The Dobbing Doctor

I didn't make a new year's resolution this year. Mostly because any previous ones I've made, go out the window within a couple o...

In August my new trust sent an email asking for candidates to become the hospital's Junior Doctor representative on the BMA local negoti...

I originally wrote this post in September but deleted it after I became a local junior doctor BMA rep and realised it isn't exactly comp...

This crowdfunder is to allow us to monitor the air quality in Northampton and hold the council to account on their low emission strategy.

Since the new junior doctor contract hit the headlines about 6 months ago, I've been asked my opinion by medical and non medical friend...

Many people have eloquently expounded the problems with the contract from a patient safety point of view.  The government have said I won...

Last weekend there was a twitter tag #iminworkjeremy which got big enough to be picked up by the mainstream media. My Twitter feed being a s...

6 month between posts, you could be forgiven for thinking this blog had gone on permanent hiatus. Just been bust moving house, starting yet ...

"It's only a silly game." With my 2 favourite sports being football and cricket, today was a big deal for me, with England g...

"You're not doing nothing, Doctor." From time to time, I have to deal with unhappy patients or staff members. This is part a...

"You need to broaden your horizons." It's nice to be able to expand on something in more detail than 140 characters, having ...

One of the few things I do which doesn't involve work and makes me happy is playing football. Now I'm no professional but I played f...

Much is made of the 4 hour waiting target for A&E departments in the UK and various hospitals' adherence to the target as well as me...

A perpetual state of war is the perfect environment for innovation in healthcare to flourish and nowhere is this more in n...

Where I work in RuralTown a vast majority of births are in the hospital. We don't have any home birth midwives as far as I know, and we...

So 7 months have passed since my last post, I bet you all thought I had disappeared for ever. No? Don't care? Thought not. ...

Rant 1: Circumcising babies for no medical reason. I have worked in paediatric surgery for 6 months, so I am aware I see skewed picture....

When I was a medical student we had an interesting PBL topic where we were given the scenario of being stuck on a desert island with a ...