Lessons from Osler 001

Osler

The Master Word for success in medicine, according to William Osler, is Work. But in the Generation Y era of lifestyle above all else, isn’t work a dirty word?

Choosing Life or Death

Alicia von Stamwitz: … Instead, he takes a small step back from the gurney and asks, “Does your father have a living will?” I freeze. No emergency room doctor has asked me this before. I answer, evenly, yes. “Do you have durable power of attorney?” Yes…

Tired and afraid

‘Tired and afraid’ is a poem that could be about any one of a number of patients I have met over the past few years. But its not. It’s about a man I recently met whose words are hard to forget. I doubt I was of much help. The curtains pushed aside Show an old [...]