5 d. ago Death In Paradise's Selwyn Patterson leaves Saint Marie after sad admission in shock exit

Commissioner Selwyn Patterson has decided to leave the island of Saint Marie as Death In Paradise actor Don Warrington's final scenes aired

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5 d. ago So long, Scorsese! Is The Studio the TV show that will finally kill off Hollywood?

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new satire of Tinseltown is astonishingly starry, wildly intelligent and – just possibly – the perfect encapsulation of the film industry’s death croakIt’s never exactly a done deal when Hollywood decides to take itself on. The film industry is such a roiling combination of wealth, jealousy, fear and obliviousness that, when the right person decides to send it up, the results can be spectacular. Look at Sunset Boulevard, Barton Fink – or even Bowfinger – and you’ll see work that knows when to go for the jugular to inflict maximum damage.On the other hand, Hollywood satires can all too readily fall into the cliches they’re deliberately trying to send up. They’re romanticised. There are too many chummy cameos. They lose their nerve. Look at Charlie Day’s film Fool’s Paradise, or 1997’s An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (a movie about the name used when a film is so bad the director wants to remove his name from the credits, which was in turn so b...

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2 w. ago Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review – our bodies in an eye

A surgeon (and TV host) encourages us to take a fresh look at our organs in a smart and forceful studyIn the first week of medical school, my cohort was divided into small groups, given big sheets of white paper and assigned the task of drawing organs on a human outline, as our lecturer shouted “liver!”, “ovary other ovary!”, “appendix!”, “spleen!” It was startling to confront our ignorance and the exercise was formative for me in retaining humility when talking with patients and being curious about what I call their “imaginary anatomy”: how we think our bodies look inside. Despite the smooth, slim, cross-sections we see on the walls of GP surgeries, each of us has this imaginary space that is of interest not only in its deviation from textbook “truth”, but because the idea of our innards affects how we feel about ourselves and what we think our bodies can do for us. This might explain why I chose to become a psychiatrist rather than a surgeon.As Gabriel Weston writes in Alive, surg...

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2 w. ago Alive: an alternative anatomy by Gabriel Weston: Being in the room where life and death are decided

Dr Gabriel Weston takes the reader on a tour of the human body in this all too revealing book of anatomy

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3 w. ago 'Carefree' Cardiff teacher dies suddenly at 24 after boyfriend's harrowing discovery

Emily Rose Browning, 24, had just secured her first permanent job and was looking forward to settling into her new life with her boyfriend Jack Weston - who said the pair were planning to get engaged

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3 w. ago Alive by Gabriel Weston review – a revelatory study of the body

A doctor draws on science, history, art and her own experiences to help us see human anatomy anewUntil the early 17th century, scientists believed that the heart operated a bit like a lamp, warming blood that had been produced by the liver. In 1616, when the English physician William Harvey corrected this misconception and explained how the heart works, the audience at the Royal College of Physicians booed him. Why did it take so long for scientists to understand the heart’s real function? One possibility is that until the invention of mechanical pumps in the late 16th century, doctors lacked the metaphorical language to describe what the heart does.“The truth of the body is as much about storytelling as it is about anatomy,” the writer and surgeon Gabriel Weston argues in Alive, an unusual and gripping book that she describes as an “ecumenical exploration” of her subject. An English graduate, in her early 20s Weston enrolled in a pioneering medical degree programme designed to enco...

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