On a recent routine sweep of my film and tv show streaming platforms, I came across the series the Imperial Coroner. With my first rotation of residency being autopsy, I viewed the moment as propitious to watch a fictionalized account of my predecessors. While containing many of the classics of the period romance genre, it […]
Medicine in Media: Downton Abbey
The celebrated series, Downton Abbey, presents a vision of the twilight era of a system in which one’s social and moral value was framed by an unwavering and internalized awareness and acceptance of one’s societal role. Early in its course, we see how these factors come to influence medicine by determining the perception of patients and […]
