by David Boyle | 9 June 2016 | Blog
“The thing is, I don’t believe this stuff about staff shortages.” This is the kind of thing that, unfortunately, those on the South Coast have not been saying nearly enough to their train operator Southern Railways. But that is what I said, and it doesn’t sound like a...
by David Boyle | 27 May 2016 | Blog
A decade or so ago, I was finishing my book about the relationship between Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci, and their race for America (you can buy it here as an ebook these days I’m glad to say). I became convinced that the real story there was the friendship between...
by David Boyle | 9 May 2016 | Blog
Fancy going to Accident and Emergency with conjunctivitis. I mean, what kind of feckless, ignorant type would do that? That was the sort of attitude I felt from the handful of medical staff I encountered there early on Saturday morning. It wasn’t even bad...
by David Boyle | 10 April 2016 | Blog
I am just back from Japan, where I concentrated on eating as much rice and sushi as I could. It was a fabulous trip and I learned a great deal, and perhaps the most important lesson I learned is about Japanese growth. Put simply, there isn’t any but it...
by David Boyle | 24 March 2016 | Blog
Trisha Greenhalgh and other health writers developed the idea of narrative-based medicine to explain the importance of what patients tell doctors that can’t, or doesn’t, tend to get included in data. In fact, the idea of stories as a policy-making tool has...
