22 h. ago Mum who lost 4st on weight loss drug Mounjaro says side effects 'ruined her life'

A woman says she was left with severe side effects after taking weight-loss drug Mounjaro to shift four stone and claims the medication has "ruined" her life after numerous hospital visits.

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27 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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57 h. ago Brit tourist crippled by stomach bug claims 3 'racist' hospitals turned her away

Kay, a 'military wife' who shares her travels online, shared the 'scariest experience of her life' when she fell ill on holiday and claimed three hospitals turned her away because she was English

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61 h. ago Haunting final moments of girl, 14, who was left with hospital worker with fake ID

WARNING MENTIONS SUICIDE: Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, took her life after she was left unsupervised by a hospital worker with a fake ID - CCTV shows the teenager's final moments at Huntercombe Hospital

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4 d. ago Shocking moment rickshaw crashes headfirst into bus in crash that put three in hospital with one fighting for life

The bright pink pedicab ploughed straight into the driver's side of a new Routemaster at 1am on Bank Holiday Monday in the heart of the West End.

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5 d. ago Detectives appeal for information following the death of man in Kirkmuirhill

A 35-year-old man was also taken to University Hospital Wishaw for treatment. His condition is described as not life threatening.

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5 d. ago Brit gran stuck in Turkey hospital told 'the best you'll get is total paralysis'

The nan is stuck in Turkey after being rushed to a hospital where no one speaks English, and needs to find £50,000 for a medevac to fly her to the UK for surgery

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5 d. ago Bruce Willis’ wife fights back tears as she shares update on husband’s dementia

Bruce Willis’ wife fought back tears as she discussed how her husband’s “brain is failing him” following his dementia diagnosis.

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5 d. ago Welsh rock legend's wife gives update as he fights for life in hospital

Dave Edmunds spent a month in hospital after suffering a serious cardiac arrest at his home in Monmouthshire

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8 d. ago Two arrested including boy, 15, over ‘arson attack’ on London restaurant

Five people were hospitalised and two remain in a life-threatening condition

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9 d. ago I had electric shock treatment in the 1960s. Now I want to know why | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

You’re courageous to be facing up to this trauma. It’s time to empower yourself and explore your life storyI am 83, and my life seems to have been mostly happy. But after a year at art college, I sort of disintegrated and was sent to a mental hospital after I had tried to kill myself several times. My best explanation is that life was too difficult and painful. But why?In the hospital I had 15 electric shock treatments. After the first one I didn’t recognise my mum. I had a blinding headache, and the fear of never waking up was strong. I was given antipsychotic drugs and sedatives. I caused a lot of worry to my parents, but I couldn’t “pull myself together”. Looking back, I see myself as a caring person who helped the confused and unhappy ladies who were locked away in that massive old mental hospital, where, in a way, I felt at home. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Woman, 44, in coma in Majorca hospital after family find her hotel room covered in blood

A family on holiday in Majorca have launched a desperate appeal after staff told them Michaela Hadley, 44, had been taken to hospital

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1 week ago Man fighting for life in hospital after being struck by train

Emergency services were called to reports of a casualty on the tracks on Thursday (August 21)

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2 w. ago Men due in court following 'disturbance' at Hamilton property

They were taken to hospital for treatment to "non-life-threatening" injuries.

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2 w. ago Woman, 32, rushed to hospital after popping pimple on her 'triangle of death'

Alisha Monaco, 32, was left in "excruciating" pain after popping a pimple in the 'triangle of death' on her face, which left her with one of 'the worst' pimples she'd ever had

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2 w. ago Parents of girl who died in hospital say she had a ‘life of joy ahead of her’

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire when she was left unsupervised.

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2 w. ago Life support for man in vegetative state must continue due to his spiritual beliefs in healing, judge rules

A judge heard evidence about contact with the man through a medium and the impact of Reiki healing

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2 w. ago Horse racing legend fighting for life in hospital after horror accident

The 78-year-old suffered a 'very, very serious' fracture to his skull in the accident

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2 w. ago Racing trainer Bill Turner fighting for his life in hospital after fall from horse

Bill Turner was seriously injured in the accident at his stable on the Dorset and Somerset border on Monday. He remains in hospital at this time

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3 w. ago Boy, 17, fighting for life in hospital after stabbing in south east London

Boy, 17, fighting for life in hospital after stabbing in south east London  News Shopper

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