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Comment on the junior doctors' strike
Daily Express (13 April 2023)
Daily Express Daniel Sokol 12 April 2023ViewBook Review: Tough Choices
Journal of Perioperative Practice 2021, 31(3):58-59
Read the book review here Tough Choices March 2021 Book Review.View
The university justice system is in disarray (with Joshua Ellis)
The Times (21 Jan 2021)
The university justice system is in disarrayViewView
ICU Triage Protocol: decision making for intensive care triage in COVID-19 emergency
(6 April 2020)
This document is available in Spanish and French (click on the titles below).
Toma de decisiones en materia de triage en Cuidados Intensivos en la emergencia del COVID-19
With thanks to the many doctors, lawyers and ethicists who have given their valuable feedback on the document.
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How I got into - and out of - academia
Times Higher Education (9 November 2018)
Why I left academia PDFViewEthics in practice: a family’s request for deception (letter to the editor)
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, volume 88, issue 8, August 2006
A case of dubious consent
Junior Dr issue 2 (May 2006)
What is false hope?
Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2006, volume 17, issue 4, 367-368
Protecting confidentiality in telephone consultations in General Practice
(with Dr Josip Car) British Journal of General Practice (May 2006)
The double-edged sword of trust in medicine
Contributing editorial International Herald Tribune, 13th September 2004
The use of ethics in the EFL classroom
English Teaching Forum (October 2004)
Danger: white coats
The Independent, 2nd August 2004
Some ethical issues to think about Rapid Response to paper on SARS
British Medical Journal, 9th July 2004
Medical Ethics: Truth is not always the best medicine
International Herald Tribune, 29th June 2004
The ethics of face transplants
International Herald Tribune, 16th June 2004
The silence of the healers at Abu Ghraib
Contributing Editorial (with Ronald P. Sokol) International Herald Tribune 29/05/2004
Reflecting on our ‘yuk’
Think (Issue 9 Spring 2005)
In medicine, ’yuk’ is not a useful guide
International Herald Tribune, 18th May 2004
Take one Tolstoy with each meal
The Times, 14th March 2004
Can lies be good medicine?
The Globe and Mail (Canada), 7th February 2004
Trust me I’m a doctor
The Independent, 5th January 2004
The proliferation of cheerfulness
(Winner of the 3rd Oxfordshire Science Writing Competition 1999) Oxford Times, 26th March 1999
The duty to care and severe infectious disease
MSc thesis Imperial College London.