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Touch Life - movie from Aeon.co. Commentary A 13 minute film touching gently on anxiety ...

The secret doctor. When I was still a core trainee, I looked at a chest ...

A rural doctor is shown after a late night operation in which he had failed ...

from Ward 64, by Sarah Broom. there is poetry all over the walls of oncology ...

Storyhealing, by Gavin Francis. The weight of clinical practice can be overwhelming for some – ...

Sally Wilson: My postpartum psychosis.  Grateful for ECT. Nina McCallig: grateful for being sectioned. I ...

On working in the NHS as a nurse, Molly Case. Commentary Molly Case was a ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1546. Commentary The Fountain of Youth has the magical property of ...

Dubois placed me upon the Mattress, & spread a cambric handkerchief upon my face. It ...

Forty-eight days ago I qualified ‘with distinction’; but distinction is one thing and hernia is ...

Lithotomy - and hence, the lithotomy position. Commentary French composer Martin Marais (1656-28) wrote this ...