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Arts COVID-19 MEdicine Perspectives 

Michael Rosen: Surviving Covid-19

June 9, 2021June 10, 2021 admin 665 Views 0 Comments arts, Covid-19, poetry

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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COVID-19 Perspectives Politics SLIDER 

The value of a life in America: How many deaths are needed for prompt social and political recognition of pandemics?

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 admin 2 Views 0 Comments Covid-19, pandemics, value of life

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

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 admin 1485 Views 0 Comments

‘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

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 admin 1218 Views 0 Comments

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

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 admin 1508 Views 0 Comments

“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

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 admin 969 Views 0 Comments Francis Collins

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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Ethics Perspectives Philosophy Religion 

In search of truth

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 admin 1061 Views 0 Comments 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

February 5, 2020February 8, 2020 admin 1039 Views 0 Comments art of medicine, 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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