Collection No. 04

A Working Knowledge

Short guides to things worth knowing well, written by doctors who do.

3 pieces in preparation

From the editors

Doctors are used to knowing a great deal about a narrow thing. These guides go the other way: enough about coffee, clothes, books or tools to choose well and enjoy them more, without making them another field to master.

Each is written by a doctor with a genuine knowledge of the subject, reviewed against its sources, and dated so you know how fresh it is. Nothing is in a guide because someone paid for it to be.

In this collection

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A working knowledge of coffee at home
What matters, what does not, and how to make a good cup before a long day without a new hobby’s worth of equipment.
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A working knowledge of dressing for the ward, and after
Fabrics that survive a shift, fit that looks considered, and why fewer, better things is the economical choice.
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A working knowledge of building a home library
How to read more widely on little time, and keep the books that earn their shelf.

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Collection No. 01

Off Rota

What doctors do with the hours that belong to them.

2 of 5 pieces published

Collection No. 02

The Week, Accounted For

One hundred and sixty-eight hours, as doctors actually spend them.

2 pieces in preparation

Collection No. 03

Uncommon Practice

Doctors whose lives took a shape nobody planned for them.

2 pieces in preparation

The Handover

New pieces, every Sunday.

The Handover brings one considered letter a week, including whatever has been added to A Working Knowledge.

A Working Knowledge

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