History of Medicine
May 24, 2023
The Medicine of History
I think I’ve told you this before, but when I was a newly-graduated house officer (US: intern) I worked with a brilliant and yet gentle, compassionate surgeon called Arthur Bullough; “Mr Bullough” as it was in those days, as surgeons love the reverse snobbery of not being called “doctor” but being called “Mister”, going back […]
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Jul 10, 2020
Newsletter This Week Is An Education
In 1980 I was one of the world’s handful of top “clinical ecologists”, as we called ourselves. In a way clinical ecology began as a movement in the 1950s, with fears about radiation pollution, particularly the health risks of strontium-90. This dangerous substance was a product of fall-out from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. It […]
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