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triple helix: autumn 2002
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GMC Guidance - A big improvement on the first draft
The General Medical Council finally published its guidance on withdrawing treatment in August 2002 after a consultation period of over a year. The final version of Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Treatments: Good practice in Decision-making is a far more balanced document than the...
Pray for Rowan Williams
Church affairs are generally outside the scope of Triple Helix, but the choice of Rowan Williams as 104th Archbishop of Canterbury warrants an exception to the rule. We urge CMF members and the wider readership of Triple Helix to uphold Dr Williams fervently in their prayers, especially over the...
Fertility furore - Reaping the Whirlwind
Black twins to white parents? Custody disputes over frozen embryos? An embryo superstore? This summer season's fertility fiascos have further highlighted the fact that the end of providing infertile couples with babies, does not justify unethical means (Romans 3:8). Whilst welcoming ethical...
Poverty and Health
The Department for International Development (DFID) aims to reduce poverty as one of its development goals. And yet starting with the 1977 Almata Declaration of Health for All by the Year 2000, similar initiatives have so far failed to deliver. 1.2 billion people still live in absolute poverty and...
Psychological Trauma After Abortion
There is strong evidence that women who choose abortion subsequently suffer from higher rates of depression, self-harm, psychiatric hospitalisation, attempted suicide and suicide than those who carry their babies to term. Factors associated with a negative psychological outcome include low social...
The Morning After Pill
Levonelle-2 replaced Yuzpe as the preferred method of 'emergency contraception' on the basis of a 1998 WHO trial. The manufacturers Schering and the government have repeatedly asserted that Levonelle-2 cannot affect an established pregnancy, and yet in the trial it reduced expected pregnancy rates...
Good News Censored?
The approach to faith in medicine needs to become more balanced writes Adrian Treloar. - 'Doctors warned against preaching to patients' was the headline provoked by the Spring edition of Triple Helix.[1,2] The place of evangelism in doctors' daily work is a sensitive issue and the response was a...
Faith Moving Mountains
Liz Croton reflects on the 2002 ICMDA World Congress, held in Taiwan - There's always a big temptation to sign up for a Christian Conference on account of the exotic location. I had always wanted to visit Taiwan. It had always captured my imagination even though I knew little about it and had met...
Battle Fatigue
As Christian doctors we fight bureaucracy, work pressure, stress, ambition and selfishness, but our real enemy is the 'Prince of this world', who knows that our exhaustion is helpful to his cause. Stress increases alertness, vigilance, strength, endurance and cohesion, but if it overwhelms our...
Stealing Doctors
The government is actively recruiting doctors from developing countries in an attempt to make up for inadequate training numbers, part-time working and early retirement. While it is natural for skilled doctors in developing countries to be attracted by the better lifestyle and security offered in...
A Shetland-Samara Partnership
Bruce Cleminson on how Christian are poineering hospice work in Russia - In 1996, there was a severe downturn in the Russian economy after the collapse of communism. There was so little money available for the provision of health care that people dying of cancer in Samara, Russia's 4th largest...
Eutychus
Stress and emotional exhaustion linked - Emotional exhaustion is the key precursor of stress according to a longitudinal study of UK doctors published in The Lancet . High levels of personal accomplishment increased stress, but by contrast depersonalisation - treating patients as objects rather...
Jesus the Healer - Paradigm or Unique Phenomenon? (Book Review)
Jesus the Healer - Paradigm or Unique Phenomenon? - Keith Warrington - Paternoster Press 2000 - £19.99 Pb 208 pp ISBN 0853648220 - This book is a paradox. It has an intensely relevant message that broadly states that we should not equate the healing ministry of Jesus with our own Christian healing...
What are you feeling, Doctor? (Book Review)
What are you feeling, Doctor? - John Salinsky & Paul Sakin - Radcliffe 2000 - Pb 174pp ISBN 1857754077 - If you find practising medicine easy then this book is not for you. For the rest of us it is a thoughtful and at times embarrassingly relevant read. The book is the result of a Balint group...
Lives In The Balance (Book Review)
Lives In The Balance - Dr Debbie Lovell - Eagle Publishing 2000 - £7.99 Pb 260 pp ISBN 086347392X - This little book seeks to bring a message of hope to those people who are suffering from a broad range of eating disorders including binge eating disorder (compulsive eating), bulimia nervosa and...
I'm Not Supposed to Feel Like This (Book Review)
I'm Not Supposed to Feel Like This - Chris Williams, Paul Richards and Ingrid Whitton - Hodder & Stoughton 2002 - £6.99 Pb 280 pp ISBN 0340786396 - This is an excellent book, written by a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, the pastor of a Baptist Church and a Consultant Psychiatrist in Leeds. It...
Health, Healing and God's Kingdom (Book Review)
Health, Healing and God's Kingdom - William Meredith Long - Paternoster Publishing 2000 - £9.99 Pb 260 pp ISBN 1870345363 - 'Compassion is the immune response of the body of Christ. ...What sets (the church) apart is not that its members suffer, but that the whole body responds to that suffering by...
A Practical Workbook for the Depressed Christian (Book Review)
A Practical Workbook for the Depressed Christian - John Lockley - Authentic Publishing, 2nd Edition 2002 - £12.99 pb 478 pp ISBN 1 86024 226 X - I welcome this book, as I did the first edition in 1991. The author has been a GP since 1976 and is described as a writer of three novels and Christian...
Abortion: Choosing Who Lives (Book Review)
Abortion: Choosing Who Lives - Rick Simpson - Grove Books Limited, Ridley Hall, Cambridge 2002 - £2.50 pb 30 pp ISBN 1851745033 - Rick Simpson, a parish priest, has written this booklet in the Grove Books series as 'a Christian ethical reflection on the process by which abortions are authorised in...
Service with Authority
Clare Cooper thinks about the doctor-patient relationship - 'Well, I don't know. You're the doctor!' I've heard this response from time to time in the consulting room. Efforts to involve the patient in decision making are not always understood or appreciated. At times patients want to leave...