People on mainland social media have expressed outrage over a vlogger in China who is operating a “matchmaking” service for disabled women which many online observers claim is tantamount to putting the women up for auction.
I wore a wig for a year after I had a stem cell transplant. The wig wasn’t for vanity as much as not wanting to be defined by having had chemotherapy. I didn’t want a label, stigma, judgment, or pity. I’ve written a pamphlet for surgeons on Avoiding Unconscious Bias ,1 and I know that being perceived to fit in is sometimes easier than being your authentic self. Returning to work as a surgeon, I treasured each interaction with patients, working alongside colleagues old and new, in a role I thought I’d never do again.
In medicine, and more widely, we’re stuck in a paradox. We have access to excessive amounts of information, yet simple messages get drowned out. Through my experience as both a patient and a surgeon I’ve come to value clearly communicated …
The cutting of funding for community and voluntary groups in the north is "short-sighted", Stormont has been warned as organisations met with a department head to plead their case.
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The Department of Health and Social Care’s new Major Conditions Strategy 1 starts strongly, detailing how the nation’s health has deteriorated and the large volume of ill health looming. Unfortunately, it follows this with recommendations entirely focused on rearranging health services, not making society healthier.
The evidence base is stunning. The strategy includes over 230 references and footnotes cataloguing the long term impact of common conditions especially multiple comorbidities on patients, society, and the economy. Nearly half a million more people are economically inactive from long term sickness than before the pandemic.2 The strategy acknowledges that over 40% of the burden of ill health is attributable to identified risk factors: tobacco smoking, obesity and diet related factors, low physical activity, pollution, and alcohol.3 Health inequalities are detailed in the strategy, including a …