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In spite of all my careful planning I still had to rush up the road to the local wee hospital for the blood test.  Rushing, moving fater tha...

  Boris, with his promise of '48 new hospitals,' another of his 'open mouth and lie' statements, has led to the absurd situa...

The council planted Daffodils did their best to imitate Spring but all around dreichness remained. I was venturing out for the second tim...

I fell off the roof...

At night all was still.  Lights were dimmed, doors closed, outside sounds nullified, stillness, disturbed rarely by footsteps, a nurse h...

Rising just before six am I retrieved my aching hulk from the bundle of rags, filled the cavernous stomach with stale bread, checked ...

Some years ago I spent a few years working as a porter in a small hospital in the concrete jungle that is London . I was glad to get ...

Leith Hospital Lunchtime saw me wandering through the damp streets to t...

It's funny how some things stick in the mind. For instance I spent almost twenty years in the same hovel in London and many a time the b...

Celebrate! The National Health Service is sixty years old today. The much maligned service, without which thousands among us would be eith...

When I first started work on the trauma ward at the Infirmary I quickly got used to the many varieties of the human species. The doddery ol...

Once again we here a fuss about clean hospitals. Everybody shouts and complains demanding spotless hospitals. Now I agree but there are on...