Ronald W Dworkin

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

Ronald W Dworkin is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, United States. His most recent book is Medical Catastrophe: Confessions of an Anesthesiologist (2017). He lives in Maryland, US.

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Photo of two surgeons in blue scrubs and masks focused on a procedure, with one surgeon’s glasses reflecting the surgery.

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Medicine

When I lost my intuition

For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t

Ronald W Dworkin

A team of surgeons in blue scrubs and surgical caps operate under bright surgical lights in an operating theatre. Medical instruments and equipment are arranged on tables around them, while one team member adjusts another’s mask. Shelves in the background hold medical supplies.

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Medicine

Last hours of an organ donor

In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is an urgent tenderness to medical care

Ronald W Dworkin