Dear friend, My new book “Path of a Healer: a time to reflect”, is a story of the boundaries between life and death. This memoir is crisp, clear, articulate, though-provoking and deeply forthright. The conversational format of the book is very interesting because throughout the memoir,...
Human Species Thousands of years shaped human evolution through natural changes and the need to adapt to the environment. We also learned that cooperation with others offered the protection crucial to survival. Our reliance on other individuals has made us "ultra-social animals." These interactions led to...
IF you wait for inspiration, you may wait all your life, because it does not come as an order. Inspiration must come through the capacity of creating, of imagining, a capacity we all have within us, at different levels. During my 40 year career, my...
Most of us think that as soon as we retire, our legacy does not exist anymore because we as the owner of this legacy, are not there anymore in the capacity established previously by our profession, our income, our wealth. This is the hard cold...
“Ingenuity is the quality of being clever, original, and inventive, often in the process of applying ideas to solve problems or meet challenges.” The reach of Nanotechnology: Nanotechnology is a field of research and innovation concerned with building materials and devices on the scale of atoms and molecules....
Coronaviruses are named for crownlike spikes on their surface and belong to the Coronavirinae subfamily, which are further classified into 4 groups: the α, β, γ, and δ CoVs by phylogenetic clustering, of which α and β are known to cause infection in humans. The first human...
Most people believe that human health is regulated entirely by human genes. But a growing body of research has shown that gene products from non-human organisms, namely the billions of bacteria viruses and other microbes that live on and inside us, may also influence our...
The evolution of cardiac surgery after the Second World War was driven by 2 major objectives: to correct congenital heart defects and to restore the function of heart valves affected by rheumatic heart disease (RHD). The growing affluence in industrialized countries led to the near...
What do a scalpel and a pen have in common? At first glance, the response would be not very much, but after a moment of reflection, I realise that they are both instruments of creativity. As a surgeon, I used this small straight thin-bladed knife...
Truth has been a topic of discussion for thousands of years and there are many different questions about the nature of truth that are still the subject of contemporary debates. It would be impossible to survey all there is to say about truth in any...