I’m going to tell you a secret: all physicians have days when they want to quit everything, when the prestige and pay – or rather lack of them – are not enough for the immense burden they carry on their shoulders. Most of us don’t quit our jobs – some of us may switch specialties…… Continue reading Flowers and pain
Category: Out-of-the-box thinking
A morbid experiment
They starved so that millions could live. Favored by the possibility of doing their service as conscientious objectors in a country that allowed them to do it, 36 young men set on to experience lab-controlled starvation for the benefit of civilian victims all over the world – without knowing that the study itself was funded…… Continue reading A morbid experiment
When being lazy pays off
How to do nothing and yet accomplish everything – with my Protestant work ethic, I was too intrigued to not pick up a book with such a title – how can one be lazy and say it out loud? I honestly thought the book was a joke, but I ended up writing an article about…… Continue reading When being lazy pays off
Man’s Search for Meaning
A classic tribute to hope from a physician who has experienced the Holocaust, – this book became a bestseller – indirectly proving that this subject matters to us all. The book starts with the depiction of life in the Nazism prisoner camp – how the only thing that mattered was survival – thus explaining the…… Continue reading Man’s Search for Meaning