Michael Rosen: Surviving Covid-19
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1n5s Last March, the author and educator Michael Rosen was placed into an induced coma after contracting Covid-19. He has
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Perspectives
The value of a life in America: How many deaths are needed for prompt social and political recognition of pandemics?
The value of a life in (Sri Lanka): How many deaths are needed by Epid Unit to recognition rampant community
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Being a good enough doctor – from BMJ 2020 & 1996
‘When students enter medical school or junior doctors start specialist training, they don’t aim to be a “good enough” doctor—they
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How medicine has exploited rationality at the expense of humanity: an essay by Iona Heath
BMJ 2016; 355 doi: https://doi-org.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/10.1136/bmj.i5705 (Published 01 November 2016)Cite this as: BMJ 2016;355:i5705 Iona Heath argues for a rebalancing of
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A doctors touch -Abraham Verghese Ted Talk
“A few months ago, a 40 year-old woman came to an emergency room in a hospital close to where I live, and she
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Francis Collins sings
Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician–geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led
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In search of truth
Why are we searching for the truth? From the point of view of a clinician, citizens/ patients assume that we
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The soul in medicine
The soul was a commonly invoked term during the 1950’s but has has largely declined in popular use in the
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