Tag: medicine
A love letter to medical students
I love training medical students. They bring me great joy and as they are one of the most under-appreciated groups of people in any...
The joy of training medical students
I love training medical students; they bring me great joy.
Medicine is an apprenticeship system and the time-honoured approach of “see one, do one, teach...
The power of communication in medicine
Medicine has a language all of its own – a combination of Ancient Greek, Latin, people’s names, made-up words and acronyms – but what...
A Touching New York Story
This piece is a departure from my usual missives on physician health and suicide. I want to share an experience I’m sure many readers...
Fitting in – is it really worth it?
Have you ever considered how often you do things just to fit in, to go along with friends or family, even though you feel...
Sleep – our daily medicine
Sleep is something that many of us struggle with, and this struggle can affect our whole day, or sleep can be part of our...
Food is medicine, so why do doctors know so little about...
I am a doctor and everything I know about food that is worth knowing, I learnt somewhere other than medical school. We learn so...
Kindness Is in the Air
The title of this piece is a take on the airy and buoyant song of 1977, “Love Is in the Air.” Over the last...
Why aren’t women leading the way?
Women are natural leaders. We lead by example, by reflection and by virtue of the fact we have an innate wisdom in our bodies...
A man in a woman’s body – there is another way
I grew up believing it is a man’s world and that to succeed in the world I would have to be like a man...
