A fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Ronald W. Dworkin is a physician and political scientist and the author of Medical Catastrophe: Confessions of an Anesthesiologist. His writing can be found at RonaldWDworkin.com.
While focusing on the categories it generates through analysis, science sometimes overlooks those aspects of individuals that cannot easily be summed up in a word.
Studying art taught me to think differently about medical procedures.
The title of "doctor" is a very useful thing, provided you can make other people believe it is important.
The strength of ideologies and fads in the US helps to explain why physician involvement in public life has declined.
Doctors need a medical humanities that does more than just help them see health and disease through a patient’s eyes.
Reconstituting the totality of a person knowing only the “parts” of his or her mind is equally nonsensical.