The Physician Funambulist Should be a Model of Anti-racism in Healthcare (Reflection on Simpson II)
Academic neurologist and neuro-oncologist Lara Ronan reflects on Bob Simpson’s essay, ‘Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope’.
‘Encountering Pain’: Book Review
‘What is this thing called pain?’ Katharine Cheston reviews a new edited volume which sets out to explore this question.
Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope (Reflection on Simpson III)
Specialist Registrar Amy Belfield reflects on Bob Simpson’s essay, ‘Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope’. For Simpson’s original essay, click here. For a reflection from Emergency Medicine Registrar Miriam Saey Al Rifai, click here. For a reflection from academic neurologist and
Compassionomics
A powerful call-to-action limited by its inability to adequately define ‘compassion’: Lara Ronan, MD, reviews “Compassiononomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring makes a Difference” by Stephen Trezaciak and Anthony Mazzerelli (2019).
Games for Wellbeing: Empathy for the Blocks in Thomas Was Alone (2012)
Guest author Agata Waszkiewicz explores the necessity of empathy in gaming to educate about mental illness with the example of indie creation Thomas Was Alone (2012) With the unquestionable success of video games in
“Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: A Critical Intervention in Medical Humanities” by Anne Whitehead reviewed by Iro Filippaki
Anne Whitehead, Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: A Critical Intervention in Medical Humanities (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Empathy, power structures, and what we are capable of not doing In a 1988