Category: Covid

  • 12/01/2023
    Politics and medicine China’s Covid patients face medical debt crisis as insurers refuse coverage | Financial Times Echoing Rudolf Virchow,…
  • 08/02/2022
    Excess deaths England & Wales 2021 Paul Taylor LRB 2002
  • 08/12/2021
    Tennis rules John Lanchester · As the Lock Rattles · LRB 4 December 2021 The story of the UK is…
  • 16/06/2021
    The following is from Pulse, a magazine that is aimed at GPs. My point is not so much about the…
  • 12/08/2020
    On September 1, I’m scheduled to teach 170 students in a windowless room. After 12 sessions of 3 hours in…
  • 11/08/2020
    Someone in your family has fallen ill with a respiratory infection that has already killed large numbers. Your small house…
  • 17/07/2020
    Henry Miller died a few months before I started medical school in Newcastle in 1976. At the time of his…
  • 16/07/2020
    “I hope the lesson will really be that we can’t afford as a society to create the fire brigade once…
  • 01/07/2020
    Peter Piot in the Guardian As with HIV, “an epidemic reveals the fault lines in society. The big one this…
  • 19/05/2020
    Terrific post in the Monday Note from Jean-Louis Gassée. He writes: This week’s note was sparked by a conversation with…