As health care professionals we all have a responsibility to help curate and deliver the most accurate information and help define the ‘truth that lasts” – we should not take this responsibility lightly
A Stroke of Insight
September 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A few years ago I was looking after an elderly woman in the emergency department who had suffered a stroke. She was aphasic — unable to understand speech or create comprehensible sentences. I explained to her family what had happened to her. Then her daughter asked me a question for which I hadn’t prepared an answer: “What does it feel like to have a stroke?”
The Creative Spark
September 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
What On Earth’s Wrong With Placebos ?
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m a big fan of TED and strongly suggest you subscribe to their video podcasts if you don’t already. Rory Sutherland is an advertising whizz. He argues that adding intangible or perceived value to things we already have is perhaps no bad thing and perhaps may be the only alternative to a world of unsustainable consumerism.
Lessons from 1918
May 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I read a book called ‘The Coming Plague‘ when I was in medical school. It was fascinating. It formed a picture of the world in my mind as a bubbling soup of seething micro-organisms waiting for the right circumstances to break out, to come forth and multiply – at our expense. It also introduced me [...]
Brilliantly fighting infection
May 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
