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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”

Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.

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Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web

Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.

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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain

After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.

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  • Guy's Hospital Bicentenary: X-ray therapy for cancer
  • X-ray therapy dept, Marie Curie Hospital, 1934
  • Radiography : X-ray therapeutics and radium therapy / by Robert Knox.
  • Advertisement for Picker X-rays, showing a woman receiving therapy from a Zephyr machine.
  • Proton CT of a human skull
  • CT scan; brain cancer (glioma), post-treatment
  • Proton CT of a human head
  • Tuberculous pericarditis and HIV
  • Steps in producing a proton CT of a human phantom head
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