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Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... the possible relationship between vocalization and pain. My wife, in the grip of her dementia, is being cared for at ... of confusion for months or years on end. I have charted my wife’s vocalizations occurring over 24-hour periods for ... of pain in any understandable way, and during her 4-day hospital stay, including the periods before and after her ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... I am not ashamed to admit that I ended up with tears in my eyes. In Ethiopia she was called “Mother.”  Who was ... 6-year-old son, Richard, arrived to the Princess Tsehay Hospital. To their surprise the hospital had more pressing needs than a midwifery school or ...
Blog / BY: Linda Hawker, MD
1977 seems like a lifetime ago, and as I attended my 45th University of Alberta medical class reunion I was struck by the profound changes in medicine my classmates and I had witnessed over the decades. Many ... via an office, obstetrics, emergency department shifts, in-hospital care, and nursing home visits. Both solo and group ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... oath: “The regimen I adopt shall be for the benefit of my patients according to my ability and judgement.” Several thousand years went by ... Doctors treated the symptoms of their masters. Hospital settings were created for the underprivileged, where ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
A hospital, a school, a community centre, a park, a museum, a ... and a ship’s doctor on the North Shore. He was my mentor when I entered medical practice on the North Shore ... at his home. I was called to attend him, and he died in my arms. Carson Graham Secondary School was named for him as ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... staff, but her presence was not well-received in the hospital ward and the young resident physicians refused to ... the doors wide for many more women to become doctors.  In my 1955 UBC medical school graduating class, 6.6% of the ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... also help remove stigma associated with disabilities. At my rowing club I’m used to seeing men and women with ... rowing boats 26-feet long and 12-inches wide—the same as my very tippy single’s boat—but with modified seats and ... by Sir Ludwig Guttman of the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England. The Stoke Mandeville Games evolved into ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... Then the topic of Cushing disease took me back 66 years to my fourth year of medical school. My professor of neurology very respectfully introduced my ... (1869–1939) when they worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1896 and 1912. Osler’s interest in ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... in the grasp of the novel coronavirus brought to mind my encounter with breathing machines in the early 1950s polio ... a 264-bed building, was opened in 1952 as a tuberculosis hospital, but in the first 8 years its focus was on polio ... while he was having his peri-care. The nurses heard about my work in sexual rehabilitation and wondered if I would come ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... colleague and ardent reader of the London Times brought my attention to an article in the 2 December 2017 issue: ... John Money, PhD, (1921–2006) at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr Money was a prominent proponent of ... that had a page on sexual identity issues. As it was, my clinical and research interests were focused on other ...