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  Selected Writings and Publications
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A guide to the Hippocratic Oath, BBC News Online (26 October 2008)
The harms of medicoplasty, British Medical Journal (7 October 2008)
  'Ethical issues in disaster medicine', book chapter in Matheson, J. (ed) Making sense of disaster medicine, London: Hodder Arnold (forthcoming 2009)
Ethics and epidemics, American Journal of Bioethics (16 September 2008)
Argus and the Cyclops in the clinic, British Medical Journal (9 September 2008)
Medicine as performance; what can magicians teach doctors?, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (September 2008)
Clinical ethics comes of age, British Medical Journal (27 August 2008)
The minefield of medical morals, BBC Online (2 August 2008)
Clarifying best interests, British Medical Journal (2 August 2008)
"What does the law say?", British Medical Journal (30 June 2008)
The 'Four Quadrants' approach to clinical ethics case analysis, Journal of Medical Ethics, July 2008.
  Medicine and the Arts; reflections on harm, Academic Medicine (forthcoming, December 2008)
  Should we amputate medical history?, Academic Medicine (forthcoming, December 2008)
The essence of medicine: an ethicist in the neurology department, British Medical Journal (24th May 2008)
  'Medical ethicist', book chapter in Eccles, S. and Sanders, S. (eds) So you want to be a brain surgeon? A medical careers guide, 3rd edition, Oxford: OUP (forthcoming 2008)
  'Confidentiality' (with Raanan Gillon), book chapter in Singer, P. and Kuhse, H. (eds) A companion to bioethics, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming 2008)
Tricky exam questions; examination ethics for students, Student British Medical Journal (May 2008)
  Delegating consent to junior doctors, Junior Dr, issue 8 (May 2008)
A crisis of confidence, British Medical Journal (22nd March 2008)
The dilemma of authorship, British Medical Journal (1st March 2008)
The ethical junior: a typology of ethical issues faced by house officers (with Ros McDougall), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, February 2008, 101, 67-70
What is a surgical complication? (with Dr James Wilson) World Journal of Surgery, February 2008 (Online First)
Getting a taste of their own medicine, British Medical Journal (2nd February 2008)
How far would you go? British Medical Journal (26th January 2008)
A perforated education, British Medical Journal (8th December 2007)
William Osler and the jubjub of ethics; teaching medical ethics in the 21st century, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, December 2007.
Letter to a new medical student, Lancet Student, November 2007.
Aequinimitas, British Medical Journal (17th November 2007)
Katie's hysterectomy - a medical ethicist's view, BBC Online, 08/09/2007

Ethicist on the ward round, British Medical Journal (29th September 2007)

No patient is an island, British Medical Journal (15th September 2007)
It's tough at the sharp end of medicine, BBC Online, 13/08/2007
India poses huge health challenge, BBC Online, 06/08/2007
Indian patients suffer in silence, BBC Online, 23/07/2007
  Two methods of case analysis, Junior Dr, issues 5 and 6 (2007)
 
