The Letters of John Keats
I read the Letters of John Keats when I was writing my novel Mr Hammond and the Poetic Apprentice.
Which Medicines Worked?
When John Keats trained as an apothecary, medicines were made from plants, heavy metals or other natural products,
Why did they bleed patients?
Many reviews of my novel mention how readers were fascinated by the descriptions of medicine 200 years ago.
Don’t Steal the Surgeon’s Clogs: Surgery Past and Present
I never had any illusions that I wanted to be a surgeon. Blood, gore and heroics didn’t appeal to me, but medical students are required to study surgery as well as medicine.
John Keats and the North Middlesex Hospital
One day at the end of a busy GP surgery, I logged on to the North Middlesex Hospital website
Keats’s early life in Moorgate
No one is certain where John Keats was born but it was probably in the Moorgate area of London
Physicians, Surgeons and Apothecaries
When I trained as a doctor there was a definite hierarchy in the profession.