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There are still plenty of ‘old schoolers’ who believe that both doctors and vets, like clergymen, are following a vocation. Apart from...

My daughter is British and a junior doctor. She is not on strike. She is working in New Zealand. She went for various reasons, intending...

The vogue for long walks literally knows no bounds. In the UK, there’s the John Muir Way in Scotland (134 miles), Hadrian’s Wall Trail...

What we excrete has interested public health experts for many years, particularly in monitoring the spread of infectious diseases...

“A human life will inevitably contain periods of pain and trauma, but [these Harvard professors] found that these moments can be weathered