Would flexible working times protect the environment?

Up until 2012 I considered work the noblest virtue of all. I thought work can bring healthy self-esteem, important resources for sustaining life and a solution to the most pressing medical and ethical problems of the world. I got the job of my dreams in a high-stress clinic doing research in my favorite niche. I…… Continue reading Would flexible working times protect the environment?

What makes people keep on living?

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People that reach their 90s and further didn’t have an easy life, at least not the ones I’ve met in my medical practice. Nor are they naively optimistic – if you spend some time with them, most of them experience the sour depression of involution. They are aware of their times past, of their lost…… Continue reading What makes people keep on living?