Tag Archives: Nursing
The Liverpool Care Pathway: The Face of Death?
This week has been, to say the least, a difficult and painful week for many people. Two very important, objective reviews have come out which have scrutinised practice within Health Trusts across the country. Both made for very uncomfortable reading but I would like to concentrate on the first. This report was the result of […]
Life in an Uneaten State
There’s not a huge amount that qualifies me as an expert on death. I have never died for a start, and I will only ever do it once, same way that I will only ever be born once (and I don’t ever intend to repeat that again!). What I do have to give is a […]
The Bugs in Our System
One of the most important pieces of literature the 20th Century gave birth to is, arguably, Franz Kafkas’ metamorphosis. Now I am not a literary buff and neither do I read German; so I am unable to give you the classical reasons as to why this book is the work of art that the […]
The Wooden Duck 