Finding the chase and cutting to it

 Many of our earliest written records focused on economic transactions and approved histories. Personal records didn’t begin to be treasured until paper and school made such enterprises easy, perhaps the best known diary and letters were kept by Samuel Pepys in 17th century London. Letters were being sent between individuals during these times: often to […]

I woke up on Wednesday morning and groaned at the latest “diabetes” story on the radio 4: Diabetes amputation rates show huge regional variation. Rather than teach the newly diagnosed that actually, checking your feet regularly (and if you have a diagnosis of neuropathy, daily) is an effective way  of picking up infections that may lead […]