Dr John Dean DM FRCP

Consultant cardiologist

Western Morning News December 2018

Each successive generation introduces new words to their vocabulary, often making the language they speak impenetrable to their parents. So let’s begin with a vocabulary test to see how ‘woke’ you are. If you are ‘woke’, you will also almost certainly understand the meaning of the word ‘snowflake’. This term is used to describe oversensitive young adults who are ...

It’s a black alert, a humanitarian crisis, a major incident, exceptional measures are demanded. Where in the world could this be? Syria? Sudan? Or perhaps a terrorist attack in a major European city? No, it’s just a normal working day at your local hospital in January. No one, even those of us who have served the NHS for a long time (38 years for me) have witnessed anything quite like ...



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I am normally a good sleeper. But twice this year I have awoken from a peaceful slumber into a nightmare about clowns; it’s always clowns. In one of my nightmares I am a passenger on a plane where the pilot dies and a professional clown with a terrible comb-over and absolutely no experien...