Popular Writing

The Jargon Buster’s Guide to Heart Disease, Metro Books, May 1996

The Plain English Guide to Heart Disease , Blake Publishing, Spring 2003

How to Cope Successfully with High Blood Pressure, Wellhouse Publishing, October 2003

Articles on Heart Disease for the Following:

Active Life

Men’s health

Yours

Woman’s Own

Regular contributions in the Daily Mail

National Press Newspaper Articles

‘Shoot to Kill’ The Guardian March 1994. Article on the use of Barts’ recently closed A and E department as a set for the ITV programme ‘The Bill’.

‘The Media are bad for your health’. Written for the Telegraph magazine but eventually not used for reasons of space (still topical).

‘Doctor’s Notes’. The Daily Mail. A column on matters medical, came out for three weeks in October and November 1997. Generated a big postbag, but not continued after a change in personnel!

Daily Mail ‘The truth about our slum NHS’ (December 30th 1998). Double page centre spread on the real reasons why patients wait on trolleys for hours.

The New Statesman. Invited article ‘ The BMA – clinically ineffective?’ October 1999

‘Kicking stress into touch’. Invited article for The Observer November 2003. Article about the possible role of stress in the heart problems of Tony Blair and Sir Alex Ferguson