Browsing: doctors

Patients see doctors in a white coat as professional and trustworthy but often mistake a female medic wearing one for a nurse or medical assistant, a…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Veterans hospitals are struggling…

I write in response to Prof David Cameron (Letters, 28 July). I also trained as a doctor during the 80s and early 90s and experienced the…

The doctors’ union has rejected NHS figures showing that less than a third of resident doctors joined strike action in England last week and 93% of…

From Jeremy Hunt and Alan Johnson to Andy Burnham and Ken Clarke, politics is littered with ambitious former health secretaries who did not make it into…

As five days of strike action by resident doctors come to an end, the BMA has written asking me to return to the negotiating table. I’ve…

The doctors union “will lose a war with this government”, Wes Streeting has said, adding that the NHS is ready to tough out a prolonged series…

NHS bosses and the British Medical Association are accusing each other of endangering patients during the ongoing resident doctors’ strike.Their war of words centres on “derogations”,…

Wes Streeting thought he had struck a deal with resident doctors to stop a five-day strike in England, only for the British Medical Association to then…

Thousands fewer resident doctors are thought to have joined picket lines on Friday during the first day of a five-day strike compared with last year’s mass…