Category: Medical education

  • 19/08/2020
    I read Educated by Tara Westover earlier this year (it was published in 2018 and was a best seller). It…
  • 23/07/2020
    Whenever I have looked at the CVs of many young doctors or medical students I have often felt saddened at…
  • 17/07/2020
    Henry Miller died a few months before I started medical school in Newcastle in 1976. At the time of his…
  • 03/07/2020
    I have forgotten who asked me to write the following. I think it was from a couple of years ago…
  • 02/07/2020
    One thing that sticks with me from medical school onwards (both as student and faculty) is the partisan nature of…
  • 30/06/2020
    Once there was General Practice, medicine in the image of the late and great Julian Tudor-Hart. Then there was Primary…
  • 18/06/2020
    Story 1 I started my dermatological career in Vienna in the mid-1980s as a guest (I am deliberately not using…
  • 10/06/2020
    Being an emeritus professor has lots of advantages. You have time to follow your thoughts and allow your reading to…
  • 06/04/2020
    35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he…
  • 23/03/2020
    ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky | by A.J. Lees | The New York Review of Books People are…