Humanities resources to support healthcare professionals and patients
The fortunate man here is the doctor. Sassall meets anguished patients on his rounds – the close relatives of the dying, those who are ill and want to die, the immobilized who are made desperate by a kind of claustrophobic fear of their own bodies, the insanely jealous, the lonely who try to kill themselves, Read More …
First, I had mastered the practical basis of my profession, the art and craft of Medicine, which begins and develops only after a man leaves University and Hospital. Secondly, I had endured an extremely severe training and initiation: the very best I could have had. It not only made one exact, punctual, and methodical; but Read More …
A dying child in rural Russia in 1916, by Mikhail Bulghakov. At eleven o’clock that night a little girl was brought. The mother’s face was contorted with noiseless weeping. When she had thrown off her sheepskin coat and shawl and unwrapped the bundle, I saw a little girl of about three years old. For a Read More …
The false narrative of choice. S Luckett G. ‘Miss,’ she said, as I bit my tongue. I was choking on the worst insult a female junior doctor can bear, ‘I know that crystal meth is really my problem. I’m going to quit the meth.’ ‘Love,’ I started, a reflex term of endearment for the wretched Read More …
A rural doctor is shown after a late night operation in which he had failed to save the life of a pregnant woman and her baby. Every few years Eugene Smith’s classic Life magazine photostory is uncovered again. See the full article with high resolution photos (Time Magazine). Commentary This extraordinary historic record, beautifully captured, Read More …
On working in the NHS as a nurse, Molly Case. Commentary Molly Case was a student nurse when she recorded this, but before that, already a poet and performer. Here she was invited to speak at the RCN annual meeting. There is an alternative YouTube video of the same piece set in hospital. Further info Read More …