A poetry reading may seem an unusual highlight for a medical meeting, but the focus of this
Halifax conference, sponsored by Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine, was medicine …

Don Colburn anada's leading man of let-ters, Robertson Davies, has some advice for
American doctors: resist science, trust wisdom, learn to laugh, read Rabelais and take …

We beg to differ with Dr. RW Dunn's objections to the CMAJ cov-ers (Can Med Assoc J 1983;
129: 682). He asks what art has to do with a'journal by doctors for doctors. Everything, from …

I was delighted to read an article by a Professor Miles Little in the excellent new section of
the Internal Medicine Journal called 'Outside the Square'1, the title of which reminded me of …

This essay was originally begun on the premise that my medical school classmate and
beloved best friend of nearly 50 years, Dr. Donald Mark Potter of Lebanon, Pennsylvania …

MARy kORR RIMJ MAnAGInG EDItOR the title of this heritage piece is borrowed from a
compilation of the same title by CHARLES L. DANA, MD, and published in 1916 in Vermont …

“An Education” grapples with a central paradox of medical training: how to reconcile
advancing scientific understanding of the human body with the vast mysteries of human …

• why do people go into Medicine?", was a topic raised at a recent panel discussion. One
eminent. physician strongly voiced the answer." To play God!"'fhe other panelists did not …

I left the memoir untouched because I already agreed with its title. Poetry had saved my life
several times, in specific material ways. I could retail these ways to you, provide a detailed …

Before I studied medicine, I did an English degree. It was at a time when cultural studies had
not been invented and close reading of literary texts was still in fashion. There were a few …