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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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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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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.

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  • Conference notice on public private partnership in health care in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2004.
  • Two treatises, the one medical, of the gout, and its nature more narrowly search'd into than hitherto; together with a new way of discharging the same / ... By Herman Busschof Senior ... The other partly chirurgical, partly medical; containing some observations and practices relating both to some extraordinary cases of women in travel; and to some other uncommon cases of diseases in both sexes. By Henry van Roonhuyse ... Englished out of Dutch. By a careful hand.
  • List of public policy issues relating to HIV; fifteenth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: in the afternoon, nurses massage a patient, apply electrical muscle stimulation, knit and chat. Colour and coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A mobile health unit in Pennsylvania: a group of children with their mothers await treatment from the unit's health practitioners. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A mobile health unit in Pennsylvania: health practitioners are shown examining children outdoors, with the unit's van seen in the background. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A mobile health unit, parked in a Pennsylvania field: patients are shown awaiting treatment by the unit's health practitioners. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A mobile health unit, parked in a Pennsylvania field: women and their children are shown receiving treatment from the unit's health practitioners. Photograph, 1920/1930?.
  • A newborn, a child, a pregnant woman and a man with tetanus: vaccinating against tetanus in Kenya. Colour lithograph by KEPI, ca. 2000.
  • Bernhard Aloys von Gudden. Wood engraving, 1886.
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