I was fortunate enough to experience what neurology is like at the cutting edge recently, when I completed an away rotation in the United States. As should be obvious to anyone, this represented a markedly different practice to the one I usually partake in as a medical student in Africa. But whilst the incomparable economies [...]
I’m often quite specific about who’s allowed to know what about my day-to-day activities, not to mention my long term goals. Often, when I express these concerns or stipulate to whom information may be distributed (normally almost no-one) I am met with a lot of laughs or frowns or sighs. I must be crazy. Or [...]
Medicine, like so many things in life, is about stories. In a simplified form, one can posit that a story exists in the real world, namely, the story of how a seemingly healthy human being came to feel (or look or sound or smell) sick enough to seek your help. But this story, intriguingly, isn’t [...]
There’s no shortage of pain and suffering on offer during a human lifetime. As a certain German philosopher was kind enough to emphasize: Human existence must be a kind of error…it may be said of it, ‘it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens’ Schopenhauer Despite [...]
—- For our electives at my medical school we set our own outcomes and have to prove we met them. A ’bonus’ outcome of mine was to write the following essay. It is very long and probably not great, and the links to the references don’t work in WordPress, but it did take REALLY long, and involved a lot of [...]
Absolutistic believers killing each other and indoctrinating new people entering the room. Organizations taking money from their congregations for a being whose existence cannot be verified. Lazy, seemingly skeptical people who don’t believe knowledge is available. People who have a pathological certainty that nothing but emptiness lurks inside the bucket. What has this room come to?