Stories
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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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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.
Catalogue
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Nursing services and insurance for medical care in Brattleboro, Vermont : a study of the activities of the Thomas Thompson Trust / by Allon Peebles and Valeria D. McDermott.
Peebles, Allon, 1900-1962.Date: [1932]- Books
A survey of the medical facilities of the state of Vermont / by Allon Peebles.
Peebles, Allon, 1900-1962.Date: [1932]- Books
The healing cults : a study of sectarian medical practice: its extent, causes, and control / by Louis S. Reed.
Reed, Louis S., 1902-1975.Date: [1932], ©1932- Books
A community medical service organized under industrial auspices in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina / by I.S. Falk, Don M. Griswold, and Hazel I. Spicer ; with reports on certain phases of the organization by David Riesman, and George P. Muller.
Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984.Date: [1932]- Books
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The Implications of cost-effectiveness analysis of medical technology.
Date: 1980-1982