Dr Ronan Kavanagh
Preparing for dotMD
Co-founder and Director of dotMD Dr Ronan Kavanagh explains what was involved in choosing speakers for this year’s conference Described as the ‘Electric Festival of Medical Conferences’, dotMD is the annual award-winning Festival of Medical Curiosity for doctors. It explores the spaces between medicine, the arts and culture and sells out every year. The ideas…
Read MoreOnline education versus real learning
Today’s medical students might have 24/7 access to information online but patients are not ‘virtual beings’, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh
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Dr Ronan Kavanagh on why a simple introduction is so important, yet is largely missing in healthcare services
Read MoreGetting in tune with change
Dr Ronan Kavanagh on what medicine can learn from music
Read MoreA doctor on the dry
There is some wisdom in the old adage that ‘your alcohol intake is okay, as long as you’re not drinking more than your doctor’, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh
Read MoreThe God delusion
A life in medicine marks us out as different from early on, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh
Read More‘Tis the season to be reading — medical style
Dr Ronan Kavanagh shares his favourite medicine-related books of the year
Read MoreSolving the medical riddle of ‘The Doctor Paradox’
Dr Ronan Kavanagh speaks to the doctor behind a popular new podcast which focuses on medical matters
Read MoreJazz and the art of medicine
Medicine, it seems, has more in common with Jazz than you might think, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh
Read MoreHave you done something with your hair?
In an age where cosmetic surgery is so widespread, there is no map to help guide us through that tricky first meeting with a surgically enhanced friend or colleague, writes Dr Ronan Kavanagh
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