The great divide
I am forever puzzled by the great divide between “doctors” and “patients”. In healthcare we talk about patients like they are a different subset of people, sometimes even a different species. We talk about the “patient population” as though the rules are different for them and somehow don’t apply to us. Yet every time a […]
Who’s life is it, anyway?
People choose to study medicine for all sorts of reasons. A lifelong dream. Family expectations. Academic ability coupled with a lack of any better idea at seventeen. Whatever the motivation to go to medical school, the reality of working as a doctor is often different to expected. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. Many […]