By Connor Dibblin, 4th Year Medicine, King’s College London The global coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly caused massive disruption to everyone’s lives. Students around the world have had to adapt to a new normal of teaching over the last few months. Gone are the days of lectures and seminars, now replaced…

By Luke Ottewell, 4th Year Medicine, University of Bristol This morning I logged into my first virtual meeting since starting medical school. Zoom — this will serve as news to no-one — is quite simply an absolute game-changer. …

By The Mislabeled Specimen team The human body is as complicated as it is fascinating. Decades of training, experience, and resources can shape a medical provider’s diagnostic ability into a precise and effective tool that can prevent, limit, or even stop disease processes in their tracks. These diagnostic skills are…

By Alexandra Dinu, Year 12, Harrogate Ladies’ College Serious diseases that once killed thousands of people have almost been eliminated in many parts of the world thanks to the discovery of antibiotics and the widespread use of vaccinations. Nowadays, it is not tuberculosis that threatens human life, nor polio, syphilis…

By Maryam Fallah, Year 12, Southend High School for Girls In 5 years’ time, I wish to live in a society where the bystander effect is no longer the social norm during healthcare emergencies, and I believe that this can be achieved by widening access to first aid education. The…

By Jessica Gjeloshi, 4th Year Medicine, King’s College London COVID-19 has meant that, in an already highly digitalised world, there has been an even greater surge in demand for smart, reliable information technology (IT). Primary care (PC) has unsurprisingly become one of the IT sector’s biggest consumers, making the transition…

By Colette McKeown, Learning Disability Nursing, Qualified LD Nurse within the NHS 1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability. The need for LD nurses is huge as sadly in the UK there are still barriers to equal healthcare for people with learning disabilities. …

By Malebox When cases of COVID-19 supposedly started to decline over the summer in the UK, people began to question what the pandemic’s wider effects have been on the NHS. Certainly there has been a clear shift away from hubs such as schools, care homes and hospitals from early on…

By Emily Søderholm, 4th Year Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London In Østfold, Norway, it often takes less than an hour for a patient’s sample to arrive at the clinical laboratory, be analysed and the results returned to the GP. This short turn-around-time (TAT) would be impossible if not for the…