Tag: 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 is the purpose of that...

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 have had, perhaps in a...

Have you ever considered how often you do things just to fit in, to go along with friends or family, even though you feel that fitting in is something...

Sleep is something that many of us struggle with, and this struggle can affect our whole day, or sleep can be part of our daily medicine. We may think we...

I am a doctor and everything I know about food that is worth knowing, I learnt somewhere other than medical school. We learn so much in medical school, but...

The title of this piece is a take on the airy and buoyant song of 1977, “Love Is in the Air.” Over the last few weeks, despite so much...

Women are natural leaders. We lead by example, by reflection and by virtue of the fact we have an innate wisdom in our bodies that we are deeply connected...

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 in a woman's body –...

Albert Einstein is said to have said: “Everything is energy”. We are willing to accept this as a possibility or even as fact when it comes to science in its many and varied forms, but we tend to draw the line when it comes to us. If everything is energy, and it is, what part of that ‘everything’ does not include the human body?

When we talk about being doctors, we don’t say that we do medicine or that we are medicine; we say that we practise medicine. What do we mean by...