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Christian doctors unite worldwide to challenge WMA on conscience rights

September 14, 2018 Written by End of Life , Medical Practice , Start of Life

The International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) has called on the World Medical Association (WMA) to protect doctors’ conscience rights on abortion and euthanasia.   ICMDA, which unites national associations of doctors and dentists in over 80 countries, was responding to a move by […]

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Journey into darkness – Transplants, markets and trafficking

September 11, 2018 Written by Medical Practice

When in 2016, an editor from a leading academic publisher approached me about contributing a book chapter on the ethics of organ markets, I readily agreed thinking that this would entail little more than many other previous commissions. With most bioethical issues, the arguments pro […]

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Happy Birthday NHS: Let’s not let a national good become a national god

July 5, 2018 Written by Events , Medical Practice , Society

Today (5 July 2018) marks seventy years since the world’s first, free-at-the-point of delivery, universal access, national healthcare system was launched. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has become so much a part of the fabric of British life and culture in those seven decades that […]

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Stifling Dissent

May 23, 2018 Written by Medical Practice , Society , Start of Life

Behind the statue of George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, outside Broadcasting House in London, are inscribed the words from his preface to that book: ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ Stifling […]

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Alfie Evans has a progressive incurable illness but his parents should not be stopped from doing what they believe is best for him

April 27, 2018 Written by End of Life , Medical Practice , Start of Life

Hear my Premier Radio interview on this case here. Alfie Evans was admitted to Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool in December 2016 suffering from seizures. He was found to have a (still undiagnosed) progressive neurodegenerative disease and has now been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year. […]