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Dying at home and the doctor’s role

Our anonymous GP talks about the bittersweet rewards of supporting a patient when he chose to die at home.

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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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Queer cafés and gay mylk

Holly Regan explores queer London spaces where the alternative – oat milk – is the norm for the communities gathering there.

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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me

Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.

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  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: the medical college and nursing home. Wood engraving by E. G. after F. Watkins, 1887.
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • The Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911) : as supplied to hospitals and nursing homes : sole makers of the genuine yaghourt preparations for life prolonging : 22, Great Chapel Street, (corner of 101-103 Oxford St.) Oxford Street, W.1., London / Boudja Manoli Yaghourt Co. (1911).
  • University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.
  • University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.
  • Queen's District Training Home, Essex County Training Home, Leytonstone: nurses standing outside the home. Photograph by Chas. E. Webber, ca. 1900 (?).
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