Articles by Wendy Lewis

About Wendy Lewis

A former GP in the Home Counties, Wendy’s busy life revolves around her husband, grandchildren and two Labrador dogs – though not necessarily in that order. More Posts

Carefully, like porcupines? Probably …

Spotted today on the website of The Independent is this article by Jonathan Owen on a new scientific survey into the best lovemaking position(s) for men with bad backs – see here – SPOONING MAY NOT BE BEST Clearly, any advice upon the best ‘medical’ positions in which to have sex is of [...]

September 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Somebody’s got to pay for it

Spotted today – a thought-provoking contribution to the debate over financing the NHS from Peter Wilby, on the website of THE [...]

April 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Will the last person to leave please switch the lights out

For anyone beyond the first flush of youth, I guess it’s a given that our thought turn occasionally to mortality, the concept that we aren’t going to be around forever and that – at some point in the future – life on Earth will go on without us. Maybe. Here’s a link [...]

March 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s all in the mind

A phenomenon of modern popular culture, and a media staple, are reports detailing the findings of cod-serious research projects that supposedly shed light upon developments in the way we see ourselves. There’s a classic example available today, featured on the website of the Daily Mail, courtesy [...]

February 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Deciding which side of the line you fall

I have written previously on the subject of the hypocrisy of obese people who continually complain about the discrimination and lack of respect they receive from non-fatties and yet simultaneously also claim that they are entirely happy about their weight. Today, on the website of the Daily [...]

January 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

And, with a touch of irony …

‘Shorely schome mishtake? …’ – as Sean Connery and/or Private Eye might possibly say. Media reports today – Friday 3rd January 2014 – detail the results of a survey by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) that suggest rates of obesity in developing [...]

January 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Warding off the onset of dementia

Media reports yesterday covered the results of a thirty-four year study of 2,345 men by Cardiff University’s School of Medicine, which appeared to demonstrate that taking up, or keeping to, five simple rules of living may help to resist the onset of dementia. These were: Taking regular exercise [...]

December 10, 2013 // 0 Comments

Technology marches on

The news earlier this week that engineers at Sony have been developing a male ‘Smart-Wig’ is most welcome. According to media reports this item, which is intended to combine the benefits of simultaneously giving the wearer both the appearance of having a full head of hair – albeit taken [...]

November 28, 2013 // 0 Comments

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