Reference Articles referring to Vernon Coleman


`Volunteer for Kirkby'
The Guardian
14.5.1965
(Article re VC's work in Kirkby, Liverpool as a Community Service Volunteer in 1964-5)

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`Bumbledom forced me to leave the NHS'
Pulse
28.11.1981
Vernon Coleman resigns as a GP after refusing to disclose confidential information on sick note forms.

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`Medicine Becomes Computerised: Plug In Your Doctor.'
The Times
29.3.1983
Sample quote: `When the children have finished playing the games on your Sinclair or Commodore Vic 20 computer, you can turn it to more practical purposes. For what is probably Britain's first home doctor programme for computers is now available.'
     `Dr Vernon Coleman, one of the country's leading medical authors, has prepared the text for a remarkable set of six cassettes called The Home Doctor Series. Dr Coleman, author of the new book Bodypower, which is a new self-help approach to medicine, has turned his attention to computers.'

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'Home Diagnosis'
Practice Computing
February 1983
Sample quote: `Have a home computer with a set of diagnostic programs and practical advice program to match and you've got a personal home nurse, a doctor in the cupboard, a wise relation and a health education officer all rolled into one.'

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'Computer aided decision making in medicine'
British Medical Journal
8.9.1984 and 27.10.1984
Editorial (and subsequent letter) discussing Vernon Coleman's computer software.

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'Doctor with the Common Touch'
Birmingham Post
9.10.1984
Sample quote: `Dr Coleman has the golden gift of being able to sweeten the bitter pill of knowledge with a coating of humour, and of presenting revolutionary concepts in words everyone can understand.'

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'Sacred Cows Beware: Vernon Coleman publishing again'
The Scotsman
6.12.1984
Sample quote: `Vernon Coleman's books combine straightforward advice with stern criticism of techniques, products or services which he believes to be a waste of time and money or which may cause actual harm.'

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'The Agony Uncles'
Options
November 1985
Sample quote: `When he began a five minute slot answering both medical and emotional problems on the BBC’s Afternoon Show last year, Vernon Coleman was touted as our first televised Agony Uncle.'

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'I'm Addicted To The Star'
The Star
10.3.1988
Sample quote: `Dr Coleman has consistently called for rethinking on the drugs known as benzodiazepines. Now the Government's Committee on Safety of Medicines has reacted to Dr Coleman's campaign. They have issued stringent guidelines for the prescribing of the drugs. Mrs Currie (Health Minister) told a Commons standing committee that the Government acted because of Dr Coleman's columns in The Star. She said `Dr Coleman's articles, to which I refer with approval, raised concern about these important matters and I sent them to the appropriate bodies.'

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'Our Doctor Coleman Is Mustard'
The Sun
29.6.1988
Sample quote: `Dr Coleman cuts like a scalpel through all the jargon to bring you fresh information on the medical matters that mean most to you...Dr Coleman's controversial views have often rocked the medical profession but that has never stopped him saying what he thinks.'

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'The Sun's Medic reveals his all'
GP
12.7.1991
Sample quote:`He clearly believes what he writes and nobody `not the editor of The Sun or anyone else' tells him what stance to take. And once he gets his teeth into an issue he will campaign in partisan and highly effective style.'
      `In a campaign against tranquillisers and particularly against one drug, lorazepam, he sent over 100 yellow cards to the CSM (Committee on Safety of Medicines) based on letters he had had rather than patients he had seen and coopted the equally publicity shy junior health minister Edwina Currie to his side. Coleman, who had campaigned against tranquillisers for many years, is acknowledged to have an important member of the coalition of media and medics which forced the CSM to issue guidance on the use of benzodiazepines to all doctors.'

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'Reading the mind between the lines'
BMA News Review
November 1991
Sample quote: `Not someone to mince his words.'

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'Doctors' Firsts'
BMA News Review
21.2.1996
Interview with VC.

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'Portrait of a doctor in the doghouse was unfair'
Independent on Sunday
14.4.96

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'The big league of self publishing'
Daily Telegraph
17.8.1996
Sample quote: `Dr Coleman is one of a growing band of go-it-alone novelists who have taken the risk of publishing their own books. Dr Coleman's books are published in 22 languages and he was published for many years by mainstream publishers like Penguin, Reed and Harper Collins, before going it alone.'

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'Doctoring the books'
Independent
16.3.1999
Sample quote: `He says there are three things in life worth doing: trying to change the world, trying to have fun and trying to make money. If you can do all three things at the same time then that's fantastic.'

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'Conscientious Objectors'
Financial Times magazine
9.8.2003
Interview with VC after he resigned from The People.

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'You have been warned, Mr Blair'
Spectator
6.3.2004 and 20.3.2004
Rachel Johnson talks to Vernon Coleman, the one man publishing sensation who has now turned his sights on the `lying little warmonger' in Downing Street.
     Sample quote: `He doesn't have an agent, a publisher, a distributor or a heap of remaindered copies reminding him he never earned out his advance, because he does all these jobs himself. As a result our doctor is completely independent, and can afford to stick two fingers up not only at medicine and mainstream publishing but also at Bush, Blair, Lord Hutton, those who want to surrender British sovereignty to a European superstate, the pharmaceutical industry, animal experimenters, Dr Atkins, Uncle Tom Cobley and everyone who eats meat.'
cf also letter which appeared in Spectator on 20th March 2004

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'Food for thought with a real live Maverick'
Western Daily Press
5.9.2006
Sample quote: `Simply a very good and genial individual and its a great pity there aren't more like him.'

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'The doctor will see you now'
Independent
14.5.2008
Sample quote:`He's frank, fearless and prolific. He's outrageous, outspoken and iconoclastic. He's a best selling author, strident campaigner and unashamed cross dresser. Dr Vernon Coleman is many things and he's written books about most of them.'

Sample quote:`A Vernon Coleman book will change your life...and may even save your life.'

Sample quote: `Dr Coleman has written best sellers on health and medicine for over three decades.'

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Note 1: Professor Vernon Coleman gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on animals in Scientific Procedures (2001-2) on Tuesday 12.2.02
      Note 2: Significant interviews with Vernon Coleman have appeared in Devon Life (`Vernon Coleman Scourge of the BMA.'), National health Executive, (`An interview with Vernon Coleman'), The Therapist (`Vernon Coleman - the doctor's dilemma.' and The Flag (`Interview with Dr Vernon Coleman.'

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