Depth & Breadth of interest

Question 1

34. Do you read any medical publications?

Answer 1

In general, I often read Newscientist Magazine, however as part of my dissertation on the use of Umbilical cord stem cells I have read a range of medical journals.

Question 2

35. Tell us about Hippocrates.

Answer 2

was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the father of Western medicine. Hippocrates is credited with being the first person to believe that diseases were caused naturally, not because of superstition and gods. He is given credit for the first description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease. For this reason, clubbed fingers are sometimes referred to as “Hippocratic fingers”
OATH
- I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgment, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them

• In a pure and holy way, I will guard my life and my art and science
• And I will not give a drug that is deadly to anyone if asked, nor will I suggest the way to such a counsel.”
• Fear of the physician-poisoner may be traced very close to the time of the Oath.”
• And likewise I will not give a woman a destructive pessary.”
• “I will not cut, and certainly not those suffering from stone, but I will cede this to men who are practitioners of this activity.”
• About whatever I may see or hear in treatment, or even without treatment, in the life of human beings, I will remain silent, holding such things to be unutterable
• Into as many houses as I may enter, I will go for the benefit of the ill, while being far from all voluntary and destructive injustice, especially from sexual acts both upon women’s bodies and upon men’s.”

-

Question 3

36. Can you tell me about a significant recent advance in medicine or science? Why has this interested you?

Answer 3

…

Question 4

37. What do you consider to be important advances in medicine over the last 50 / 100 years?

Answer 4

…

Question 5

38. Can you tell us about any significant medical stories in the media at the moment?

Answer 5

…

Question 6

39. Tell us about something in the history of medicine that interests you

Answer 6

…

Question 7

40. Have you seen a film or read a book recently that has made you think, and why?

Answer 7

…

Question 8

41. What do you think is the most important medical discovery in the last 100 - 200 years, and why?

Answer 8

…

Question 9

42. If a benefactor offered you a huge amount of money to set up a Medical Research Institute and invited you to become its director, what research area would you choose to look at, and why?

Answer 9

…

Question 10

43. Can you tell us about a book or a film that has influenced you as a person or made you think, and why?

Answer 10

…

Question 11

44. Tell me about someone who has been a major influence on you as a person / in your life?

Answer 11

…

Question 12

45. What do you think was the greatest public health advance of the twentieth century?

Answer 12

…

Question 13

46. Can you describe an interesting place you have been to (not necessarily medical) and explain why it was so?

Answer 13

…

Question 14

47. Do you think putting a man on the moon money well spent? If yes - why? If no - how would you have spent that money?

Answer 14

…

Question 15

48. Tell me about a non-academic project or piece of organisation that you were involved in. How did it go?

Answer 15

…

Question 16

49. If you had to have a gap year, and could go anywhere in the world or do anything, what would you chose to do, and why?

Answer 16

…

Question 17

50. How do you think the rise in information technology has influenced / will influence the practice of medicine?

Answer 17

…

Question 18

51. If you could invite 3 people, alive or dead, to dinner, who would they be?

Answer 18

…