30 h. ago ‘You’re the only port of call for 400 hospital patients, which is absurd’: Matthew Hutchinson on the perils of life as an NHS doctor

He’s a rheumatologist, a standup comedian – and now the author of a memoir. He talks about racism in healthcare, why Covid was the only time urgent care was properly staffed – and his beef with cardiologistsAre You Really the Doctor?, Matthew Hutchinson’s memoir of being a black doctor in the NHS, opens in A&E with a patient suffering from a thunderclap headache and taking time out from his excruciating pain to complain that Hutchinson is “very scruffy”. “I’m wearing scrubs, the pyjama-like, hospital-issue uniform – something pretty difficult to put your own personal flair on,” Hutchinson writes, concluding wearily that the guy must have been reacting to something else: “Skin, hair, or general vibe.” You couldn’t call it a microaggression, the patient’s assumption that, being black, Hutchinson was unlikely to be an expert. But this anecdote barely registers on the Geiger counter of bigotry in healthcare that Hutchinson writes about trenchantly and acerbically, from the prejudice...

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4 d. ago Police launch desperate search for missing girl, 14, last seen wearing pyjamas

The missing teenager was last seen wearing a set of beige pyjamas in the early hours of the morning - police are now urging anyone who thinks they have seen her to ‘call 999’

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1 week ago Missing Scots teen vanishes wearing pyjamas and slippers as appeal launched

Mia Nugent, 14, was last seen in Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, at around 10.15pm on Monday, August 18.

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2 w. ago Police launch desperate manhunt for suspect mistakenly released from jail ahead of his prison sentence

Troy Dugas, 36, was released over the weekend because of an error by jail staff, according to police

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2 w. ago Little girl in swimsuit missing off Bournemouth pier found safe after major search

Salimatou, nine, was last seen in the area of Bournemouth Pier at around 12.30pm today before she was found safe and well at around 4.30pm as the police search was called off

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3 w. ago London Kerr search: Court docs reveal abuse allegations against missing girl's caregivers

London Kerr search: Court docs reveal abuse allegations against missing girl's caregivers  News 9

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3 w. ago More abuse claims revealed as Oklahoma City police search for girl missing for years

More abuse claims revealed as Oklahoma City police search for girl missing for years  KOCO

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4 w. ago The best way to age? Forget the longevity bros – and be more Mariah Carey

The singer has a reputation for cancelling anything she takes against, from stairs to overhead lighting. When it comes to our increasingly toxic obsession with wellness, she’s absolutely rightBig news, everyone: time is cancelled. Mariah Carey says so. “I don’t allow it – it just doesn’t happen,” the diva delle dive told Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t know time. I don’t know numbers. I do not acknowledge time.” Carey made this proclamation in response to a question about how she deals with ageing while wearing “white Fendi pyjamas over a plunging black bra, with six-inch Gianvito Rossi heels”, which is exactly how I want my supreme planetary dictator to dress.Carey is famous for cancelling stuff – stairs (won’t do them), J-Lo (doesn’t know her), James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke (refused to sing) and overhead lighting (no) – but this might be her finest work yet. She has had time in her sights for a while, telling Out magazine: “I don’t count years, but I definitely rebuke them,” in 2014 an...

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