In preparation
Taste
What doctors read, wear, use and enjoy.
Taste has little to do with price. It is the habit of noticing what is good, from a novel to a well-cut shirt to an app that gives you an hour back. We review things on their merits, say plainly when a link earns us money, and never mistake expense for quality.
Style
Dressing for the ward, and for everything after it.
Culture
Books, music, film and the arts, for busy minds.
Technology
The tools you live with, judged on the time they save.
In taste
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In preparation · Culture
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.
In preparation · Style
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.
In preparation · Culture
A working knowledge of building a home library
How to read more widely on little time, and keep the books that earn their shelf.
In preparation · Technology
The apps that give doctors time back
Tested over a month of real rotas. Judged on one question: did it return more time than it took?
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Collection No. 04
A Working Knowledge
Short guides to things worth knowing well, written by doctors who do.
3 pieces in preparation
Elsewhere in Life
- Time and energy
The hours that are yours, and the attention you bring to them.
- Relationships
Love, friendship and family, on a schedule that rarely cooperates.
- Health
Looking after the body and mind that do the work.
- Places
Where doctors travel, live and put down roots.
- Identity
Who you are when you are not being a doctor.
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The Handover
A richer life, every Sunday.
One considered letter a week, with the best of the Life desk alongside everything else worth a doctor’s time.