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He spent his last £30 on a plate of oysters and a glass of champagne. He was a tall man, of fine and sophisticated manners. I observed him extracting every…

They brought her to the ward in a spring morning. I don’t remember which month it was. But it was one of those days with warm sunshine and a wind…

“Each of us has heaven and hell in him” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray There you are, in front of the mirror. It’s the end of a…

“Have you ever heard voices or sounds that no one else can hear?” We are in the middle of a clinical interview at an ordinary hospital, it doesn’t matter which…

Lying is wrong, or at least, it should be. A lie can be a tool to escape the monotony of a normal life but, sometimes, it is the only way…

It doesn’t matter how many people have told you “medicine isn’t a fair world”. You were there, with thousands of bright ideas which came and went out of your head…

The influenza emergency in the United States is not over and its bill is running on. After less than one week from the announcement of the Food and Drug Administration…