Dr Ken Hillman, an intensive care specialist, speaks to Richard about his work with the very ill or dying in hospitals.
He’s the first doctor to have formally qualified as an intensive care specialist in Australia. He says death was once treated as a relatively normal and inevitable experience. It is now a highly medicalised ritual.
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I’m on drugs—REAL drugs. And seeing as it’s October, but only the first, I thought I’d make an almost Halloweeny post. Prescription drugs are scary, man.
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From the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Neil Gaiman talks to Audrey Niffeneggar. For quite some time. Plug in, settle down, listen. Lots of interesting stuff here, including the process of writing The Doctor’s Wife.http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/09/edinburgh.jpg
Getting the word out promoting the benefits of science based medicine.
In 2006 James Maskalyk, a young, single ER physician, gave up a successful practice at one of Toronto´s finest hospitals to join Médecins Sans Frontieres. Armed with a wide set of medical skills and unburdened by a family of his own, he volunteered to serve in the world’s most dangerous places. After months of waiting, he received his assignment: a small village called Abyei, sandwiched in between two military compounds on the border of northern and southern Sudan. This event was recorded at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
