No longer a doctor
I have decided to retire from Medicine. This has not been an easy decision to make. I am not yet 52 years old. I feel most fortunate to have had … Continue reading No longer a doctor
Tag: Medicine
Profits in medicalising
The extracts below are from the Sunday Observer:
Barriers still exist
The following article featured in yesterday’s Perthshire Courier: Recently I compiled the following post on the ‘Edinburgh Seven’ and it occurred to me that the ‘prescribed harm community’ has faced … Continue reading Barriers still exist
Women get degrees 150 years late
Last week’s edition of the BMJ reported that seven current medical students at Edinburgh University had accepted degree certificates on behalf of the pioneering women who were among the first … Continue reading Women get degrees 150 years late
‘The Psychology of the Medical Profession’
I recently came across this letter published in the BMJ 81 years ago. Dr Arthur Brock has been remembered as the physician who treated the poet Wilfred Owen for shell … Continue reading ‘The Psychology of the Medical Profession’
Hints
I would suggest that these hints matter today as much as any time in history:
‘The over-certain doctor insists’
I have been trying to trace this old book but it seems to have gone out of print. I am not even sure that it exists. I hope that this … Continue reading ‘The over-certain doctor insists’
The over-certain doctor insists
Quotes by Evelyn Waugh, Candia McWilliams, Anton Chekov, and John MacMurray: