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Well versed – what poetry can bring to medicine

Why would a doctor write poetry? Given how some use it – as a coping mechanism in war and abusive situations, to help them better relate to patients and to combat burnout – they might ask, how can a doctor manage without it? By Seren Boyd

Doctors' Wellbeing By Seren Boyd

Binning the beige buffet

Health service catering has tended to offer little in the way of either 'health' or 'service', but it's not all pie, chips and pop, as Ben Ireland discovered at a hospital determined to do better

Health & Society Doctors' Wellbeing By Ben Ireland

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BMA seeks deal with Government to tackle doctor unemployment as crisis looms

Fresh survey shows more than half of FY2 doctors have no job confirmed from next month

Pay & Contracts By Ben Ireland

Keeping up the fight

Ben Ireland joins resident doctors on a picket line in Birmingham as they take industrial action for the twelfth time in the pay restoration campaign, the first strike under a Labour government

Pay & Contracts Ben Ireland

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