What happened to all the cowboys?

Innovation and Risk in Medicine

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go” T.S. Eliot

BASICS OF UNANI MEDICINE

Unani medicine is based on Ibn Sina’s The Canon Medicine. You are probably wondering who that is! Well, Ibn Sina was a Persian polymath who is considered one of the most influential thinkers and writers from the Islamic Age. He wrote around 450 works, but only a few have survived. There are 40 known…

LAMENTATIONS FROM BURNOUT

A man lost in time, living in the past, just secretly hoping and waiting that one day he will find acceptance in a society that is constantly evolving. It used to be about finding the perfect connection with someone, but then the passion died and along with it the dignity and…

MY WAR WITH MEDICAL SCHOOL

My war with medical school begins the moment I enter the hospital doors. My heart starts racing, and I can feel the sweat running down my forehead, my glasses fogging up. The people around me begin to blur as I start to pace down the corridor minding every step I take so as not to…

A brilliant biography of medical pioneer Jonas Salk

No one born after about 1950 is likely to have any living memory of the abject fear that seized hold of the American psyche under the annual threat of polio. But I remember.