Tag: curiosity
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Montaigne’s Essays: Emotions and empathy
David JeffreyEdinburgh, Scotland The term empathy was coined a little over a hundred years ago and since then its definition has evolved. At first empathy was regarded as a sharing of emotions, but modern medicine emphasizes cognitive aspects of the concept.1 Regarding the sharing of emotion with suspicion has led to a form of professionalism…
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Incurably curious: mystery and drama in clinical case reports
Julia Dahlkamp London, United Kingdom Thomas Sydenham, 1688 Mary Beale National Portrait Gallery, London Introduction In recent years the genre of the written medical case report1 has come to be regarded as unscientific, a form of anecdotal evidence low in the hierarchy of study designs.2 Clinical geneticists, on the other hand, have emphasized…
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Making medical education interesting and exciting
Anuradha Joshi Gujarat, India Can we make an education system which will retain smiles on the faces of our children?1 — Abdul Kalam Image by Anuradha Joshi At a time when doctors are confronted with a veritable explosion of new facts and information, teachers in medical schools should face up to the challenge…