In its ostensible pursuit of technological excellence, modern medicine has quashed the last vestiges of scepticism, which is the birth right of the evaluating and questioning right brain. Doctors note - “You are here not to worship what is known, but to question it”

This (from my pre-twitter book, “Living Dying”) describes #Twitter just right

•“Financial hardship in relation with cancer diagnosis and treatment is called financial toxicity and affect quality-of-life (QoL). ••We found most RCTs do not capture financial toxicity experienced by patients in real-life settings.”

Glass raised and with loved ones by his side, Dan had one last night out before ending his life at an assisted dying clinic days later, as Sinatra’s My Way played in the background. Every dying person should have this choice. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/f…

Death is inevitable. Suffering should not be. #ImWithPrue Please sign 👇

India - a new ruling on care of the dying will force some to live life “of machine-related suffering” by Arun Ghoshal and colleagues blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2023/06…

“Reverence for life deserves a balancing opposite, reverence for death. This dual concept in its manifold sense, is a way towards still farther reaches of human nature,and human soul. It is good, for man, to revere death so that he can revere life..”

Another instance of #causitis x.com/drmanukothari/…

if aging is a disease then how do we go from a fertilized egg to puberty and sexual maturation? is that a disease too or we only catch the disease of aging at sexual maturity?

“In fact, perhaps there should be a patient’s day, where we doctors express gratitude to patients for being our true teachers, who as part of our knowledge ecosystem, train us & contribute to our learning. Respect & gratitude cuts both ways.Respect has to be earned, not demanded”

79% of psychiatrists would recommend immediate treatment with an antidepressant for a depressed patient – but only 39% would take that path themselves. Most would opt instead for watchful waiting. doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp…

Ambroise Pare's 16th century prayer – I dressed him, and God healed him – is as relevant today as it was many a century ago… Don’t forget!

This! Which of these are you / yours? instagram.com/reel/DCgDvFnPC…

Another instance of #causitis Not even an imho before this narrative. x.com/drmanukothari/…

If your parents’ time has come, not even their executioner can save them. And if their time hasn’t come, not even their physician can kill them. If you worry about such stuff, you will never have quality sleep..

“How accurately they defined the idiot, the cretin, the imbecile, the epileptic, the hysteric, hypochondriac & neurasthenic. Instead of admitting that little was known about what went in the human brain, either healthy or sick, the professors stacked up Latin words”~Isaac Singer