The most unsettling thing about reading Beethoven’s post mortem report was not the graphic detail in which the condition of his liver, kidneys and pancreas were described. It was the…
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Christ Stopped at Eboli is Carlo Levi’s memoir of his forced exile to rural southern Italy. He was a writer, painter and political activist from Turin, and because of his…
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“Did you know: Robert Liston performed the highest mortality procedure in history – 300%!! He was performing a leg amputation but in his haste he sliced off his assistant’s finger…
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When I finally finished reading Middlemarch, my cousin hailed it as a “life event.” Not for the physical effort of turning over and over its nine-hundred pages, I’m sure, but…
The ghost of Hippocrates looms over every encounter between a doctor and a patient. To the medic, he is a pioneer, who persuaded the Western world to abandon primitive superstitions…
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I was six years old when I wrote my first high fantasy novel. It consisted of ten thrilling chapters, over which a brave warrior travelled on dangerous roads and vanquished…
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