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triple helix: summer 2012
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Christian doctors under pressure
Economic and political changes, increasing health needs and a growing hostility to Christian faith and values add up to one thing: doctors, and especially Christian doctors, are under pressure. Like most issues of Triple Helix , this one covers a broad range of topics but pressure is the unifying...
BMA resists move to go neutral on 'assisted dying
Review by Peter Saunders , CMF Chief Executive The BMA has overwhelmingly rejected a motion calling for it to adopt a neutral position on 'assisted dying' at its annual representative meeting at Bournemouth on 27 June. In so doing it has upheld its opposition to any change in the law to allow...
Christian doctors reprimanded for sharing faith
Review by Peter Saunders , CMF Chief Executive On 14 June the General Medical Council's Investigation Committee reprimanded a Christian GP who shared his faith with a patient at the end of a private consultation.1 Dr Richard Scott has now been issued with a warning which will remain on his record...
BMA backs pre-abortion counselling
Review by Philippa Taylor CMF Head of Public Policy In June the BMA held its annual representative meeting, where a motion supporting the universal availability of non-directive counselling for women considering abortion was passed by an 'overwhelming majority' of members. (1,2) This is a small but...
Industrial action and the Christian doctor
Review by Steve Fouch , CMF Head of Allied Professions Ministries Pension arrangements considered 'unfair and unnecessary' prompted the BMA to call its members out on the first industrial action since 1975. The walkout on 21 June followed a strong response to a recent ballot. (1) Public support for...
Compassion: an antidote to NHS debt and distress
Tim Lyttle gave the Rendle Short Lecture at the CMF National Conference. Catherine Butcher reports. key points - Tim Lyttle's lecture highlighted the lack of compassion in the NHS using the story of Kieran Sweeney. An avalanche of compassion is needed rather than more funding or reforms he...
Medicine behind bars
Mark Pickering highlights the opportunities in prison general practice. key points - Prison GPs have replaced the 'prison medical officer' now that prison healthcare has become part of the NHS. This means there are more opportunities for GPs to get involved in prison work. There are frustrating...
In it for the long term?
Jane Bates asks 'Is long term work overseas an outdated concept?' key points - Jane starts by considering the assumption that contemporary travel and communications have made long term medical mission a thing of the past. She recalls the encounters which prompted her to reconsider, and reflects on...
Caught unawares
Robin Fisher describes his journey to faith, medicine and mission At 25 Robin was awaiting a new army assignment, when a friend invited him to a Christian event. With only two A levels and no science qualifications, medicine seemed out of the question, but God seemed to have other plans. His career...
Encountering depression
Elizabeth Procter describes the Christian's experience of depression. key points - Depression is prevalent in Christian circles and being a Christian can lead to added difficulties for the sufferer. Often sufferers feel abandonedby God and desolate. Prayercan seem pointless. Christian doctors have...
Tolerance - society's 'supreme virtue'
Helen Barratt on the Christian response to tolerance. key points - The Christian faith is facing 'gradual marginalisation' in Britain and the notion of tolerance has become a supreme virtue. Under the rule of the 'new tolerance', there is no scope for a doctor to 'deny' a patient access to a...
Junior doctors in a new era
Naomi Pritchard describes the challenges facing today's junior doctors. glossary of terms - MTAS Medical Training Application Service - a national online scheme for job allocation launched in 2007 but now obsolete MMC Modernising Medical Careers - the new system of specialty training FY1 / FY2...
Foundations - a survival guide for junior doctors
Laurence Crutchlow (ed) CMF, 2012 £20, Hb, 158pp ISBN 978 0 90674 743 8 - Several years in the making Foundations has finally been published. It was worth the wait. First, a note about the title... You may be mistaken for thinking this book has been written exclusively for junior doctors in their...
Heaven is for real
- A little boy's astounding story of his trip to heaven and back Todd Burpo Thomas Nelson £6.50, pb, 156pp ISBN 978 0 94994 615 8 - We talk of heaven, but is it for real or is it just a nice idea? In 2003 Todd and Sonja's little boy (not quite four years old) almost died from a ruptured appendix....
Downs, the history of a disability
David Wright Oxford University Press, 2011 £14.99, Hb, 256pp ISBN 978 0 19956 793 5 - David Wright is a Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal specialising in the history of medicine, disability, philosophy, social history and law. He outlines the history of Down's syndrome from...
Hitting the rock
- Chris Maggs Purple Plum Books £6.99, Pb, 310pp ISBN 978 0 95700 680 5 - This is Chris Maggs' cancer journey, written in three parts: 'Jesus has Chemo', 'Jesus has Chemo again', and 'Matters of the Heart' - intriguing headings. The book gives an honest account of his illness and his experiences as...
The Jesus scandals - why he shocked his contemporaries
David Instone-Brewer Lion Hudson, 2012 £7.99, Pb, 192pp ISBN 978 0 85721 023 4 - Don't be put off by the front cover and title, suggestive of yet another tale in the 'religious conspiracy' genre. The 'scandals' it refers to are the very scandals of Jesus' life, relationships, ministry, and...
Changed agents: nine years in Nepal
Nick and Ros Henwood Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd, 2011 £8.99, Pb, 287pp ISBN 978 1 90844 756 2 - Years later holding hands when we returned to England felt almost conspiratorial' - one of the many memorable phrases from Nick and Ros Henwood's iconic book on cross-cultural living in Nepal. This...
The primary care guide to mental health
- M&K Publishing, 2012 £22, Pb, 102pp ISBN 978 1 90553 910 9 - This book does what it says on the tin - teaches about common mental health problems in primary care, with an emphasis on what generalists rather than specialists need to know. Each chapter gives an overview, the epidemiology, common...
Human dignity in bioethics and law
Charles Foster Hart Publishing, 2011 £30, Pb, 183pp ISBN 978 1 84946 177 1 - Human dignity has become a much maligned term partly because it is seen as undefinable and inherently theological. Charles Foster's book, which argues that dignity is the only sustainable 'Theory of Everything' in...
eutychus
Baby boxes back in Eastern Europe - A court case in Germany where a mother was prosecuted for killing her baby by throwing it from a fifth-floor balcony is boosting demand for baby boxes across Central and Eastern Europe. Germany already boasts 99 baby boxes; a heated box, monitored by nurses...
divine triage
Andrew Miller explores the healing of the woman suffering from menorrhagia - Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus' feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his only daughter, a...