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Berenice Langdon

Berenice Langdon is a GP working in south-west London. She has also been a rural doctor in Australia. Her interests are microbiology, genetics and public health, and she is the author of ​Learning Microbiology through Clinical Consultation​

<p>Bacteriophage therapy research has had a chequered history</p>
Health and Wellbeing

Viruses that help: Is bacteriophage therapy the future of medicine?

<p>‘It’s not Covid patients making up the huge workload but all the other people that haven’t been seen properly for the last 18 months’ </p>
Voices

The NHS isn’t at risk of being overwhelmed – it’s already happened

The Longer Read

In-person GP appointments save lives and must return

<p>Some GPs are seeing more sexually transmitted infections than usual </p>
Health and Wellbeing

What’s been going on with sex during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Health and Wellbeing

Is long Covid real? And if so, what is it?

<p>Could we prevent colic in babies by handling them differently?</p>
Long Reads

Do new-born babies come with bacteria or are they sterile?

The majority of patients in the study had never been diagnosed with heart problems before
Voices

My patients are dying to save the NHS – literally

Voices

I agree with Boris Johnson’s decision to refuse the nation a sick note

How did a violent and aggressive therapy become a panacea for all conditions?
Health and Wellbeing

To truly help the NHS we must think about CPR, it is not an elixir

A ‘Do not enter’ sign at the door of a GP surgery in north London
Voices

I’m on the NHS frontline, but my surgery is quieter than ever

In January, the PM admitted he did not have a worked-up plan to end the social care crisis
Voices

Boris Johnson’s plan for social care won’t help my struggling patients

Doctors are blamed for putting up barriers to patients trying to access medicinal cannabis – but the benefits are unproven and the risks manifold
Health and Wellbeing

‘It’s going to be carnage’: The true risks of legalising cannabis

People wear protective facemasks at a commuter train station in Bangkok, Thailand, on 28 January, 2020.
Voices

I have to diagnose coronavirus without ever seeing a case

Voices

I have to diagnose coronavirus without ever seeing a case

People wear protective facemasks at a commuter train station in Bangkok, Thailand, on 28 January, 2020.
Handling patients has an impact on doctors’ personal microbiomes... which they then take home and imprint on their homes and their families
The Longer Read

The dirty truth about washing your hands

Related video: Tory candidate suggests people using food banks need help managing their budgets during 2019 general election hustings
Voices

How food banks could be contributing to malnutrition in the UK

In one case, the company deemed a homeless man who was at risk for self-harm and suicide as not needing housing support because he was 'no more vulnerable than an ordinary person'
Voices

Home visits are breaking GPs like me – and putting patients in danger

Government guidelines aren't always good for you
The Longer Read

Forty years of fake news has created the obesity crisis

Government guidelines aren't always good for you
The Longer Read

Forty years of fake news has created the obesity crisis

Antibiotics use is particularly important in poorer countries, where people die from preventable infections every day
Voices

If I prescribe sleeping tablets to 25 people, one of them will die

A still from the footage showing planet Earth frozen as a 'Blue Marble' once more. Image credit: Nasa
Voices

Contraception is a vital weapon in the fight against climate change

Over 500 experts are sent on CQC inspections across adult social care, primary care and hospitals every month
Voices

Does Uber hold a solution for Britain's social care crisis?

700,000 patients could be left without access to a GP according to the Health Foundation
Voices

I am an NHS doctor and the government expects me to work for free

GPs have criticised Jeremy Hunt's plan for a seven day NHS
Voices

There are parts of the NHS crisis that nobody is talking about

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