Counting Our Blessings

The latest installment of Dalrymple’s weekly British Medical Journal column is now online:


“It is an old adage that we should count our blessings, and it is an equally ancient failing of human beings that they should fail to do so. For we are as much problem seeking as problem solving creatures, and we soon feel wretched if we have nothing to complain about.”


Read the full column


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