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With healthcare issues in the news almost every day, it's vital that the voices of Christians in the medical profession are heard in public debate. Some Christians have a natural aptitude for working with the media. For most of us, however, some basic training can make a huge difference to...
A young woman in her late twenties presented at Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya with a vesico-vaginal fistula. For four years she had been a social outcast, rejected by her husband and village because of the 'shame' of her condition. Further enquiry uncovered a history of female genital mutilation in childhood which...
'Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.'[1] A new GP in the Netherlands treated a 78-year-old patient with a chronic illness and increasing breathlessness. Her life expectancy was two months. She asked him for euthanasia but he didn't like the idea of taking...
Clare Cooper looks at an agency in crisis Isaiah tells us that God 'tends his flock like a shepherd: he gathers the lambs in his arms…he gently leads those that have young'.[1] Sadly, humankind does not always follow God's example. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is one of the...
'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 everything in the doctor's hands. At other times it seems that...
