Medical morals
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2013 was an auspicious year for medical research. A new vaccine for malaria was developed, there was a revolution in DNA analysis, and there was a major advance in human cloning when stem cells were produced…
It was late on a Friday afternoon in November. I was a 21 year-old medical student diligently waiting for an opportunity to practice some medical procedures when a patient was admitted who was happy for…
Patients have gone online, digital natives are entering medical schools and regulatory bodies, like the General Medical Council in the UK, are scrambling to respond to the impact these changes are having…
Black Wednesday. The July Phenomenon. The Killing Season. Disquieting. Disconcerting. Disturbing. To what event do these evocative terms refer? A stock market crash? A solar eclipse? Genocide? Not even…
Sometime in the third millennium BC, if not before, some entrepreneurial warrior donned a helmet to protect his brain from blows to the head. He may have been mocked as a coward, but soon enough copper…
Empathy and compassion, or the lack thereof, have been making waves in the healthcare arena. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, recently bemoaned a lack of compassion in the nursing profession…
In 1798 the British physician, Edward Jenner, described how he had used infective material from the pustules of patients suffering from cowpox to inoculate healthy children in order to immunise them against…
The concept of personal responsibility in health has an odd habit of falling in and out of fashion. Galen, the ancient Roman father of medicine, once declared it was shameful for a man to “suffer a pain…