Like grief there are stages to tackling a terminal disease, both as the patient diagnosed and as a loved one trying to care for them. It is justifiably difficulty on both ends, but even more so if one gets held up on a stage and refuses to proceed. Helen Garner's novel "The Spare Room" gives [...]

Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, and had to start writing journalism for a living. Helen is known for incorporating and adapting her personal experiences in [...]

You might not have been able to follow or contribute to our Doctors Book Club for October, but you can still read back through the discussion. The following is the transcript from the How Doctors Think Twitter chat. #dbcOct [View the story "October 2016 @DoctorsBookClub Twitter Chat" on Storify]