Medical Ethics

Let’s talk about death and dying

Medical school coursework includes teaching Western medicine’s standard ethical principle including discussions about patients’ rights, but what is not talked about is what death…

Heidi Matisonn

7 min read

What’s ketamine all about? Bhekisisa recently spoke with Bavi Vythilingum, a member of the South African Society of Psychiatrists, who helped write the guidelines for ketamine use to understand more about the drug and how it works. (Wikimedia)

ANAESTHETICS

18 JUN 2025

Elon Musk, depression and South Africa’s cowboy ketamine clinics

Ketamine has been used for decades as an anaesthetic drug, but in the past few years, more and more psychiatrists have been using it for hard-to-treat depression

Bhekisisa Team

9 min read