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Are doctors medical detectives?

Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.

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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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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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Confronting male stereotypes in the classroom

Sometimes men just don’t like football. Writer and teacher Okechukwu Nzelu decides to be himself in front of his students.

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  • Medical students of an Australian college (Melbourne Medical School?): class portrait. Photograph, 1909.
  • Staff and students of the Medical School, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • Students in theTeaching laboratory, Medical School, Yakusu Hospital, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • Students in theTeaching laboratory, Medical School, Yakusu Hospital, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • A gagging man surrounded by confused consultants and medical students. Coloured etching, 1800.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: recreation room for students. Photograph, 1921.
  • Doctors or medical students listening to their heartbeats using a multiple stethoscope. Photograph.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: recreation room for students. Photograph, 1921.
  • Medical electricity : a practical handbook for students and practitioners / by H. Lewis Jones.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: women students in a laboratory. Photograph, 1921.
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