Category: Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals

Richard Lehman: Sharing medicine—negative capability

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It’s just over a year ago that an essay called “Tolerating Uncertainty” appeared in the NEJM, headed by a quotation from Keats: “At once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement . . . when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after […]

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Richard Lehman: The tale of the greedy metalworker

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In his own lifetime, Leo Tolstoy’s best-selling book was not War and Peace or Anna Karenina, which sold by thousands to middle-class Russians. But his book Azbuka, sold by hundreds of thousands to schools and to the poor: it was a collection of tales and instructions which transformed children’s education among the largely illiterate population […]

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