Archive - Peter’s Substack: Musings on Medicine and More

Eclipses, and our troubles. Are we trifles in the cosmos?

Apr 7 •

March 2024

What I Do, I Understand

Confucius and Me

Mar 22 •

Touching the Buttons

Mar 10 •

Light and Colour: Mood and Mind

Let’s say I gave you a choice between two weeks of sunny, cheerful days and two weeks of dull, grey, and gloomy ones. Would you jump at the chance for…

Mar 1 •

February 2024

High Tech, Low Touch

Look at Me, Not My Monitor

Feb 8 •

December 2023

Cloudy With a Chance of Northern Lights

Brightening the World

Dec 30, 2023 •

Psychotrauma: Beyond War’s Headlines

The machine on the Israeli neurosurgery ward that kept the 18-year-old boy with shrapnel in his brain alive made a constant, low-pitched hissing sound…

Dec 7, 2023 •

November 2023

THE FACES OF WAR

I woke each morning on the kibbutz where years later the Hamas terrorists would come to murder young parents and their children in their homes. The…

Nov 14, 2023 •

September 2023

Three Precious Eggs

Dominica, Eastern Caribbean The man brought to see me had been convulsing for 20 minutes. I gave him an injection to stop the seizures, and he gradually…

Sep 17, 2023 •

August 2023

The villages are full of AIDS orphans. Almost everybody gets malaria. The medicine is primitive, and there’s little access to anything better. There are…

Aug 19, 2023 •

More Medical Flip-Flops: Leeches, Lobotomies, and Learning the Hard Way

In “Medical Flip-flops: Is It Flip to Call Them Flops?” I wrote about the flip-flops that signal advances in medicine. The bottom line: don’t flip out…

Aug 8, 2023 •

July 2023

Medical Flip-flops: Is It "Flip" to Call Them Flops?

I get baffled and bewildered. In my previous post, “The Comatose Cow”, I confess I’m baffled by wounded parrots and comatose cattle. I admit being…

Jul 23, 2023 •

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