Crossing the Square, Part II
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital By John Graham-Pole, MBBS, MD I wrap my skimpy white coat about me, shivering under the January snowfall as I cross Barts Square heading for the Med-Surg block. Whose idea was it for doctors to don white coats in January, anyway? Is it to give us an air of spotless sterility? Hardly […]
What I Did and Didn’t Learn from Sir Joseph Rotblat, Nobel Laureate for Peace
Sir Joseph and me, September 2024, Thinkers’ Lodge, Pugwash, Nova Scotia In 2010, Dorothy and I were visiting our stepdaughter Cathy in Pugwash in Northern Nova Scotia, where she was living in the Sunset Community, a centre for people with disabilities. We came upon her pulling weeds outside the library and we ventured inside. My […]
Arts Medicine: Where and When and How and Why Did it Start?

Aboriginal Rock Mural Kimberley Region, Western Australia Posted by John Graham-Pole I don’t have answers to any of these questions, but I can tell you a story. It’s 1960, and I’m entering St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School in the city of London on a quite unlooked for scholarship in Classical languages. It’s true I’ve been […]