Miscellaneous topics

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Hand washing

Semmelweis’s struggle for a hand-wash

Humanism

Selfless service in faraway lands: humanism in healthcare

Compassion

Compassion in healthcare and its imagery in postage stamps

Family Planning

Population almost a billion and a half, and counting

Museum

One stamp story: Is history of medicine in need of a museum ?

Statistics

Count, analyse and interpret: Data for health

Road Safety

How to make our roads healthy and safe ?

Symbol health

Slithering serpents and health-care

Journals

Medical books and journals in postal stamps

Hiding Disability

A mirror of the past and our wall of shame

Disability Empowerment

Empowering people with a disability

Disability acceptance

Coming out of the disability closet

Flowers in Health

Flowers in health care and its philately

Mouth painting

Mouth and foot painting: A special ability in postage stamps

Organ donation

Donate a healthy organ to mend another’s failed one

Polio Brace

A familiar orthoses from the past: Leather and metal polio-brace

Bandage

Bandage: A cloth cover to wrap, hold or press

Drowning

Anyone can drown, no one should

Doctors and Facial Hair

Why did doctors shed their facial hair

Doctors and Beards

About flowing beards, wisdom and medical men

Einstein’s surgery

Einstein gets operated and Nissen is his surgeon

First stamp

The first postage stamp was born on 1st May 1840

Money gone

When money was no longer there…

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