Month: July 2012

• The surgical option

  I’m not opposed to the surgical option, it’s just that there are many roads to Rome, and sometimes an indirect route is more satisfying. Don’t misunderstand; I’m an Ob/Gyn surgeon. It’s what I do, but not to the exclusion of everything else. There are times when surgery is necessary, life-saving, difficult to avoid. There are few […]

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  July 27, 2012

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  fibroids, illness, medical options, surgery, surgical options, treatment options, women’s health

• Words and Names

  Words are important, let’s face it; they help us address those most existential of all entities: concepts. They describe things, modify things, name things. Without them, we’d no doubt be reduced to gestures -limited descriptors at best. The richness that is reality would still be there, but unexpressed, identified perhaps, but somehow unrepresented. To an extent then, […]

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  July 20, 2012

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  complications of labour, expectations, Labour, names, pregnancy, pregnancy complications, women’s health, words

• Victim

  One of the things about illness is that it seems unfair -especially if it involves pain or limitation. To some degree, I suspect we all give in to self-pity in the throes of the process; maybe it’s a coping mechanism: a world view that allows us center stage for a while, an excuse to treat ourselves […]

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  July 13, 2012

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  chronic pain, health, medicine, treatment regimes, vexing questions, victims, women’s health

• Out of Control

  Are any of us in control? Or is the concept merely one that flatters us, plays to our sense of place in the vast and chaotic events that engulf us? Are we, for example, truly in control when we get in a car and drive off? We don’t plan accidents, but they happen. We don’t […]

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  July 7, 2012

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  control issues, medicine, pregnancy, women’s health