1. Did you mean: diabetes type 2 hyper what are symptoms

2. Yesterday on the Covid - 19 front - line

   05/02/21

   people getting better. It’s difficult to predict which means staffing levels are difficult to manage. The ... consultants are not sure if we’ve reached the peak or not. We need to save beds, in case they’re needed. ... their drugs. Some are on intravenous drips. We help with washing, catheters, nasogastric tubes and so on. We do ... More

3. My experience is…

   28/10/20

   'Covid-19 has shown how much men's groups are needed' Key workers NURSE-  A nurse practitioner ... abuse frontline PROFESSOR OF DIVERSITY: 'Our world class equality tools are absent from our ... Covid-19 response' SAMARITANS: 'Talking can be life-saving' What about you? If you're ... More

4. Martin: I forgot the word 'ventilator'

   12/08/20

   having postponed the wedding this year, has made this video. Viewers beware: there are a lot of images of ... More

5. Paul: 'sometimes you need to be pushy'

   12/11/19

   the nurse kept asking me what she should check for. My impression was they’d never heard of the NHS ... diabetic. Both my father and my brother had diabetes and were injecting. Because the GP hadn’t filled me ... with confidence, I changed practice. I switched to a GP who was a specialist in diabetes. In fact I was ... More

6. Are you a sex or porn addict?

   23/01/23

   visiting sex workers, cruising and/or fetish behaviours. The type of behaviour is not what defines it as an ... suicide because their behaviour had got so out of control.  What causes sex addiction? Historically sex ... a supernormal stimuli and there are suggestions that compulsive use of the internet and pornography can change ... More

7. 'Jogging, writing - lockdown was an opportunity…'

   13/06/20

   assumed major importance. Tricky decisions about alternatives to purchase if what is really wanted isn’t ... There may be no transport infrastructure to speak of, but there are always narrow-boats to admire. With ... the devil threatens to withhold your chocolate biscuits. Guess what? I’m really enjoying it. My gin ... More

8. Golf Has Made My Life Better

   01/07/20

   stroke and heart disease are associated with a regular play on the golf course. Also, the repetitive need ... great is that? I am glad that my grandfather tried golf and at his age, it is not impossible. But what ... More

9. Ben: 'I was very hard - working. Probably too much.'

   26/07/18

   Ben is in his late 40s. He has type 1 diabetes with some type 2 characteristics. About four years ... having a lot of hypos at night. It turns out my diabetes is not 100% type 1. I still produce some of my ... on the board and I said ‘what board?’ It was very scary.  Looking back, had I left it any longer, my ... More

10. NHS Health Checks

    19/11/20

    heart attacks and strokes prevent 4,000 people from developing type 2 diabetes detect at least 20,000 ... cases of type 2 diabetes or kidney disease earlier One of the lives saved could be yours. Is it ... a hassle? Tell me exactly what all the tests are The questions are: your age, your ethnic group, whether you ... More

11. Men & Covid - 19: new lessons learned & the challenge of inequality

    22/06/20

    likely to die from COVID-19 than women. We now know that estimate was too low. What else have we learned? ... And what does this mean for men's health in the future? For Men's Health Week 2020, the ... More

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