Peter Holden is a pioneer of immediate medical care who led a remarkable response to the terrorist attack in Tavistock Square on 7 July, 2005. Recently elected as BMA treasurer, he looks back over a remarkable career. By Peter Blackburn
As a resident doctor, you can find yourself in a new town, hundreds of miles from friends and family. But there is often strong support available from your new colleagues, in the shape of the doctors’ mess. Here, Sonya Bushell and Nitish Trikha describe how their messes help resident doctors socialise and integrate into the medical community
Occupational health is often misunderstood, but it can offer huge opportunities that go well beyond the patients being treated. Tim Tonkin reports
SAS doctors can often 'go under the radar'. As a week celebrating their achievements comes to a close, three of them tell Tim Tonkin about the opportunities and challenges they have had, and why it's important to 'create visibility'
For GP, life peer and former BMA president David Pitt, health and politics were inextricably linked. As part of Black History Month, Tim Tonkin looks back at the legacy of a physician and political and civil rights activist who never stopped fighting for his principles or patients
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Doctors have come from across the world to work for the NHS – it is often said there would not be an NHS without them. But many international doctors have felt an increasing sense of threat, fuelled in part by the toxic debate over immigration. Peter Blackburn reports
