Imagine you’re a patient with extreme pain and you therefore go to A&E (i.e. emergency room) in the hospital. Here you are sat down and not helped for hours. Or imagine you have had a very bad experience with a healthcare professional (doctor, nurse or whoever else in the hospital). What would you do?
Tag Archives: Medicine
#3 How to be a better patient – preventing colorectal cancer
In the western world roughly 1 in 20 people will be diagnosed with bowel cancer in their lifetime. Here’s what you could do to reduce your risk of getting this nasty disease.
#2 How to be a better patient – recognising alarm symptoms
There’s a large chance you, a friend or a family member will get bowel cancer, so it’s good to be aware of the main alarm symptoms for bowel cancer
#1 How to be a better patient – an intro
In this blog post series “How to be a better patient”, I’ll try to discuss the following things:
1. How to communicate more effectively with healthcare providers 2. Which medical alarm symptoms to be aware off 3. How to reduce your risk of disease 4. The pitfalls of modern medicine. And much more…
My first week as a medical student in the hospital
For the most us (including me), the problem isn’t that we don’t have enough, the problem is too often we don’t spend it well…
FAQs about cancer: What is it and why is it so hard to cure?
A short introduction to cancer.
