Tag: medicine
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 have had, perhaps in a...
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 that fitting in is something...
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 daily medicine.
We may think we...
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 much in medical school, but...
Grace Under Pressure – Medicine in the Spotlight
Last night, together with our students and some staff we read the play Grace under Pressure. This is a powerful verbatim theatre work by David Williams and Paul Dwyer,...
The Power of Communication – It may Heal or Harm
In the past weeks many of us watched the real life drama of the cave rescue in Thailand. The International team, who had never worked together, achieved what seemed...
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 few weeks, despite so much...
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 that we are deeply connected...
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 in a woman's body –...
Listening with heart
“Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.”
William Osler
Listening is an art and in clinical practice its value cannot be over emphasised. Learning to listen fully with...
