Triumph
Well done to Rebecca Zhou and Florence Poon for creating this beautiful animation, accompanied by their own music composition and poetry. Their work was shortlisted …
Culture & Care
Breaking Bad News….Badly
One of the situations I encountered in a surgical outpatient clinic impacted me deeply. The patient was an 89-year-old gentleman diagnosed with colorectal carcinoma. The …
Public and personal interests — conflicted.
The practice of medicine often pits public interest against the needs and sensitivities of the individual.
Literally Medicine: The Courage to be Disliked ~ Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (1 April Event)
Literally Medicine: The Courage to be Disliked ~ Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga Medical Humanities Book Club If you are interested in reading books and …
My pounding heart.
Walking slowly on a path,
With wind gently brushing on our faces,
My heart beat against chest wall out of tempo.
Podcast: On becoming a healer
In this podcast, which builds on Dr. Weiner’s book, On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), two physicians, take a thoughtful, critical look at medical training and the culture of medicine.
An Uneasy Experience
An Uneasy Experience 55 Word Essay An old man lay beside my grandpa’s geriatric bed with his amputated right leg — up to mid-calf. Someday later, he lost …
The wrong button; a serendipitous diagnosis.
The wrong button; a serendipitous diagnosis. By Dr Lam Muk When the electronic medical records showed a newly admitted 18-year-old with fever, my first …
My Brain is in a war it will lose.
My Brain is in a war it will lose. In this wonderful essay, Carrie Jade Williams, who was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease at the age …
Is Life Priceless?
Is Life Priceless? In her article ‘Capitalism Has its Limits’, Judith Bulter asserted that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed how different values are attached to …