This week’s Song of the Day is Cole Porter’s “Physician”. Attend a recording of Gertrude Lawrence singing same: BONUS: Video of Julie Andrews pretending to be Gertrude Lawrence singing the same song:
Tag: doctor
Handy tips for identifying future doctors
A new Italian study points towards a handy way to identify who might become a top doctor. The method: Compare the lengths of a person’s second finger and fourth finger. It’s that simple. The monograph is called The Second-To-Fourth Digit Ratio Correlates with the Rate of Academic Performance in Medical School Students and appears in […]
The sitting-on-a-bed problem
Doctors are not allowed to sit on patients’ beds — at least in many British hospitals they’re not. Dr. Iona Heath explains in the BMJ: Still trying to come to terms with the widespread banning of flowers from hospital wards (BMJ 2009;339:b5406, doi:10.1136/bmj.b5406), I learnt recently from senior nursing colleagues that sitting on a patient’s […]