Le numéro de Private Passions du 10 juin 2018 recevait le médecin controversé Richard Smith pour un portrait musical et un exposé de ses convictions sur la médecine en général et sur l'approche de la mort par le corps médical et le malade, en particulier.
Choix très personnels (uniquement des pièces lentes et de la clarinette, instrument pratiqué par Richard Smith), entre autres l'émouvant premier mouvement du 16e quatuor de Chostakovitch (Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet no. 15 in E flat minor (1st mvt: Elegy Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet)) et le morceau de clarinette solo du 2e mouvement du Quatuor pour la fin du temps d'Olivier Messiaen (Quartet for the End of Time (2nd mvt: Abyss of the birds) Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence).
Pour en savoir plus : In Private Passions, Richard Smith tells Michael Berkeley about his strong belief that doctors and patients collude to hide the truth about disease and death, and explains why he gives a talk called provocatively: 'Death: the Upside'. He reveals too how music has sustained him at crisis points in his life.
Dr Richard Smith heads an organisation called Patients Know Best, and having been editor of the British Medical Journal for most of his career, he now enjoys stirring things up in a provocative weekly blog there. Among his targets: the sinister power of drug companies - and the not unrelated tendency of doctors to over-treat illnesses like cancer. When he's not stirring things up at home, Richard Smith is in Bangladesh, working for a charity trying to prevent the terrible human loss caused by infected drinking water. He has also worked as a television doctor and at one point answered readers' letters for Women's Realm.
Choices include Bach's cello suites, the Stan Tracey Quartet, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Haydn, Deborah Pritchard, and sacred music by the medieval composer Hermannus Contractus".
Choix très personnels (uniquement des pièces lentes et de la clarinette, instrument pratiqué par Richard Smith), entre autres l'émouvant premier mouvement du 16e quatuor de Chostakovitch (Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet no. 15 in E flat minor (1st mvt: Elegy Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet)) et le morceau de clarinette solo du 2e mouvement du Quatuor pour la fin du temps d'Olivier Messiaen (Quartet for the End of Time (2nd mvt: Abyss of the birds) Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence).
Pour en savoir plus : In Private Passions, Richard Smith tells Michael Berkeley about his strong belief that doctors and patients collude to hide the truth about disease and death, and explains why he gives a talk called provocatively: 'Death: the Upside'. He reveals too how music has sustained him at crisis points in his life.
Dr Richard Smith heads an organisation called Patients Know Best, and having been editor of the British Medical Journal for most of his career, he now enjoys stirring things up in a provocative weekly blog there. Among his targets: the sinister power of drug companies - and the not unrelated tendency of doctors to over-treat illnesses like cancer. When he's not stirring things up at home, Richard Smith is in Bangladesh, working for a charity trying to prevent the terrible human loss caused by infected drinking water. He has also worked as a television doctor and at one point answered readers' letters for Women's Realm.
Choices include Bach's cello suites, the Stan Tracey Quartet, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Haydn, Deborah Pritchard, and sacred music by the medieval composer Hermannus Contractus".