Month: October 2012

• Understanding Risk

  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. This quote from Hamlet has always stuck in my memory; it reminds me to be humble, especially in the face of the unknown. Uncertainty has always been anathema to most of us. We need explanations and we crave stability; anything…

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  October 26, 2012

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  communication, risk assessment, risk communication, Statistics, wellness, women’s health, women’s issues

• Early Morning Musings

  There are times -often early in the morning after just getting to bed and then being awakened again to go to the Operating Room for some emergency, or more commonly, the Case Room for a delivery- when I wonder why I chose the field I did. After all, I could have gone into Pathology where…

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  October 19, 2012

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  medical opinions, pregnancy complications, treatment options, treatment regimes, vexing questions, wellness, women’s health

• Words

  As time harvests the years and winnows my memories, I find I no longer sift through dictionaries looking for new and unusual words. The thrill of finding one is still there I suppose, but more often the discovery is in an interesting book or magazine and it is not so much the originality of the word as the novelty of its use -its evolution. And…

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  October 12, 2012

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  client, Medical words, patient, relationship, women’s health

• How different are we?

  As I get older, it occurs to me with increasing urgency that I do not necessarily inhabit the space that others do. Often I do not have the same beliefs or share the same customs; I value different things, organize my thoughts a different way; I see the world through eyes that have feasted and grown old on…

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  October 6, 2012

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  cultural safety, listening as therapy, women’s health