How life events change patients' perspectives of their conditions

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7459.229

From trainee to consultant, BMJ Group offers doctors around the world tailored information, special events, learning resources and recruitment services at every step along their career path.

... by doctors, for doctors, for patients
We are open for entries!

Online learning

BMJ Learning

High-quality CME / CPD for doctors and other healthcare professionals. BMJ Learning features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats. Find out more

Courses and Qualifications

BMJ Masterclasses

BMJ Masterclasses, led by experts, help clinicians to use the latest evidence and recent guidelines in practice and meet their CPD/CME requirements. Find out more

Exam Preparation

The leading provider of online exam preparation, helping over 167,000 healthcare professionals to pass their exams. Find out more

onExamination

Search all BMJ research articles:

From

Limit by

This article has a correction

Please see: A memorable patient: How life events change patients' perspectives of their conditions

Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment. Please log in or subscribe below.

Alison Duncan, specialist registrar in dermatology,
Richard Azurdia, consultant dermatologist,
Julian Verbov, professor of dermatology

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool
Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Liverpool

In September 1939 the second world war had just begun as Germany invaded Poland, and 12 year old Agnes was evacuated from Liverpool to a family in Northwich, Cheshire, for safety from bombing. Within a few months her dormant atopic eczema had flared, and she was treated at a local clinic. By March 1940, her mother was missing her and decided, as most Liverpool mothers did, to bring her child back home to the city as she preferred to have all the family together …