Disease, death and divas. 07.06.20
Welcome to The Plague Pit. For this issue, number 28, I’m delighted to present this excellent article from Dr Craig Goldsack. A fellow anaesthetist, his knowledge of operations is exceeded only by his operatic insights. After thirty-five years as a hospital doctor I realise now that I have lived through the end of what has been termed, without irony, the “Golden Age” of medicine. This epoch, beginning in the middle third of the twentieth century, has been a period of…