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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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Trust me, I’m a patient

Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.

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Why some patients make my heart sink

Instead of getting nowhere with certain demanding, manipulative patients, our anonymous GP wonders if there’s a way to help them.

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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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  • A group of doctors and medical students surround a dying patient. Watercolour attributed to T. Rowlandson.
  • John Bull as a patient, in disarray, reclines on a sofa and receives medical treatment from politicians. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1813.
  • A medical drama: a film director talks to actors playing a surgeon, a nurse and a patient. Oil painting by John Heseltine, ca. 1975/1980.
  • A medical drama: a film director talks to actors playing a surgeon, a nurse and a patient. Oil painting by John Heseltine, ca. 1975/1980.
  • Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.
  • A medical practitioner examining a urine flask and referring to a book, while the patient waits for the diagnosis;, two assistants are preparing ingredients in the background. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, 1766, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
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