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If my current obstetrics and gynaecology placement has taught me anything, it's the need for Christian medics to be firmly rooted in their convictions. I'd considered myself pretty clued up ethically: I believe abortion isn't right, I've worked through in my mind why I think this (I've even written for...
I live under the flight path into London Heathrow - the world's busiest international airport. Every day hundreds of planes pass low over my roof and I often wonder about the passengers they are carrying: where they've come from, who they are, why they're here. My flat is also only...
Perhaps the thing that struck me most at this year's CMF National Students' Conference (pp4,5) was how reluctant we are to think. The teaching in the main talks was of a standard we rarely encounter and it was clear that many of us are not used to exercising our critical...
One of the aspects of medicine I find most difficult is dealing with people who are hurting, whether this is physical pain or mental anguish. At times it seems horrific that as a student the moment at which a patient has their life turned upside down by a diagnosis, accident...
Autumn is traditionally a time of new beginnings in the academic world. For some of you, this may have meant moving away from home, leaving friends and family and starting medical school. For others it may have been starting house jobs whilst, for many, the start of the new term...
New laws are needed to prevent the misuse of genetic samples, the Government’s genetic advisors have warned. If the slide towards a ‘Big Brother’ society is to be halted, the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) says tougher measures are needed to make it a criminal offence to test someone’s DNA or...
Earlier this year, at a meeting organised in London by the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, Professor Nigel Cameron presented a refreshing view of the Christian perspective of the cloning debate. Professor Cameron is currently executive chair of the Centre for Bioethics in Public Policy in the UK and he is founder...
The case of a junior doctor denied a post on the General Practice Training Scheme because he refused to clerk patients for elective abortions has caused a media storm in Scotland, re-igniting the debate about abortion and conscientious objection. Dr Everett Julyan, a member of CMF, said that two members...
The abortion and conscientious objection debate was re-ignited this March when a CMF member was denied a general practice rotation because he refused to clerk patients for elective abortions. When asked, Dr Everett Julyan told the interview panel that he would neither prepare patients for nor perform abortions because of...
Britain is set to approve therapeutic cloning. The Donaldson Committee Report, commissioned by the British Government, has recommended that scientists should be allowed to clone stem cells from human embryos to create new tissue for medical and research purposes. (This differs from reproductive cloning, which involves the creation of duplicate...
