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In this room I had pronounced patients dead
When breath becomes air. It was my primary care doctor, calling with the chest X-ray ...

Death from the other side of the bed
Ian Rankin. I don’t really blame people for shunning the dying. I try to do ...

Speechless
My next shock was a surgical one. On a certain Sunday morning a carriage-and-pair drew ...

An amazing murmur
On the other side of the ward, there's that 'amazing murmur' - the mitral stenosis, ...

What did I gain in my training?
First, I had mastered the practical basis of my profession, the art and craft of ...

The last 1000 days
The last 1000 days, Molly Case Commentary As we slowly make the shift to practise ...

Give me back my love – Orfeo’s doomed quest
Commentary All of us, doctors or health workers or patients, will suffer loss in our ...

32 tumours in one lung
What the doctor said: Raymond Carver ‘He said it doesn’t look good He said in ...

The shock of the machine
Commentary Thom Green is drummer for Alt-J – and has kidney failure and a transplant, ...

I spy…death
Dealing with death, Miguel Torga Coimbra, 10 December 1958 Twenty-five years now that I've been ...

Penicillin then, Penicillin now
Use of Penicillin in 1945, Miguel Torga Coimbra, 1 February 1945 Penicillin. I too want ...