Monday August 18, 2008
Apres Lewis
David Skeel, in an editorial at WSJ, wonders why, even after 55 years, there is still no successor to C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity.
On Discarded Things
An interesting little article from a med student whose blog I read. "After my first patient died, I remember getting this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the janitor role down the corridor. I looked across the hall at a nurse who simultaneously shuddered and looked away. We could not watch as his living things were bagged and tossed away--as his room was raped."
Snuggling a Mannequin
"Recently I came across one of the saddest passages I've ever read. Writer Augusten Burroughs writes in his new book, The Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, about growing up with his distant, neglectful father. One part, in particular, was so raw as to make me almost cringe as I read it."
Religion Out of Medicine
This is a chilling possibility in my province of Ontario. "Ontario physicians could be stripped of their right to exercise religious or moral conscience if a new set of guidelines is accepted by their regulating body next month, critics say."
David Skeel, in an editorial at WSJ, wonders why, even after 55 years, there is still no successor to C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity.
On Discarded Things
An interesting little article from a med student whose blog I read. "After my first patient died, I remember getting this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the janitor role down the corridor. I looked across the hall at a nurse who simultaneously shuddered and looked away. We could not watch as his living things were bagged and tossed away--as his room was raped."
Snuggling a Mannequin
"Recently I came across one of the saddest passages I've ever read. Writer Augusten Burroughs writes in his new book, The Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, about growing up with his distant, neglectful father. One part, in particular, was so raw as to make me almost cringe as I read it."
Religion Out of Medicine
This is a chilling possibility in my province of Ontario. "Ontario physicians could be stripped of their right to exercise religious or moral conscience if a new set of guidelines is accepted by their regulating body next month, critics say."
Comments (4) »
1. John
August 18, 2008
9:32 AM
That’s an interesting article. We have similar problems in my profession of pharmacy concerning birth control pills and the morning-after pill. People argue that we are being paid to fill prescriptions so we should have to do it. I guess I’m not surprised that the same thinking is being targeted at physicians.
2. Brendt
August 18, 2008
10:58 AM
Skeel raises some good issues. But how about this for an answer?
God only created one C S Lewis.
3. Lance
August 18, 2008
2:51 PM
It’s hard to believe a father could be that way with his child (“Hugging a Mannequin”).
Thanks for article. As a grown child of an alcoholic and a father of three (who messes up an awful lot), it’s good to see that it could have been (and could be) a lot worse.
For those like Augusten, what a joy it will be to bask in the eternal joy and boundless love of Abba … forever.
4. Denny
August 19, 2008
11:30 AM
I live in California and our Supreme Court just ruled that doctors do not have a right to “discriminate” based on religious belief.
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