Congratulations to Jimmy Wong, Alicia Liu, Anson Chan, Henry Leung and Ryan So for making it onto the shortlist for the MEHU1 creative work presentation. …

Literally Medicine: The Courage to be Disliked ~ Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga Medical Humanities Book Club If you are interested in reading books and …

Walking slowly on a path,
With wind gently brushing on our faces,
My heart beat against chest wall out of tempo.

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.

The Examination 55 Word Essay   Leaving the examination room, row by row, Examinees passed by with their faces beaming with confidence. Kneeling on the ground …

Halfway Point 55 Word Essay   Woken up on the plane. Annoyed, I looked to my left, he was twitching and jerking. Confused, I called. A …

Feeling Uneasy A 55 Word Essay.                             At dinner Mum told my relatives …

The unknown (what it feels like to enter medical school) 55 word essay White coat ceremony 2019 Thrown into the deep end Left to flounder Until I …

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 …

‘What may I do for you?’ One late night, an old lady with advanced malignancy was admitted to the hospital. Routinely, I asked her family for …

On Being A Coward Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton It was my second night as a houseman. …

On Switching Paths Journeying through psychology to medicine — A personal reflection. When we make big changes in life, doubts abound. There might be more questions than …

Book Review. A Million Little Pieces — James Frey https://www.amazon.co.uk/Million-Little-Pieces In a recent Medical Humanities tutorial, a final year medical student asked how he, an educated young man …

Illness: the cry for flesh Professor Jane Macnaughton of Durham University visited us in 2017. She introduced this excellent book, authored by her project collaborator to …

Becoming a doctor Published by Norton Books in 2010, the essayists in Lee Gutkind‘s book are good people not because they are distinguished doctors and writers; …

病床   上的選擇權：一個年輕醫生一個年輕醫師對生命與人性的誠實反思 穆琳醫生是香港大學醫學系畢業的內科醫生，目前任職於仁濟醫院。童年時，想當科學家；年紀稍長，想做個生物學家；進入醫學院後，   原本想當精神科醫師，最後在畢業時選擇內科。 她是專業、理性的醫者，並帶著年輕獨具的豐沛情感，在心裡與病人和家屬同傷、共悲。經常有人問：「當醫生的是不是對死亡看得很淡？」但她認為醫護人員對病人之死看似淡泊，不是因為見慣死亡，是因他們沒見慣那位死者；然而對死者的家屬來說，他們確實失去了生命中的一部分。 事實上，習醫以來，最令她深思的並非死亡，而是生命與人性，這也推動著她真誠寫下自己上臨床課、實習及正式從醫後，期間的種種關注、思索，甚至自我懷疑，有些她豁然開朗了，有些困惑仍在尋找答案。 她以「Muk Lam」之名，在端傳媒撰寫「生死觀」、「病房筆記」兩個專欄，如實記錄一名年輕醫者的失落、自省，以及重拾期待。 穆醫生回母校和醫學生分享新書

‘Hippocrates Now’ At medical school, we learn Hippocrates. But we often misidentify his teaching as a single-authored scholarship, and mistake Hippocrates oath as unchallengeable doctrine. …