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]
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It is impossible to estimate how many decisions a doctor has to make on any given day in practice. There is diagnosis, prognosis, tests, treatment, dosage, and a thousand other questions to be answered from the moment they enter their building to the moment they leave. You pair that with the high demands placed on [...]
Dr. Groopman holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has published more than 150 scientific articles and serves on many scientific editorial boards. He is also a staff writer at The New Yorker and [...]
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Rebecca Skloot began her brilliant writing career with a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an award-winning science writer and editor, and a former correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’s NOVA scienceNOW. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics from goldfish surgery [...]
Living in the world of medicine there is probably little way that you have gotten this far without hearing at least once of the cell line Hela. The first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory. This monumental discovery made possible some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, [...]