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OK – but could do better

My latest report from the minefield of medical science and fitness regimes contains a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. Earlier this week I presented myself to the nurse at my GP surgery to undergo a ‘general health test’ – something that I was first offered a couple of years ago. As I [...]

January 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Holier than thou

My new fitness regime, hampered of course by my gammy hip, continues. They say man cannot live by bread alone and, since (on my new self-designed diet imposed since 1st January) bread and potatoes are banned, some of us cannot even live on that. Last night, for our evening meal, we had what I now [...]

January 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Doing what you can

Medical and fitness issues concern me today. It’s been about three months since my hospital consultant, having listened patiently to my long list of symptoms and ongoing discomforts in my arthritic hip, paused for a moment and cheerily responded “That’s fine then, I’ll sign [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby still has medical work to do

Last night I began watching the Gloucester versus Saracens Premiership rugby match being relayed live from Kingsholm by BT Sport. After a while, not fully engaged by its entertainment and having other domestic distractions I went to bed …and  thereby missed by a few minutes the sight of Ben [...]

January 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ready, Steady, Go!

For most of us, after the excesses of the festive period, the New Year brings attempts in various degrees of determination to ‘make that change’ (whatever it, or they, might be). I’m sure that many follow my own traditional routine of hatching my list of ‘improvement’ goals anywhere from [...]

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Too late for me, I fear!

Two potentially positive stories relating to dementia are circulating in the media this week. The first, based upon research conducted at the Rockefeller University in New York, is suggesting that Riluzole – a drug currently used to treat forms of motor neurone disease by preventing connections [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Accident in Glasgow: an explanation

Two years ago almost exactly to the day, I was staying in a hotel near Maidenhead with one of my favourite poppets. I was chatting from the bath when I began to cough and mid-sentence passed out. Had my friend been less astute I would not be writing this. Next thing I knew I had the rather [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

We’re all special cases now

According to a Radio Five Live contributor, the obesity epidemic in Britain already costs the NHS a staggering £5 billion per annum. This fact came winging into my brain in the wee hours this morning, just after I had spent yesterday reading reports of a new European Court of Justice ruling that [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

A good doctor

Yesterday I met with a private doctor locally I was recommended. I have a GP but on the two occasions I visited the surgery I had to wait over 45 minutes.. Recommendation is a powerful resource but in checking up on the doctor personally I was heartened that he studied and qualified at the [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Counting the cost

As everyone knows, the issues surrounding growing and/or being old are some of the most pressing for modern society – not least because of increasing human longevity and the attendant alleged under-shooting of actuarial projections as to how the potential costs to the taxpayer of [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

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