This page contains articles published before the reboot of the newspaper. We hope you take the time to read through some of these as well; there’s some great stuff here from those who came before us.
Matt Whitehouse
Heroes Never Die, Right?
As lockdown restrictions begin to ease, attention will soon turn to examine and reflect on thecountry’s handling of the global pandemic. The language of war has been used to describe the COVID-19 pandemic in both the UK and global media. An article in the New Stateman by Lawrence Freedman highlights this. A risk with this language is…
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Rosie Solomon
COVID-19: A Medical Student Off the Front Line
Walking through the doors of the general practice surgery triggers emotions that I would not expect when on medical student placement: fear, nervousness and excitement! Today marks the fifth week that I have been on my GP rotation. Over the course of these weeks the Coronavirus pandemic has evolved. The nationwide attitude is reflected by…
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Florence Kinder
Student Wellbeing
A Medical Ethics workshop for Sixth Form students thinking about applying to medicine, one student lingered at the end. Expecting the usual questions about directions to the station or finding good work experience, I was a little taken aback when the student came straight out with, ‘Does doctors’ mental health not matter?’ ‘Of course, it does!’ I…
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Florence Kinder
COVID-19 and Homelessness
Vulnerable people should self-isolate for the foreseeable future, stay indoors, limit contact etc. etc. but what if you don’t have a safe place to do that, what if you’re one of Britain’s thousands of homeless? Approximately 10,000 people sleep rough in the UK, with a further 320,000 described as ‘hidden homeless’, sofa-surfing or living in…
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Natasha Ratti
Something I Never Thought I’d Say
Please listen to Boris A polite and kind plea from a medical student to everyone – please take the government advice seriously How do I feel? I feel a bit sad. An apology in advance about the content of this article (what on Earth did we talk about before this?) but you guessed it, I’m referring to Covid. While the virus itself is no doubt sad and…
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Kit Stanford
Social Constraints on IVF Access
Right or Wrong? On a recent placement I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon in a fertility clinic. Whilst there the consultant asked me whether I knew the conditions required for a patient to gain access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs), the group of treatments that IVF belongs to. I managed to remember something…
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Amaal Maqsood-Shah
Making the Most of Your Clinical Placements
Look After Yourself The most important element to ensuring that you make the most out of your placement is looking after yourself. As a medical student it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the various emotional challenges that are commonplace during clinical placements, such as confronting patients’ illness and death, attempting challenging new skills and developing professionally. It is helpful to allocate time within the week to relax and…
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Kit Stanford
Personal Responsibility and Access to Healthcare
The available budget for the NHS seems to be a fairly constant topic of conversation within healthcare. Indeed, it formed a large part of the discussion surrounding the recent general election. Given we live in a world of limited resources for healthcare, there are various arguments surrounding how best to use the available budget. One…
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Alexander Thornton
To Be or Not To Be (a Doctor)
What else can be done with a medical degree? In the first few weeks of term at Leeds, many of us were told about the ‘end goal’ and our eventual progression into the NHS as fully qualified junior doctors. I imagined myself fresh out of medical school performing emergency heart surgery and confident that university had taught me all I needed to know despite having no independent surgical…
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Sara Zonzer
How to Master the Art of Anatomy
10 Tips for a Successful Anatomy Exam From all of the modules and topics that we study in the first two years of medical school, anatomy is one of the most difficult and challenging. The enormous workload and the limited time frame to learn the content in are two of the main challenges that medical students face. Are you worried about the upcoming anatomy…
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Ashleigh Blood
Plague Doctors
Scary or smart? Plague doctors are, by anyone’s standard, terrifying. Armed with a nightmarish uniform and little to no medical training, they are the last thing you would want to see on your deathbed. But have they been treated unfairly? In our minds, they seem like terrifying individuals who would end up not only killing, but also…
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Niralini Thayaparan
My Experience with Healthcare in Sri Lanka
Hi. I’m Niri, a buzzing second year medic. I’m excited to take you through a snapshot of my medic trip to Sri Lanka exactly two months after the Easter bombings. I know what you are all thinking, why did you go? Why Sri Lanka? This was a trip I had been wanting to do for…
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Alexander Thornton
Narrative Medicine – A Better Path to Understanding a Doctor-Patient Relationship
Modern medicine often portrays the discourse between physician and patient as a one-sided transaction – the doctor holds an egocentrist position within the relationship, working through the taught models of assessment and prognosis to try and identify the root cause of the patient’s condition. But what would happen if we disregarded all of the acronyms, guidance and consultation frameworks, asking, ‘What do you think I should know about your situation?’ – a simple question proposed by Rita Charon, a Professor…
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Halima Naeem
Ways of Dealing with the Stress of University
There are so many factors which contribute to stress in University; whether it be meeting a deadline or not being able to find the right outfit for a night out. The key to managing stress is to firstly identify what is causing it and then to practice a form of relief to help resolve the problem. It is definitely easier said than done;…
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Kit Stanford
Is the World Getting Better?
As winter days draw in, and it becomes darker by just a little each night, it seems natural to reach for something positive. Sadly, even a glance at the BBC news app on your phone or a minutes viewing of the 10 o’clock news fails to provide the comfort and hope we are looking for.…
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Bako Nour
Advice for Freshers
If you’re currently a first year medic, your life has probably changed significantly in the past few months. You’re no longer taught by teachers in classrooms, there isn’t as much guidance as you had in sixth form, and, for most of you, you’re hundreds of miles away from your family at home. There’s also that thing… IMS.…
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Emma Reeves
Drugs and Life
Attending party-based events during your time at university inevitably means some sort of contact with the drug culture that pervades much of extra-curricular life. The University of Leeds places consistently high in drug usage rankings, with 82% of 8000 students surveyed admitting to illegal drug use. Leeds with its multitude of students and universities has…
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