The Hippocratic Oath actually forbids abortion.

You’d be surprised how many doctors and nurses opt out of performing, anaesthetising and referring for abortions here in the UK.

Here in the UK, individual medical professionals are allowed to opt out of being personally involved in performing abortions or referring for them, as long as they don’t obstruct the patient in obtaining one. It’s surprising how many health care providers do so, I personally know a few. It has the potential to cause…

This keeps popping up on my facebook and I went and looked at their “scientific evidence”. It was... not good science.

The Mail on Sunday posted a picture of her standing next to him right under that quote in their article.

I’m from NI and Zombie articulated so well how many of us felt about the Troubles towards the end. They just hit the nail on the head.

He could well be healthier than the average American man of his age, who would also be overweight and likely have smoked (which is a massive risk factor for all sorts of things, even if you stopped 30 years ago) at some stage.

Is it? I thought it was just the abbreviation for the basic medical degree in the US. I use Dr as my title when it’s appropriate, but I don’t have to sign as anything other than Firstname Lastname if I don’t want to (I’m in the UK). So do American doctors have to use Firstname Lastname MD even on bank accounts and…

I suspect that author’s definition of “smart, competent and professional” is “not derailed by sexual harassment”, rather than “good at the job there being paid to do”.

Care in this context means social care.

Yes, but I’m telling you what is actually happening in hospitals like the one I work in. There is also a problem leading to people stuck in A&E itself.

I had a fairly taxing day at work in the NHS yesterday, and when I saw Jeremy Hunt was still health secretary I nearly threw my laptop out the fucking window.

People do attend A&E for things they shouldn’t, but not usually in an ambulance. They have to have convinced the paramedics that they needed to be taken to hospital, or were sent in by their GP.

Yikes, I’m glad your son and your suitcase were fine.

It’s horrible that you were made to feel that way, and also horrible that I’m not surprised. My cousin just had a baby and she also didn’t progress. My dad (an old school GP) was livid at the department for not doing a C-section sooner.

All I could think during Crocodile was “Why is everyone British but they’re driving on the right?” Iceland definitely has the Peak District beat for stunning backgrounds though.

That’s particularly amusing considering Charlie Brooker’s background as a gamer and gaming/technology journalist.

I didn’t get that feeling from the c-section scene, but yeah I was a bit confused about what sort of pill her mother actually gave her. Ended up just writing it off as a near future fictional halfway house between the morning after pill and a medical abortion.

My grandfather got an MBE for being the first medic on the scene of a fairly major NI bombing. He was all chuffed until his mate one upped him with his OBE for being head of the Farmers’ Union.

In what sense? I live in England and I have no idea what you’re alluding to here.