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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Stephen Reicher |Rafael Behr |Frances Ryan |Rachel Clarke |Sophie Mackintosh |Laleh Khalili | +5 more
The cost of pessimistic individualism was measured in tens of thousands of livesStephen ReicherProfessor of psychology at the University of St Andrews and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British AcademyGreat calamities often provoke reflections about the human condition. The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 led people to reconsider their relationship with God, and compelled Voltaire to viciously lampoon Leibniz’s notion that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rachel Clarke
Seriously, Wes Streeting? After 14 wretched years of Tory austerity, stealth privatisation, draconian outsourcing, the Brexit staff drain and the horror and trauma of Covid from which – as you know – staff haven’t remotely recovered, the big NHS plan is to be … naming and shaming? Complete with inflammatory language that’s designed to scapegoat staff, such as the bad managers you’ve branded the NHS’s “”? Do you genuinely think this is constructive?
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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.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rachel Clarke
Good old anonymous senior sources in the NHS. You can always rely on them to tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, can’t you? In their latest act of radical candour on behalf of patients and frontline staff, these cloak-and-dagger freelancers briefed the BBC about their growing unease at Wes Streeting’s insistence that the NHS is broken.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Rachel Clarke |Shimon Prokupecz
By Rachel Clarke and Shimon Prokupecz, CNNFontana, California (CNN) - The length and bushiness of a police officer's beard has become a key issue in a legal fight in California. The city of Fontana is calling for attorney Jerry Steering to be held in contempt months after Steering publicized a nearly $900,000 settlement.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
ktvz.com | Rachel Clarke |Shimon Prokupecz
By Rachel Clarke and Shimon Prokupecz, CNNFontana, California (CNN) — Tom Perez called the local police non-emergency line to report his elderly father missing. Thirty-six hours later, Perez was on a psychiatric hold in a hospital, having been pressured into confessing he killed his dad and trying to take his own life. His father was alive and there had been no murder. No one told Perez. Instead, police continued investigating him, looking for a victim who did not exist.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rachel Clarke
This is the tale of a boy, a girl, and the heart they share: Max and Keira. Max had been a footballing, tree-climbing, play-fighting force of nature until a mysterious illness caused his heart to fail, leaving it so dangerously weak and unstable he was forced to spend nine months confined to a hospital bed. Max’s heart muscle had been fatally harmed, probably by a mild viral infection he had scarcely noticed.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Rachel Clarke |Eric Levenson
By Rachel Clarke and Eric Levenson, CNN(CNN) - Security errors, lapses and missed opportunities to stop a gunman led to the first shooting of a US president or former president in more than a generation. Here are several issues and problems identified by CNN that could or should have been addressed before the attack on former President Donald Trump. In addition, CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller provided his analysis of some of the issues and their importance.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Rachel Clarke
‘It’s not as a doctor that I’m frightened of this project, but as a patient.’ Photograph: OJO Images Ltd/Alamy Something radical, precipitous and sweeping is under way in the NHS. It’s untried, untested and sorely lacking in evidence, with the potential to cause significant patient harm. I’m talking about the Department of Health and Social Care’s project to rapidly expand so-called medical associate professions (MAPs), the largest group of which are termed physician associates (PAs).
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May 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rachel Clarke
On his first day as a trainee psychiatrist, Dr Benji Waterhouse –conflict averse, bookish, balding – receives a crash course in martial arts. A brawny ex-policeman with tumescent biceps exhorts the gaggle of junior doctors never to wear a tie unless they want to getthrottled, never to make a patient a cup of hot tea unless they want to get scalded, and to always sit in the chair closest to the door in case their life depends on making a quick getaway.
