Category: Blog

Have a read of my latest BMJ column here.

What are you going to do with your 1800 weeks of work? Thanks to Oliver Burkeman for his wonderful book and inspiration for this column. Read the […]

Here are some wonderful letters of thanks. I wrote a letter saying thank you to the anonymous people who have written to me in the pandemic. Read […]

Here is a letter to colleagues that read on Radio 4’s Today programs on 20th November 2021.

“Do you regularly sit on a bin? Eat lunch on your lap? Speak to patients in a stock room? Or find that a lack of medical cover […]

Recently, a very special member of our family died at the age of 97. I wanted to say something about her remarkable life during the funeral so […]

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Have a read about why I think hospital medicine is a bit like a computer game here.

“In the complexity of modern healthcare we need an entire village of people to care for us, not one sole trader”Is it time to change the name […]

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“I never expected to have a deeply emotional experience, with a tear in my eye, while sitting on a plastic chair in the middle of a basketball […]

I’d love you to listen to this fab new podcast where we talk about a lot from science to COVID to dealing with stress. Thanks for great […]

Thanks to Channel 4 for coving this important topic with the artist Nathan Wyburn. See the piece here.

One of the first hospital beds from 1874 . . . a lot has changed but a bed is still just a bed. Read why I think […]

Thanks to The Times for printing this interview that covers issues from caring for staff to dealing with online abuse. Read it here.

Here is a lighthearted look at our new normal of working from home . . . read it here.

Here are some articles and podcasts related to the vaccine roll out in Wales. Click the images for the full article.

Come behind the scene when I have my COVID vaccine, exactly 38 weeks after we care for the first ICU patient with COVID.

Have a read of the new BMJ column here.

Apart from the terrible freeze frame, here is a short video including a sneak preview into my second book, How Kissing a Frog Can Save Your Life.

I wanted to share this short talk that I was asked to do in the outdoor Between the Trees event this year. Let’s hope 2021 will bring […]

Writing the poem after his dad’s untimely death, Thomas was both right and wrong. As I turned 40, a surprise trip to a spa hotel sent me […]

Thanks to Uncancelled for publishing this piece.

I wish I didn’t need to write again, but the seas may be getting darker once more. Yet in their depths, there are glimmers of hope that break […]

Thanks to the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Association for asking me to speak about the experiences of COVID from ICU. Sadly, the disease touches those members they […]

A big thanks to Jack for asking me to chat with him on his show. Listen here.

It was so fantastic to be reunited with one of the sickest patients I’ve cared for. Seeing him be a dad and a husband was pretty special. […]

Here is my latest BMJ article broadly based on the amazing Song, “Days of Decision” by Phil Ochs, covered by the amazing Martyn Joseph.

Thanks to Lydia Wilson for asking me to speak on her great podcast. Have a listen here.

Here is a piece in Esquire magazine helping to support the Intensive Care Society’s wellbeing campaign.

Paperback book launch Explaining what intensive care can and cannot do is more important now than ever. So I’d love you to join me on Facebook for a live 20 […]

In a strange coincidence, my BMJ column this month is about the same topic that I’m trying to teach my daughter in home schooling . . . […]

Thanks to Dr Dean Burnett for asking me to talk on his new podcast. recorded before COVID19. Sorry about the ridiculous look on my face.

Thanks to CNN for interviewing me about my letter to President Trump. Listen to the interview here.

Here is a letter I have written to President Trump inspired by the writing of Nye Bevan and the song by Martin Joseph. If you enjoyed reading […]

Sorry this is behind a paywall but here is a free trial with The Telegraph. The most important bit for me is the last paragraph about Nye […]

A massive thanks to Ger Gilroy and Stuart Lancaster for inviting me onto Episode Three of the second season of Leader’s Questions.

Thanks to Miranda Levy for listening to me speak to her about my day. Read the full article here.

I read out the letter that I wrote to people in those vulnerable groups. I really wrote this thinking about close members of my own family who […]

The Channel 4 journalist Andy Davies visited us in Cardiff to see for himself the extraordinary efforts staff are going to. View the report here.

Thanks to Miranda Levy for listening to me speak to her about my day. Read the full article here.

Thanks to the BBC for carrying this, full story here.

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