Jay Gee, now aged 46 years, had known something was wrong for decades. Since they
were a teenager, Gee was mostly bedbound with fatigue, nausea, incontinence, numbness …

The news article on medical gaslighting raises the important point that doctors should
always accept patient concerns about symptoms and never dismiss them as imaginary. 1 …

When the taxi driver said,“This is Millionaires' Row, love,” as he dropped me outside
Stephen Hempling's home in Hove, East Sussex, my first uncharitable thought was that, as a …

Mental illness leaves patients at risk for harming or killing themselves, none more so than
major depression, with which a 15% lifetime prevalence of suicide has been consistently …

There was also no evidence for the effectiveness of so-called" aqua tilis" treatment-carried
out in a steam room with a" therapeutic" magnetic resonance imaging machine-which was …

The President of the United States has multiple sclerosis (MS). For 18 months, Josiah
Bartlett struggled with the decision of whether to disclose his condition to the public. Then, in …

On Monday 9 January Theresa May used her first speech of 2017 and her first on health
since she became prime minister last July to pledge action across government to improve …

For more than 2000 years in the West, neurology and psychiatry were thought to be part of a
single, unified branch of medicine, which was often designated neuropsychiatry. Charcot …

In the early part my medical career I was full of the enthusiasm and overwhelming
confidence about my clinical skill that one generally finds in a novice. A 19 year old college …

EDITOR–Copying letters to patients is more exciting and more challenging than Essex
allows in his perspective. 1 How sad that he chooses to single out groups that he thinks …