I was most delighted of all this Christmas to get a Rubik’s Cube from my son, largely because it made me laugh that I’d first owned one when I was roughly his age.  I was never able to work it out and like a lot of ten-year olds, I’d more than once peeled off the […]

We’ve now seen a couple of case of Ebola in the United Kingdom, each of them healthcare professionals from the UK who volunteered to travel to west Africa to assist with the looming disaster there.  I couldn’t be prouder of those nurses for their work and nothing that follows is about the healthcare that they […]

Imagine two medical problems had occurred involving two separate people – an elderly lady suffering a serious asthma attack or chest pains and a young child who falls and hits his head and scrapes his hands after falling whilst playing.  In terms of clinical assessment, any paramedics called to the scene may suggest A&E for […]