The ten rules of doctors’ engagement Review of Patient, Colombia, 2015, directed by Jorge Caballero Screening at the London Film Festival, 15 and 16th October 2016 https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/seatSelect.asp https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/mapSelect.asp Reviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, Screening Room Editor The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘patient’ as ‘a person receiving or registered to receive […]
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Book Review: Dad’s Not All There Anymore
This is the first of a series of comic book reviews on the theme of Dementia. Reviews of Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles and Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s to follow. Dad’s Not All There Anymore by Alex Demetris Reviewed by Harriet Earle As an academic, I have a love-hate relationship with Wikipedia. I […]
Global Humanities – Finding New Narratives
Conflict, Culture, and the Clinic: Finding new narratives Ayesha Ahmad In a recent publication “Syria Speaks”, the book volume is a collection of various forms of narrative that have been born in conflict. In reflection, there is a line that says: “War ignites people’s anger, and acts against culture, which is the work […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (3)
Reminiscence Bumps: self-mythology and the landscapes of the mind by Eleanor Holmes When I think about the landscapes of the mind, I recall the undulations of the brain’s surface. The ridges and valleys of cortex, the gyri and sulci I had learnt about in my neuroanatomy classes aged nineteen. Those white plastic […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (2)
Creative Non-Fiction: imagination and the nature of truth by Eleanor Holmes A copy of Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table lay on my bookshelf for years, a gift from my father, one of his favourite texts. The fact that I’d not actually read it until my creative writing tutor at Newcastle University, the author […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (1)
Poetry and Reflection: a powerful tool for learning This post is part of a series over the next three days on the theme of Creative Writing and Medical Humanities by Dr Eleanor Holmes (pen name Eliot North). As a GP Tutor I’ve delivered seminars on the patient centred medicine (PCM) component of Newcastle […]
Film Review: X + Y
X+ Y- UK, 2014, directed by Morgan Matthews Reviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, Screening Room Editor Books, films and plays exploring the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have traditionally met with critical acclaim; ‘The Reason I Jump’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reason_I_Jump), ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night-Time), and ‘Rain Man’, USA, 1988, […]
Book Review: Cancer Poetry
Ian Twiddy, Cancer Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 Reviewed by Sue Spencer Cancer remains one of the most feared of diseases. It evokes dread in the general public and stimulates startling headlines about its insidious and destructive nature. Even as knowledge increases and cancer detection rates improve, this remains the case, despite the fact […]
Poetry Book Review: The Wound Dresser
Two poetry book reviews will be featured this week. The second review will appear on Friday. Jack Coulehan, The Wound Dresser (Albuquerque: JB Stillwater, 2016) Finalist for the 2016 Dorset Poetry Prize, selected by Robert Pinsky (Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000). Reviewed by Barbara Salas The Wound Dresser […]
Film Review: Arab Film Festival
Both films reviewed below will be screened at the upcoming Safar Arab Film Festival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, September 14-18 Before the Summer Crowds, Egypt, 2015, directed by Mohamed Khan Opening night film for Safar, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 14th September 2016, http://www.arabbritishcentre.org.uk/event/summer-crowds-qabl-zahmet-al-saif/. In Arabic with English subtitles. […]