally thousands of lives...