Member's Blog

I write a weekly blog for members, on a wide range of topics around health and the heart. Non-members can explore the topics below to see what I write on a week by week basis. If you'd like to join, click here to find out more.

 

Stories from the coal face

I’m coming to the end of a busy week on-call, and now very much looking forward to a day off tomorrow! I see so many patients during a week on-call, that there are always some interesting cases for my weekly blog, and this has certainly been the case this week. From a ‘human factors’ perspective, […]

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Trials and tribulations

Every time I look at a medical journal these days it seems there are more trials and studies coming out about weight loss drugs, but not necessarily about the weight loss itself. An issue however, is that without large randomised controlled trials, it can be hard to make definitive conclusions. We know for sure from […]

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Personalised medicine

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A very rare finding of a very common test

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The next chapter

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The hardest day of my life

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The polypill

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One of my pet peeves

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Athletic inspiration

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What has viagra got to do with the heart?

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A humbling experience

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A hidden epidemic

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I don’t want good i want excellent

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An emotional week

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Weight loss ‘wonder drugs’

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New Year’s resolutions

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Happy New Year

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What’s an incidentaloma?

I wanted to write today though about a story you may have seen in the news this week. Davina McCall gave her first interview after having brain surgery to remove a benign growth called a colloid cyst. Whilst benign, these can still cause problems if they grow, by compressing other structures within the brain. Poor […]

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What a difference a week makes

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I won’t forget last Thursday as long as I live

The plan I had for this week’s blog went out the window on Thursday night this week, for what turned out to be a night I shall never forget. Each year, my colleague and I take our amazing Dorset heart failure team out for a Christmas meal, and this year’s event was on Thursday at […]

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I should know better

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Festive season approaching

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Sudden death

I always like to include real-life events in my blogs, and this week just such a case presented itself. I trained in cardiology in London, at the Heart Hospital and Bart’s (both now amalgamated on one site). I have fond memories of my training, and got a ‘blast from the past’ email this week from […]

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Inspirational people

One of our members wrote in with an important point this week. She is 77 and trains twice each week, and wanted to know why the exercise advice petered out for the >60s. She felt ladies >60 may feel it isn’t relevant or important to them. Receiving feedback like this is great for many reasons.  […]

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