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I'm a GP - and these are the reasons why I sign a hundred people off work a month without even speaking to most of them

The truth is, in my own experience and from speaking to colleagues, waving through requests for 'fit notes' - or sick notes - for patients we have not seen has been routine practice for years.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13344567/im-GP-Britains-sick-note-epidemic-sign-100-people-work-without-speaking.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

​I felt l had to sign sick notes even if patients could e...e interested in keeping their benefits, writes DR MARTIN SCURR

When I first started as a GP, one of the most difficult daily tasks was signing sick notes. I had no training for it, and the difficulty was if the patient wasn't desperate to get back to work.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13339875/dreaded-signing-sick-notes-DR-MARTIN-SCURR-patients-interested-keeping-benefits.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Should you let your baby 'cry it out'? A generation of pare...Ford's strict regime. Four of them tell their survival stories

Gina Ford's bestselling book sold over a million copies and for at least a decade she was the baby sleep guru, famous for the strictness of her feeding regime and popularity among working mothers...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13337631/parenting-guru-Gina-Ford-interview-17-years-mums-power-divide.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

I was sectioned after being given a tranquiliser for anxiet...t the worst part of my ordeal was how doctors tried to cure me

Emma Saunders, an actress and photographer, went to her father's private GP in Chelsea with tinnitus in November 2020. The GP prescribed a tranquilliser, telling Emma it would help her sleep.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13336857/sectioned-tranquiliser-anxiety-triggered-frightening-psychosis-worst-ordeal-doctors.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Brazil, Argentina and Turkey now more popular and affordable for gender reassignment surgery than places like Thailand

The research by medical site Healthnews contrasts the popular belief that Thailand is the top country for transgender surgeries, where for years American and Western tourists have traveled for op...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13336559/brazil-argentina-turkey-gender-reassignment-surgery-affordable-popular.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

I'm a healthy woman but I sweat so heavily after a workout, I'm dripping wet. DR MARTIN SCURR replies

I am a recently retired, healthy woman who rarely gets ill. However, I was slightly overweight and I now train about four times a week, but while the extra weight has gone, I sweat really heavily...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13335839/Im-healthy-woman-sweat-heavily-workout-Im-dripping-wet-DR-MARTIN-SCURR-replies.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Deja flu? Alert over spread of mystery pneumonia 'that has sickened dozens of healthy people in Argentina'

Sixty patients have been sickened with 'severe atypical pneumonia' in Buenos Aires. An alert about the cluster of cases was last night circulated via an international public health reporting sys...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13322629/Deja-flu-Alert-spread-mystery-pneumonia-sickened-dozens-healthy-people-Argentina.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Thousands of everyday snacks that face being BANNED in mult...cer - including Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Lucky Charms and Gatorade

The acts are being advanced in Democrat-led states like New York and Pennsylvania and come off the back of mounting concerns that additives in food could be causing cancer , fertility problems an...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13314919/flamin-hot-cheetos-lucky-charms-gatorade-food-ban-cancer-link.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490