National magazines

Over the past decade I've written for many national magazines, including The Times magazine, and Prospect magazine. These pieces are usually a bit more personal and thoughtful than many of my more investigative newspaper pieces. Here are a couple of my more recent efforts. 

No body is perfect

Prospect, 26 April 2010
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Whining parents

Prospect, 27 August 2010
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No body is perfect

My sister phones me after her latest breast cancer consultation. In four months she has had three lumpectomies on one breast, and more tissue removed from both in a reduction procedure. This time, surely, the lab analysis will show whether she is clear of the disease or will need a mastectomy. “Well,” she sighs, “It’s still not that simple.”

Her experience brought home to me an increasingly troubling aspect of western medicine: that our ability to diagnose diseases at earlier stages can outstrip our knowledge of what best to do about them.

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