Practicing medicine requires more than just acquiring knowledge or skills through training; it is a calling that requires innate talent, argues Dr. Jabir Jassam.
Across the globe, opinions and approaches to vaping are a constantly moving target as countries attempt to navigate this relatively new space of balancing tobacco harm reduction for smokers while minimizing the uptake by youth.
Intervention without human rights goes by many names—involuntary institutionalization, compulsory drug treatment, “coerced care,” forced abstinence or a combination of all of those terms.
My barber of more than 40 years asked me whether I missed being a doctor. After a few years in retirement, only now do I feel the loss of what medical practice has meant to me for so long.