Sublime

“See one, do one, teach one” was the pedagogic approach to everything from performing a lumbar puncture to managing heart failure.

Hippocrates and Osler: It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.

Morantz-Sanchez quotes Professor Henry Hartshorne, delivering the 1872 commencement address at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania: It is not always the most logical, but often the most discerning physician who succeeds best at the bedside. Medicine is, indeed, a science, but its practice is an art. Those who bring the quick eye, the recept

In recent years, Shaw’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century drama about the ethics and economics of healthcare has been seen as prescient, prefiguring the establishment of the National Health Service in Britain and the Affordable Care Act in the United States. Even with these developments, modern Colenso Ridgeons still grapple with limited resources, ine

Stephen was a wretched patient; sometimes he looked to M’Alister as an omniscient being who would certainly produce the one true physic; sometimes the ship resounded to the cry of ‘Charlatan’, and drugs would be seen hurtling through the scuttle. The chaplain suffered more than the rest: most of the officers haunted other parts of the ship when the

Lamb (& goat)

In a different use of the same analogy to a similar end Osler advised: “Live a simple and a temperate life, that you may give all your powers to your profession. Medicine is a jealous mistress.”