Richard Colgan, MD

Has the Art of Medicine Been Forgotten?
12/20/2011
Richard Colgan, MD
<div class="column"><p><span>Medical </span><span>education is critically important to the evolution of medicine as a whole. The physician’s education is ongoing...
12/20/2011
Primary Care
Primary Care
Imhotep: The Physician/Architect Who Led Us From Magic to Medicine
09/11/2012
Richard Colgan, MD
We must look at many historical figures & in order to better understand what & it means to be a healer and how to best practice the art of caring. Sir William Osler recommended that we “must come to the...
09/11/2012
chinese medicine
chinese medicine
Advice to the Healer: Plant Apricots
10/26/2012
Richard Colgan, MD
<p>Chinese medicine can proudly point to the lives of the Three Divine Doctors of Jian An as being exemplary in showing care for others. From the perspective of Dr Marta Hanson, Professor of...
10/26/2012
Primary Care
Primary Care
F.N.–The Lady With the Lamp
01/15/2013
Deborah Ann Colgan, RN, BSN; Richard Colgan, MD
<p><img alt="florence nightingale" height="90" src="/sites/default/files/1301Con_GCColgan_FNPic.jpg" style="float:left" title="florence...
01/15/2013
Primary Care
Primary Care
F.N.–The Lady With the Lamp
01/15/2013
Deborah Ann Colgan, RN, BSN; Richard Colgan, MD
<p><img alt="florence nightingale" height="90" src="/sites/default/files/1301Con_GCColgan_FNPic.jpg" style="float:left" title="florence...
01/15/2013
Moses Maimonides: A Luminary From the Dark Ages of Medicine
07/17/2013
Richard Colgan, MD
Moses Maimonides was perhaps the most famous Jewish physician in medieval times.
07/17/2013
Primary Care
Primary Care
Aequanimaty and Imperturbability
09/17/2013
Richard Colgan, MD
Canadian medical educator Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is, in my opinion, one of the most influential English-speaking physicians in the history of Western medicine.
09/17/2013
The Inspirational Teacher
10/10/2013
Richard Colgan, MD
An excellent read on the life of Sir William Osler can be found in Charles S Bryan’s Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician.1 Here are some important take-home messages:
10/10/2013
Primary Care
Primary Care
Life Lessons from Albert Schweitzer
02/18/2014
Richard Colgan, MD
Having determined to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, Schweitzer began the study of medicine at the University of Strasbourg in 1905.
02/18/2014
Primary Care
Primary Care
The Physician as a Public Health Leader
06/12/2014
Richard Colgan, MD
Practicing excellence in the art of caring by attempting to master the clinician–patient relationship evokes an image of a one-to-one interaction between the healer and his or her patient.
06/12/2014