Kate Cole-Adams is a writer and journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Until recently Kate worked part-time training reporters at the Age newspaper. She has also worked as a senior writer for publications including Sydney Morning Herald and Time Australia magazine. Her non-fiction work Anesthesia won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, 2017 and the 2017 Australian and [...]
Join with Doctors Book Club as we read Kate Cole-Adams’ book Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness.
Join with Doctors Book Club as we read Henry Marsh's book Do No Harm: Stories of Life Death and Brain Surgery.
Henry Thomas Marsh was born 5 March 1950. Marsh attended the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. Later he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University College, Oxford University, achieving First Class Honours, before graduating with Honours in Medicine from the Royal Free Medical School. Marsh is a leading English neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical [...]
Eric's Bio from Leigh Bureau Healthcare today is in the midst of a thrilling transformation: the rise of digital medicine. Mobile technology and cheaper gene sequencing are opening the door to a whole new kind of care. Patients, who have tools as good as their doctors, are becoming true partners in caring for themselves. Portable devices are [...]
The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Eric Topol’s book The Patient Will See You Now. Join us over the coming months as we read and check back soon to hear our thoughts.
The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Atul Gawande's book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. Join us as we read and check back soon to hear our thoughts.
“So I’m not defective. In fact, in recent years I have started to see that we Aspergians are better than normal! And now it seems as though scientists agree: Recent articles suggest that a touch of Asperger’s is an essential part of much creative genius.” ~ John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye – [...]
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1957, John soon found that he was "always a problem child — often sad, a loner, unable to make friends. The problem was, that Asperger’s Syndrome had not yet been “discovered” So rather that being helped, he ended up dropping out of high school and using his fascination and fixation [...]
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