Month: October 2014

• Uterine Transplants

  I just knew it was going to happen; I could feel it in the air: a live and healthy baby delivered from a transplanted uterus. It was the womb’s turn. After all, people have been trying to transplant stuff since anatomy began. Unfortunately, before the concepts of physiology, infection and immune rejection were appreciated, they […]

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  October 29, 2014

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  azathioprine, Cassandra, corticosteroids, cryopreserved embryo, Dr. Christian Barnard, Dr. Mats Brannstrom, immunosuppressants, medical ethics, pregnancy, tacrolimus, Uterine transplants

• FHR: Fetal Heart Rap

  When I was a child, I was fascinated with noise. Well, perhaps sounds would better describe what interested me. What were they –I mean really? And what happened to them after I heard them? When I was finished listening and if there was nobody else around to use them, what occurred then? Sounds told us stuff –information- […]

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  October 22, 2014

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  Fetal heart rate, FHR, heart sounds, information, library, music, Noise, Rap, recording sound, Sound, Sound Bites, sound library

• Medicine and Ideology

  Some things are more definitive than others –less ambiguous, more predictable. Reliable, in other words. They lend themselves to yes-no answers, right-wrong judgements, good-bad characteristics. And some people prefer to see the world in black and white like this. Uncertainty is uncomfortable for them; they crave cognitive closure in the opinion of Arie Kruglanski, a […]

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  October 15, 2014

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  abortion, Arie Kruglanski, Canadian Medical Association Journal, cognitive closure, dogma, Ideology, medicine, politics, pregnancy termination, Relational autonomy, State laws, transition, ultrasound

• The Crown Jewel

    Ahh, those were the days! The days when naivete reigned. The once-upon-a-times when my practice was young and everyone around me seemed old. They spoke a language I had not anticipated in my training; they seem to have subscribed to different dictionaries, or the words were smudged so they did their best with what […]

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  October 8, 2014

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  belly button, belly dance, crown jewels, danse du ventre, endometriosis, incision, language, laparoscopy, lower quadrant pain, medical practice, monthlies, navel, Pain, parts, pelvic pain, vocabulary

• Critical Thinking and Bullying

  A few weeks ago, a young woman came in to see me to have her first Pap smear. While I was taking a routine sexual history, she admitted she had recently been bullied online. I’m not even sure how the topic came up, but she didn’t seem very upset, so I asked her about it. “The guy was a real […]

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  October 2, 2014

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  analysing the message, bullying, Carl Popper, causal chains, Confirmation bias, Critical Thinking, deconstructing, deductive reasoning, distancing oneself, falsifiability, inductive reasoning, judging, logic, magical thinking, Pap smear, questioning, Science, Scientific method, Scientific thinking, self esteem, validity, victimization