Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown
Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
Catalogue
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Where night is day : the world of the ICU / James Kelly.
Kelly, James, 1948-Date: 2013- Books
Practice & progress : medical care in central Illinois at the turn of the century / J. Edward Day, Susan M. Harmon, Thomas D. Masters.
Day, James Edward, 1914-Date: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation
Medical Womens' FederationDate: 1879-1988Reference: SA/MWF- Archives and manuscripts
Representation and report on One Day Conference 'Non-Accidental Injury to Children', 19 Jun 1974, and comments on report of the Committee of Enquiry into the care and supervision provided in relation to Maria Colwell
Date: May-Nov 1974Reference: SA/SMO/L.167Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Books
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Observations on the preliminary care and attention necessary for accidental bodily injuries and mutilations occurring in mines and establishments where many workpeople are employed / by T. Longmore.
Longmore, Sir Thomas, 1816-1895.Date: [1874]