Tainted medicine; Doctors and the abuse of human rights (with Jen Richardson), Student British Medical Journal (July 2007)
The ethics of reality TV (with Dr James Wilson), BBC Online, 21/02/2007
Can deceiving patients be morally acceptable?, British Medical Journal (12th May 2007)
Inside the mind of the doctor (review of Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think), BBC Online, 09/05/2007
What would you do, doctor?, British Medical Journal (21st April 2007)
What makes a good death?, BBC Online, 21/02/2007
  IVF for older women: raising the ethical questions, The Times, 29/01/2007
Confidentiality and telephone consultations:  time for a password (with Dr Josip Car), Journal of Medical Ethics (December 2006)
The right way to argue, BBC Online, 20/12/2006
Playing mind games, BBC Online, 06/12/2006
The changing nature of medicine, BBC Online, 03/12/2006
Life and death in the neonatal clinic, Sunday Sentinel, 19/11/2006
Time to get streetwise, British Medical Journal (9th December 2006)
An inconvenient truth; how poor handwriting remains a problem in medical practice (with Dr Samantha Hettige), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (December 2006)
Unveiling the Oxbridge interview, BBC Online, 16/10/2006
  How the doctor's nose has shortened over time, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (December 2006)
The Irwin video: would you watch it?  BBC Online, 08/09/2006
  Ethical theories made easy (with Dr Gillian Bergson), student BMJ (November 2006)
  What's the deal with DNR?, Junior Dr, issue 3, (September 2006)
Can doctors ever abandon their post? BBC Online, 16/08/2006
Virulent epidemics and scope of healthcare workers' duty of careEmerging Infectious Diseases Journal, volume 8, issue 12, August 2006.
The need for a father?  An ethical viewpoint, BBC Online, 14/07/2006
  Ethics in practice: a family's request for deception (letter to the editor), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, volume 88, issue 8, August 2006.
The trick of solving boredom on wards, BBC Online, 15/06/2006 (a modified, less academic version of the article below)
A magical education, British Medical Journal, 10/06/2006
The 'Mount Everest' dilemma, BBC Online, 25/05/2006
The ethics of assisted suicide, BBC Online, 11/05/2006
What if: the results, BBC Online Magazine, 04/05/2006
What if... , BBC Online Magazine, 02/05/2006
  A case of dubious consent, Junior Dr, issue 2, (May 2006)
  What is false hope?, Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2006, vol. 17, issue 4, 367-368
  Protecting confidentiality in telephone consultations in General Practice (with Dr Josip Car), British Journal of General Practice (May 2006)
Baby MB - a medical ethicist's view, BBC Online Magazine, 15/03/2006
Physician, wash thy hands, International Herald Tribune, 02/03/2006
Truth-telling and deception in the doctor-patient relationship: a case analysis; Clinical Ethics, vol. 1, issue 3, 130-134. [the PDF is the article's proofs.  The final version has no significant changes]
My colleague's incompetent - what shall I do?, Junior Dr, issue 1, February 2006
Dissecting 'Deception, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, vol. 15, 457-464.
Doctors' first duty:  professional or personal? International Herald Tribune, 22/10/2005
Get inside your doctor's head, BBC Online Magazine, 12/10/2005
Calling a spade a spade:  doctors, student doctors and medical students, British Medical Journal (03/09/2005)
The scientific use of the imagination:  disclosing delicate information and the role of relatives in decision-making, Imperial College Medical Ethics Unit Newsletter (Spring 2005)
  Commentary on "Ethics of HIV testing in general practice without informed consent: a case series", Journal of Medical Ethics (December 2005)
Life is like a tooth; Teaching medical humanities through literature, Clinical Teacher (June 2005)
Medical Ethics and Law:  Surviving on the Wards and Passing Exams (with Gill Bergson), (London, Trauma Publishing), January 2005.
Meeting the ethical needs of doctors, British Medical Journal (02/04/2005)
Warning!  This film may be bad for your soul, International Herald Tribune, 19/03/2005
The doctors' ethical dilemma (with Dr Kerry Bowman), The Times, 11/03/2005
The dos and don'ts of managing an epidemic, The Independent, 04/01/2005
The moral of Santa's story, BBC online, 24/12/2004
How to be a good medical student, Journal of Medical Ethics (December 2004)
The not-so-sweet science: the role of the medical profession in boxing, Journal of Medical Ethics (October 2004)
The double-edged sword of trust in medicine, Contributing editorial, International Herald Tribune, 13/09/2004
  The use of ethics in the EFL classroom, English Teaching Forum (October 2004)
Brought to heal or heel?, Lead article, BBC magazine, 31/08/2004
Danger:  white coats, Feature article, The Independent, 02/08/2004
Some ethical issues to think about, Rapid Response to paper on SARS, British Medical Journal (09/07/2004)
Medical Ethics:  Truth is not always the best medicine, Contributing Editorial, International Herald Tribune, 29/06/2004
The ethics of face transplants, Contributing Editorial, International Herald Tribune, 16/06/2004
The silence of the healers at Abu Ghraib, Contributing Editorial (with Ronald P. Sokol), International Herald Tribune, 29/05/2004
  Reflecting on our 'yuk', Think (Issue 9, Spring 2005)
In medicine, 'yuk' is not a useful guide, Contributing Editorial, International Herald Tribune, 18/05/2004
Is medical ethics malodorous? (with Dr Piers Benn), Hospital Doctor (13/05/2004)
How (not) to be a good patient, British Medical Journal, vol. 328 (7437), 20/02/2004
Take one Tolstoy with each meal, The Times, 14/03/2004
Can lies be good medicine?, The Globe and Mail (Canada), 07/02/2004

To live and let die, Feature Article, The Guardian, 11/09/2003

Trust me, I'm a doctorFeature Article, The Independent, 05/01/2004
How to father a child when dead, Think (Summer 2004 issue)
The proliferation of cheerfulness, (Winner of the 3rd Oxfordshire Science Writing Competition, 1999), Oxford Times, 26/03/1999
The duty to care and severe infectious disease, MSc thesis, Imperial College, London.
From anonymity to notoriety: a history of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever, MSc thesis, Oxford University.




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