Welcome to Barnaby Peppiatt's Medical Blog

So, the exciting news of this week is that we will finally be returning to school on the 8th of March. After months of school closures, I...

Attached below is my recent submission an Oxford essay competition (in which I wrote about the discovery of penicillin) entitled: The...

Genetic screening is, and will continue to be, subject to some controversy. The process of genetic screening involves the use of multiple...

Starting this new year, it seems that the return to school for me, alongside 12 million other children has (yet again) been thrown into...

Euthanasia can be described as the act of deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering. It come from two greek terms; eu-...

Confidentiality in medicine means restricting the circulation of information that a patient offers to those involved in their care and...

2020 has been a big year for the NHS. COVID-19, Brexit, the junior doctor contract; currently, there are a whole swathe of issues facing...

With the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine fast approaching, I have felt compelled to do some research into the ethics of compulsory...