Month: September 2014

• A Medical Dilemma

  Here’s an outrageous assertion: there are some things that we just cannot control. Worse, sometimes they are undefineable – or at least so vague as to defy placing them on some scale or other. Ranking them in terms of importance either to us, or to others. Naming them for future reference. And if we cannot […]

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  September 25, 2014

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  anticoagulation, belly button surgery, blood thinners, fibroids, indications for surgery, laparoscopy, medical decisions, medical dilemma, myomectomy, pulmonary embolism, Revisionism, Things we cannot control, treatment of fibroids, tumor markers, ultrasound

• The Cleanse

  Sometimes, if I have the chance, I like to review the list of referral letters before I see any patients for the day. It tells me what to expect; how to allocate the time for the consultations; whether any of them might be particularly interesting. Surprises happen. The other day, one letter about a patient caught my attention. […]

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  September 18, 2014

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  Chronic yeast infection, Cleanse, Colon Cleanse, Confirmation bias, correlation does not equal causation, fecal microbiome, medical journals, medical treatments, patients, referral letters, Spurious Correlations, toxins

• Another Advantage of Breast Feeding?

  As Mark Twain observed: What a good thing Adam had- when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. I don’t know about you, but I am getting tired of the media reporting on studies that contain nothing new and passing them off as fresh and enlightening. Even more upsetting is the fact […]

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  September 11, 2014

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  advantages of breast feeding, attitudes to breast feeding, breast feeding studies, depression, Medical information, news, Postpartum depression, relevance of studies, risk of post partum depression

• Aboriginal Women Deserve a Public Inquiry.

  We Canadians have always been proud of ourselves; we are a democratic society ruled by the will of the people. We vote and the majority governs, represents our interests, and crafts the laws accordingly -or does it? We have a say in what happens in our several levels of government –a voice in what is done to […]

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  September 4, 2014

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  Aboriginal women, conversations, cultural safety, dialogue, First Nations women, minority rights, Missing and murdered aboriginal women, Public inquiry, RCMP Task Force, Relational autonomy, Royal Commission on Aboriginal People