The Doctors’ Book Club Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See Rich men, trust not in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health; Physic himself must fade. All things to […]
Literature and medicine
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: Considering patients’ stories through Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son
The Doctors’ Book Club Adam Johnson The Orphan Master’s Son After her son was arrested by the secret police, Anna Akhmatova spent seventeen months waiting outside the Leningrad prisons for news […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: Haruki Murakami’s The Colorless Tsuluru Tazaki and the Complexity of Grief
The Doctors’ Book Club Haruki Murakami’s The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Invoking the ubiquity of sadness, Emily Dickinson writes: “I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, […]
When Breath Becomes Air: A book review by Salil Patel
When Dr Paul Kalanithi (pictured) was 36, and with most of his neurosurgical training complete, his life was finally beginning to take the form he had anticipated. Just as pieces […]
Margaret Cooter: Suffering for art
It is a truth generally acknowledged that artists must suffer for their art. Also, it is widely believed (in the art community at least) that good art has its basis […]