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Ronald W Dworkin

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

Ronald W Dworkin, MD, PhD practised anaesthesiology in a large medical centre for 30 years. He is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, United States. His other writings can be found at RonaldWDworkin.com.

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Surgeons in blue attire performing an operation in a theatre, with medical tools visible.

essayBioethics

Savage care

Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of hospital life

Ronald W Dworkin

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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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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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

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