Dr Dinah Parums
Dinah’s medical degrees and postgraduate specialty training were done in Cambridge and Oxford, and her Ph.D. is from the University of Cambridge. She obtained her MRCPath in 1991. In 1999, she was awarded the FRCPath and was elected to the Fellowship of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP). Dinah has worked as a Senior Lecturer and NHS Consultant where she has held clinical, teaching, research and managerial roles. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a Principal Pharmaceutical Physician and has worked with the BMJ as a Clinical Editor. Dinah has been publishing original peer-reviewed research for more than thirty years and reviews manuscripts for publication for several journals. She now works as a freelance medical and scientific writer, editor and consultant. Her LinkedIn profile and her online website contain details of her clinical and academic experience and publications.
Is There a Role for Humour in Medicine? If so, what is it?
For centuries, the medical profession and nursing profession have used humour as a way to communicate with patients, with each other, and as a...
Chronic Hepatitis C Infection
Liver disease is the fifth largest cause of mortality in England and Wales, after heart disease, cancer, stroke and respiratory disease. In the UK,...
The NHS Goes Back to the Future in 2015
On 23rd October 2014, NHS England published its Five Year Forward View, which began with the statement (1,2):
‘the NHS is at a crossroads and...
Social Prescribing
Social Prescribing: What is it?
‘Social prescribing,’ or ‘community referral,’ is a way of linking patients in primary care with sources of support within the...
Meningitis B Vaccine
On June 21st 2015, an announcement was made by the Department of Health and the UK Public Health Minister that the Meningococcal B (MenB)...
Personalised Microbial Health
In May 2015, a molecular microbiology study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1). This study showed that gut...
Treatment for Advanced Melanoma Using T-VEC
It is a truth, universally acknowledged by healthcare professionals, that an interesting and innovative medical research finding can become sensationalised with its ‘passage’ through...
Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE): an Update
The Gram-negative bacterial family of Enterobacteriaceae, includes the species Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Escherichia. These bacteria can cause opportunistic wound infections, gastroenteritis, pneumonia and septicaemia,...
The Carter Review. Procurement in the NHS
The NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world. In the UK, the public healthcare industry spends nearly £40 billion per year on commissioning its health services for local people. This year, the procurement of NHS goods and services have been reviewed and concerns have been raised.
RANDOM POSTS
Improving the eye care of prone patients with Covid-19
The emergence of Covid-19 has led to unprecedented levels of ICU occupancy and mechanical ventilator use in the UK and worldwide. With non-intensivists often...
