David Knight: Medical students must see through the glamour of TV hospital drama if we are to solve our GP crisis
For some reason I started shaking uncontrollably on my hospital bed as I was being examined.
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David Knight: Some older men buy Harley Davidsons, I went for slim-fit pyjamas – and still ended up in A&E
I was feeling sorry for myself while nursing a suspected broken finger in casualty.
David Knight: Is the secret to fixing the whole sorry Brexit saga buried in Union Terrace Gardens?
I wonder what Guy Fawkes would have made of the flames of anger and hatred engulfing our political world.
David Knight: Napoleonic strategy in towel Waterloo, and putting our trust in a ‘King’ of sorts…
I was gazing skywards from my customary sunbed position outside our lovely rented holiday villa, with its quaint country-style wall, garden and little gate.
David Knight: MND looks an almost impossible puzzle to crack – but hopefully clues will soon be revealed
I'll never forget a chilling conversation more than 30 years ago which still haunts me today.
David Knight: Uplifting conclusion is tempered by harsh reality that some more equal than others
Are you like me and find that certain quotes stay locked in your head for years, never to be erased or forgotten?
David Knight: Prescription drugs and dementia – why we need to get to the truth of the issue
Is it possible that doctors are putting us at greater risk from dementia with routine prescriptions for other illnesses?
David Knight: We can all be the superheroes who defeat the online bullies, for ever and ever
As a child I dreamed of being invisible.
David Knight: No sweat – how I’ve found a gentle new way to exercise these ageing limbs
I was standing on one leg in the middle of a park swirling my hands around my head as though I was balancing imaginary plates or trays of drinks.
David Knight: Inviting US medical providers into the NHS would be political suicide for Boris
Here I was in an NHS clinic again – it’s a rehabilitation routine which has become so familiar over the past year as I try to regain a normal life after major surgery.
David Knight: Brown bin service leaves a lot to be desired
Just like thousands of kids up and down the country awaiting exam results, I ripped open the envelope with mixed feelings - anticipation laced with trepidation.
David Knight: Eat enough of the bad stuff and you can stop worrying about managing the apples and pears
I perfected the art of walking downstairs backwards while enjoying a flying visit to catch up with relatives in Birmingham.
David Knight: Faced with a gun, I threw in a grenade – sometimes brinkmanship is best
It was, as President Trump might have put it, a "beautiful deal".
David Knight: Pity the poor drivers blamed for all the sins of modern cyclists
I'll never forget the day I dropped a lit cigarette onto my lap and it disappeared somewhere between my legs.
David Knight: We love to hate Nick Kyrgios because deep down we all want to be pantomime villains too
I recall pointing my mobile-phone camera at a traffic warden in a popular north-east park who then threatened to have me arrested on the spot.
David Knight: Something-for-nothing millennials need to grow up – and fast
My Irish mother endured a difficult childhood with zero prospects before emigrating from Cork to the UK as a teenager with her family of 12 - so one piece of advice she passed onto me had a huge impact.
David Knight: Mobility is key to good health and beating stress… But escape rooms should help too
As I tried in vain for the umpteenth time at airport security to enter my digital boarding card from a mobile app, I could sense a growing exasperation among the crowd waiting in line behind.
David Knight: Speech must be free but we should never be reckless about its cost
Words do, indeed, have consequences.
David Knight: If Brexit Britain needs a Churchillian saviour, might Boris just be the man?
It was the moment I had been dreading.
David Knight: Theresa May didn’t fail only on Brexit – just ask the women still fighting to get back their stolen pensions
Stealing handbags from grannies in their 60s is a shocking crime, but easy money for greedy opportunists.
David Knight: Some men’s sheds are overflowing with junk – others with enormous opportunity
I could see a pair of them lurking at the end of the supermarket checkout - another sign that the "Invasion of the Shed Men" is well underway.
David Knight: That’s not the way to do it – comparing politics to Punch and Judy is an insult to slapstick
Talk about giving Punch and Judy a bad name.
David Knight: Jeremy Kyle Show’s public humiliations a sad reflection of how we treat vulnerable
I only ever dipped into The Jeremy Kyle Show by accident, but I always felt a mixture of morbid fascination – as you do when passing a road crash – and an uneasy feeling about its mix of stage-managed misery and character assassination.
David Knight: Get out and do some Dolphin spotting…while you still can.
Maybe I had more in common with dolphins than I thought as I stared out at the North Sea through streaming eyes and dripping nose with a bitter wind whipping my face mercilessly.
David Knight: Why revamping a park at the same cost as building a couple of brand new primary schools is worth every penny
Do you remember when a British Airways flight to Dusseldorf went to Edinburgh by mistake?
David Knight: Climate change catastrophe or a cheese salad sandwich?
I was having a chat with my grandson Jacob about Dippy the Diplodocus after he travelled from Aberdeen to Glasgow to see one of the world's most famous dinosaurs.
Are Brexit-obsessed MPs neglecting pressing national issues? You can bet the House on it
I offer a world exclusive which might explain why our MPs were tying themselves in Houdini-proof knots during that exhausting and exasperating Brexit indicative-voting marathon.
Chronic pain is torture: could the SAS teach us ways to manage it better?
I was quite good at a 60-yard dash in school athletics.
Smacking ban: why it really might hurt them more than it hurts us
We are edging closer to a ban on parents smacking their children in a move which is backed by the Scottish Government.
Hospitality is hard work: are millennials too lazy to plug the workforce gaps?
I once held a door open for a man rushing out of an off-licence store and apologised to him for getting in his way.
Bags of trouble: why are the biggest firms so bad at getting the small things right?
You know that sinking feeling when you are well into a long journey and think you've left something important back at home.
Forgotten local hero: the scientist spy who bamboozled the Nazis to help win the war
I wish I had worked harder at physics, but even I knew the difference between velocity and speed and that combined they were propelling me to a cliff edge known as abject failure.