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Choosing the right foods to manage healthy blood sugar levels

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Written by Eleanor Strang, Registered Nutritional Therapist CNHC mBANT and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline

Gross negligence manslaughter: can that be right?

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As an experienced hospital consultant working in a high pressure speciality (obstetrics) I feel I am entitled to have an opinion about the original prosecution of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba in 2015, and about the GMC’s actions through the High Court this week, successfully over-turning the Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal Service decision to have the doctor’s GMC […]

Merry Christmas from the Dr Morton’s team!

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Open every day of the year This Christmas, sign up for the peace of mind of having medical expertise at the end of the phone when you need it. PAYG or Subscription? We offer a Pay Monthly service for only £7.50 per month. And that includes unlimited calls to both GPs and Gynaecologists*. Alternatively, you […]

Dr Karen Morton comments on the news that women will soon be offered only 3 smear tests in a lifetime

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Dr Karen Morton comments on the news that women will soon be offered only 3 smear tests in a lifetime…. as long as they are all normal. From the moment that it became clear that HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) is […]

Women in the work place

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Equality in the work place starts at school, but thereafter depends on a proactive approach to women’s health. When I was at school, a brilliant GPDST school which I got into through the 11 plus free place scheme(the group no […]

Preventative Tamoxifen makes the news again: are GPs denying patients a drug that could prevent breast cancer?

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Introduced by Dr Karen Morton and written by Miss Liz Ball Consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Today’s Daily Telegraph and other papers today raise again the issue that ‘GPs are denying women’ a pill that prevents breast cancer. That drug […]

Dr Karen Morton interviewed on Sky News about solutions to the NHS crisis

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Dr Karen Morton, founder of Dr Morton’s, appeared Sky News on January 15, discussing solutions to the NHS crisis in the context of Theresa May’s comments on GPs and 7 day service. In this interview, Dr Morton proposed a number of solutions to alleviate pressure on the NHS, including finding additional funding from external sources […]

Hear! Hear! It’s time to call the doctor!

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Sophie Borland is to be congratulated for her front-page endorsement (I’m not sure she knew it was an endorsement) of the merit of speaking with a good doctor on the phone. It has for a long time been known that […]

Maternity services: It’s sad that the media causes such distress

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See Dr Morton’s – Pregnancy advice I am saddened that Sophie Borland (Daily Mail Oct 26 2016) thinks it is good copy to alarm the thousands of women who are imminently expecting a baby. Of course the provision of maternity […]

Dr Morton’s Junior Doctor Cartoon Campaign #7

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Written by Dr Priyanjalee Perera, Dr Morton’s Marketing Manager, former Junior Doctor and Writer of The Disillusioned Medic Sadly, this is the last day of our cartoon campaign. We’ve had great fun over the last week making a mockery of the shambolic way in which the government has handled this issue, but we hope we’ve […]
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