Maureen Anderson

Oct 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Rachel Clarke |Lucy Webster |Maureen Anderson |Gaby Hinsliff |Charlie Corke |Nims Obunge

Rachel Clarke: If we truly cared about those dying, palliative care would be properly fundedChristiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant, vividly skewered the notion of patients “freely” choosing to have such dangerous, experimental surgery.

May 17, 2024 | counselling-directory.org.uk | Maureen Anderson

Bereavement Grief is a solitary journey that we must all do alone. It is truly the dark night of the soul. You may feel like you cannot focus or concentrate. You may feel hopeless at moments and filled with disbelief or rage at others. You may feel you do not have time for others you are normally in close relationship with and push them away. You might think that you are the only one in the deepest of despairs.

Apr 9, 2024 | wormsandgermsblog.com | Maureen Anderson

In case you need a break from all the discussion about H5N1 influenza and the multitude of species it now seems to be able to infect, there’s nothing like a good zoonotic parasite story to make your skin (or pants in this case) crawl. (I promise that this will be a normal-length blog post… ahem.)There was a recent research letter in Emerging Infectious Diseases (Hobbs et al. 2024) that caught my eye – particularly because it includes a picture/video which you should definitely check out.