“The best version of you”; “The confidence you deserve”; “Age refined”; “Fight the signs of ageing” I challenge you to go on social media or open a glossy magazine and avoid similar exhortations, which are usually selling something.
This isn’t about clothes, haircuts, or nail varnish but about cosmetic medicine. It used to be a medical fringe activity, the stuff of rent-by-the-hour clinics in Harley Street. Now these messages are mainstream, coming from GPs and dentists who do some NHS clinics mixed with some private aesthetics. The result is numerous private clinics, operated by healthcare professionals. The outcome: wouldn’t a bit of filler, botox, or non-surgical enhancement, with some pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo-ology, suit nicely?
I despair for the generation to whom this …
Northwest Cancer Research, a cancer charity in the northwest of England and north Wales, has set up an eye catching installation at Manchester Piccadilly station.1 “Don’t keep ’em crossed” they say, “Get screened instead.” Suspended from pillars are three pairs of slim plastic legs, all crossed, stuck on a pillar, disembodied, like parts of a Barbie doll. The woman is being instructed not to rely on luck to avoid cervical cancer but instead silly girl to organise herself to attend screening. I find this sexualised and patronising women’s bodies made for public display, with a mixture of shock value and shame.
Why is there such difficulty in treating women like adults? A few years ago the Scottish government used a video, featuring …
UK doctors have nothing to fear from the introduction of a central register listing money or benefits they receive in addition to their NHS salary, say experts today ahead of a public meeting on the issue hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for First Do No Harm and The BMJ.
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