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Health workers: If exposed in a pandemic, are you going to skulk or show ‘spunk’?

11 March 2020

Lucy O'Hagan

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 05:30 AM

Health professionals taking part in Exercise Cruikshank, a pandemic preparedness exercise, back in 2007. No hiding behind the hedge

JUST WONDERING

Doctors are not obliged to treat a high-risk patient if they can’t protect themselves, but should they risk it anyway? Lucy O’Hagan ponders her youthful sense of doctor as hero – and crosses her fingers

When I was a young GP, I read the autobiography of Doris Gordon, who was a GP in Stratford during the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic. Dr Gordo

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Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and options for personalised care, appropriate investigation and treatment

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