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The Doctor
November 2023
Skin deep
Is it a bruise, a rash, or an unconscious bias? Seren Boyd meets the medical student highlighting the risk to patients from textbooks full of white people
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- Consultants in England are re-balloting to extend their strike mandate. Government has made an offer which CC has put to its members.
- Junior doctors in England voted to extend their strike mandate and took joint industrial action with consultants in England in September and October.
- SAS doctors in England are balloting members on strike action between 6 November and 18 December.
- Junior doctors in Wales are balloting their members on strike action between 6 November and 18 December.
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