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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 14, 2017January 29, 2023

Epitome of current medical literature

Epitome of current medical literature: To play this film please click here or on the image above. This film takes as its title the opening section of the British Medical … Continue reading Epitome of current medical literature

Categories: Architecture, Bridge of Allan, British Medical Journal, Family history, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1967, A L Kennedy, a modern ruin, A S Byatt, Adam Nicolson, Albert Camus, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew Greig, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Authors whose words have featured in my films, BMJ, borrowed words, C.P. Snow, Candia McWilliam, Cardross, Dr Peter Gordon, Dunmore, Dylan thomas, Edmund de Waal, Edwin Morgan, Epitome of current medical literature, Evelyn Waugh Gabriel García Márquez, F R leavis, Ford Madox Ford, Gavin Francis, George Orwell, Hale Bopp, Hale Bopp teddy has travelled wide., Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hanya Yanagihara, Hole Ousia, I have deliberately placed myself at the centre of this film, I have included consideration of passing time as literature reminds us that medical science cannot ignore this, Iain Banks, Ian Hamilton Finlay, In this film I surround myself with some of those authors I have enjoyed reading and who have helped me to grow as a person and as a doctor, Incorrigibly plural, Iris Murdoch, John Aubrey, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kenneth Calman, lad o'pairts, Lampedusa, Laurie Lee, Literature, Literature opens up new worlds for me, Liz Lochhead, Makars and Mediciners, Margaret Drabble, Mary Midgley, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Max Porter, medical humanities, medical literature, Mossgrove, Mukul Kesavan, multifarious learners, novelists, Old Stirling Brridge, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Deeley, Penelope Fitzgerald, Peter Davidson, Peter Gordon, Peter's short films about multifarious learners, Physicians of the future: Renaissance of Polymaths, Poets, Power of Reading, Raymond Tallis, Reading for pleasure, Reading in the garden, Reading makes us better doctors, rebel antiquary, renaissance of generalists, Richard Holloway, Richard Holmes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robin Hyde, Social maverick, Spem in Alium, St Peter's Seminary, T S Eliot, The Antiquary, The idea behind this film is to question what may be considered as 'medical literature'?, the opening section of the British Medical Journal of the last century, the pineapple, The Rebel Antiquary, Thomas Tallis, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Walter Scott, we are surely very narrow if we understand only one culture (they talk of two cultures - but it seems to me there are twenty two. And all of value), We cannot put ourselves into the minds of others and truly share their lived experience., We must remember that we are all subjective., We need a Renaissance of Generalists, what has hampered progress is too narrow a view of the sciences relevant to medicine, what if I can't imagine another culture, What may appear as "monomania" is quite deliberate!, William Carlos Williams

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 28, 2016January 24, 2023

A Modern Ruin

The ruin of St Peter’s Seminary has been in the news. This given the Hinterland event of music and lighting: In December 2013 I visited St Peter’s Seminary. I found it … Continue reading A Modern Ruin

Categories: Ageing, Architecture, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1967, a modern ruin, After The Week I've Had, Altar, Antiquary, Architecture, Cardross, Dexter Britain, Discretions and absences, Dr Peter Gordon, Going Under, Graffiti, Hale Bopp, Hinterland, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, it has lived twice as long as a ruin as it had as a working building, Le Corbusier, Little Sparta, Modern Ruin, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, RUINS in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, Scotland's most important "modern ruin", Social maverick, St Peter's, St Peter's Seminary, stairway to heaven, teddy bear, The Altar of COSTA, The Antiquary, the architecture award of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1967, The Rebel Antiquary, The War In My Head, Time catches up, time passes listen

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