Healthcare System & Workers

Years after research contradicts common practices, patients continue to demand them and doctors continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatment.

In caring for and bearing with human suffering, hospital staff perform extreme emotional labour. Is there a better way?

Two-year-old Zion Gastelum died just days after dentists performed root canals and put crowns on six baby teeth at a clinic affiliated with a private

As well as fighting to keep Covid patients alive, NHS staff are now battling a surge in abuse and denial in the second wave. Dr Rachel Clarke on how she is coping – and what gives her hope

"I completely understand how exhausted everyone can be. But I think you have to remember the sacrifices we make aren't for nothing."

COVID-19 has forever changed the way we see doctors and care for ourselves — and that’s not a bad thing.

Many health care workers are barely keeping it together in the Covid-19 fight. They are anxious and afraid. We need to protect their mental health.