King's College Medical School Just under a year ago, I wrote an article about King’s College Medical School dumbing down its entry requirement. This was the Extended Medical Degree Programme (EDMP) (EMDP) aimed to attract bright students from state schools in inner London who had A-level results that were far too poor to gain entry to medical school and show that, with the right help, they could...

FRESH calls were made yesterday for the release of the Lockerbie bomber's medical records after reports that he could be dead within a month.

First, do no harm. The phrase expresses one of the principal precepts all medical students are taught in medical school and is a fundamental principle for the emergency medical services. It reminds the physician and other health care providers that he or she must consider the possible harm that any intervention might do. I was reading the reports on the the Iraqi NHS doctor who tried to murder tho...

Dr Michael Fitzpatrick talks to James Le Fanu, the one-time scourge of those medical practitioners who blamed lifestyle or pollution for ill health, to find out if he really has made peace with the medical establishment.

David Jones (not his real name) is a medical student at a famous London teaching hospital. There are too many of us. There have been too many of us since a decade ago when the British government figured that the best way to pander to the people was to look like it was improving healthcare. The men in the Palace of Westminster went "Hey, lets make loads of people go to medical school" and the Briti...

The Daily Telegraph has an article defending the idea that general practitioners can and sometimes do out-earn the banking business. Of course, people have not traditionally gone into the medical field looking to make millions, although some innovators of medical patents, for instance, may have done just that. Generally speaking, I take the view that so long as doctors are operating in a free mark...

The medical professions are to press the justice secretary, Jack Straw, today to exempt personal medical records from the widespread data-sharing powers in his coroners and justice bill. A letter from eight healthcare organisations states they have "grave ­concerns" that clause 152 of the bill would grant unprecedented powers to access people's confidential medical records. "The bill, as ...

As you recall, the current occupant of the White House decided that those knuckle draggers stupid enough to serve their country in our military and get wounded ought to kick in for his socialist realism by paying for their own medical treatment through their own private insurance, instead of the VA providing it free of charge. The VA met with the Prevaricator in Chief and were basically told tough...

From Old Holborn: Our membership allows us to live, work and travel across Europe and to receive free medical care if we fall sick on holiday... How cool is that? I'm only paying our masters £678 per year medical insurance to travel to Greece. Where I never travel .( I usually get my travel insurance for £38 a year from Flexicover.net, but what do I know?)

I missed this last week, it must have been excitment over the robbery. However those pointy headed boffins over at the Medical Research Council have excelled themselves again. Envy and pleasure do go together No.. Tell me it ain't true doc. The Schadenfreude study was led by Dr Hidehiko Takahashi of Tokoyo Medical and Dental University in Japan. Dr Dean Mobbs of the Medical Research Council C...