" When that night in the desecrated cathedral the monks bent over the body of the proud,
fastidious archbishop and stripped off his bloodstained Cistercian's habit to re-place it by his …

AMONG general practitioners many" old-timers" have intuitively done magnificent work with
their nervous patients, whereas many others in younger generations have often felt baffled …

There are many reasons for medical discontent. First, and most obviously, there is the social
revolution with disturbing changesin the peckingorder and the material dispossession of the …

In a recent address to the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges,
President Darrell G. Kirch, MD spoke of the “undercurrent of deeply conflicted feelings about …

In this book, Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Phillip R. Slavney, MD, offers a concise guide that
will help primary-care physicians evaluate and treat patients who are delirious, demoralized …

Over the past few years, a colleague and I have been collecting the stories of doctors who
have been sick [I]. Curiously, such tales are not easy to find. Doctors write case histories …

How to cope with anxiety JOHN P. COBB Page 1 Postgraduate Medical Journal (October
1982) 58, 623-629 How to cope with anxiety JOHN P. COBB BA, MRCP, MRCPsych. St …

For nearly 2,000 years the medical student has become a physician by swearing to abide by
the Oath of Hippocrates. This code of medical ethics, an altruistic summation of …

Many people are torn between what they want to do and what duty or necessity compels.
Some, finding it im-possible to travel in contrary directions at the same time, throw scruples …

The tragedy of Dr. Suzanne Killinger Johnson focused attention on the darkest side of
postpartum depression. It also had specialists pondering an anomalous but all-too-common …