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Strategies from a Christian Physician John Dunlop Crossway, 2011 £9.99 pB 222PP ISBN 978 1 43351 347 3 Dr Dunlop writes from long experience as a Christian and a geriatrician. He garners from his experience stories of patients and acquaintances which illustrate strategies for preparing for an managing the end...
Through My Eyes is a man's story of his wife's illness and death from cancer, written by a Pentecostal minister in Nottingham. Stephen's wife Lesley was diagnosed with a rare nasopharyngeal tumour in her early thirties and died four years later leaving him with a young daughter. The book is...
On 28 September the Court of Protection ruled in favour of life in the case of M, a 53 year old woman who suffered severe brain damage as a result of viral encephalitis in 2003. M's sister and partner wanted artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) given via a gastrostomy tube to...
Having only sneaked into the 2006 National Student Conference by virtue of my wife still being at medical school, I was greately encouraged by Mark Ashton's talks on Matthew - well at least by the two I managed to hear before leaving early to start a week of nights! Only a...
New figures from The Lancet reveal the tragedy of the scale of stillbirths, estimated at around 3 million worldwide, every year; more than 8,200 stillborn babies a day. This vast number eclipses deaths from AIDS/HIV and many other diseases that get far more money. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 98% of these are...
The growing public support for physician-assisted dying is driven by many factors, including a consumer driven culture of individualism and choice. This is essentially self-centred, and undervalues our interdependence – the essence of a caring and loving society demonstrated by strong intergenerational ties and the commitment to care for the...
