When I left Oxford for the urban heap of London, I found myself retracing the footsteps of Romantic poet and Guy’s medical alumnus John Keats. On Sunday 1 October 1815, Keats enrolled as student №189 at the Counting House of Guy’s Hospital. The next nine months at Guys would alter…

by Youssef El-Gingihy @ElGingihy The great German physician Rudolf Virchow once said that, “Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale”. …

by Youssef El-Gingihy @ElGingihy The great German physician Rudolf Virchow once said that, “Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale”. …

Friday 22nd November was the 56th anniversary of the JFK assassination falling on the exact same weekday. The case remains unsolved as the alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was dispatched before a trial could take place. The official version rests upon some astonishingly flimsy presumptions. Yet the mainstream continues to…

by Youssef El-Gingihy @ElGingihy On his State visit to the UK, President Trump has let the cat out of the bag by declaring that the NHS would be on the table as part of a post Brexit US/UK trade deal. These remarks have caused no small amount of dismay and…

Could The Miracle On Merseyside As Liverpool Defeat Barcelona 4–0 Presage Their First League Title In Nearly 30 Years? The morning after the night before. It feels as if the Liverpool-Barcelona fixture is somehow tonight as we touch down from rapturous, jubilant reveries; a too good to be true result…

The story of Julian Assange and Wikileaks has unfolded like a Hollywood thriller complete with classified secrets, surveillance, court cases and chases alongside a who’s who of presidents, contenders, provocateurs, controversialists and spies. The images of a bearded, bewildered Julian Assange, looking haunted as he was frogmarched out of the Ecuadorean embassy, have been beamed across the world. He was seemingly in poor health and looked every bit the political martyr persecuted by the ‘deep state’. On closer inspection, it turned out that…

“It is therefore worth considering aiming over a period to end the state provision of healthcare for the bulk of the population, so that medical facilities would be privately owned and run, and those seeking healthcare would be required to pay for it.” Central Policy Review Staff document, 1982 In…