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The BBC today featured a story about a tiger needing dental treatment. The heading said: “A Harley Street dental surgeon stared danger in the mouth when he operated on a…

I can see the sea from where I’m blogging, somewhere exotic and enjoying a chilled drink in the last of the afternoon sun. Well, actually it’s a hot chocolate in…

A long time ago, because I’m quite old, I remember getting an abscess on my arm after a minor cut. It was huge and painful, I couldn’t move my arm…

Understanding the narrative, or `life story`, of a patient is way more important than we tend to credit to. We blithely put headings in the notes such as `Social History`,…

Language, accent and local dialect, can be a challenge even within different areas of the UK. Areas as diverse as Yorkshire, Cornwall and Shetland jokingly publish their own phrase books…

About twenty years ago, I called the weekend duty GP because I was worried about our young son who had a sore throat and a temperature. The doctor turned up…

These are the words used by the British Dental Association (BDA) after the General Dental Council (GDC) considered the annual retention fee for dentists and decided to go ahead with…

Well done dentists! The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) latest report on services has good things to say about the practice in dentistry. In fact, the paragraphs on dentistry are headed:…