Tag: medicine

These moments have taught me to become adaptable and go with the flow. My own solid rhythm is paramount these days, otherwise disappointment and frustration come knocking. Trust me, I have tried to control it and wanted it to be another way and it doesn’t work.

Let’s be honest, as doctors and health professionals we learn to live with anxiety in the body. Not all at once perhaps, but by degrees.

We are each and every one of us a lighthouse, designed to shine bright and light the way for others. It is for us to let that light out and shine in full, reminding everyone we meet that they too are that light, for this light lives inside us all, and we are all here to shine and light the way home together.

I have come to medicine later in life.  I was 32 when the impulse to study medicine came, 34 when I sat the entrance...

We are currently in the grip of a worldwide panic over COVID-19, or 2019-nCoV, the novel coronavirus pandemic. As I write, supermarkets are being stripped...

I met a beautiful man several years ago and we fell in love instantly. He was not working as a doctor when we met...

The words love and medicine are rarely used in the same sentence. Not many people say they love taking their medicine. Not many doctors...

One of the joys of having a Christmas/New Year break is having the time and space to read. I recently read a book called:...

I have witnessed many changes within medicine over the last 30 years – one of which has been the increasing fragmentation of medicine despite...

I used to live life ruled by time. I was not a very obedient subject, and was always running late, but it ruled me,...