Month: February 2015

• Vehicular Obstetrics

  Here I am in New Zealand, land of narrow roads, one lane bridges, and at least for us North Americans, the necessity of switching our cultural allegiance from the right to the left hand side of the road. Personally, my greatest struggle is remembering to get into the car through the correct door. Everything seems…

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  February 25, 2015

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  Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canadian study, car accidents in pregnancy, CMAJ, Driving in Pregnancy, motor vehicle crash, New Zealand, obstetrical advice, pregnancy, pregnancy risks, second trimester, second trimester of pregnancy

• You Got Me Pregnant!

  Some things seem to go unappreciated don’t they? They’re background noise. Shadows in the moonlight. You might think that this doesn’t apply to medicine, but it does. Much of what we do is taken for granted –or at least taken for expected… appreciated, but for a variety of reasons, not publically acknowledged. And that’s fine…

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  February 18, 2015

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  accouchement, appreciation, forgetting faces, infertility, l’accouchement, Medical School, memory, pasts, restaurant protocols

• Autism and Obstetrics

  I’m an obstetrician caring for worried mothers. They’re worried about things that might put their developing foetuses at risk for a whole range of issues and ask me for advice. Obviously I’m neither a paediatrician nor a child psychologist, so questions about autism leave me alone in troubled waters. There are so many rumours of…

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  February 11, 2015

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  ASD, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, criteria boundaries, DSM-5 criteria, Julius Caesar, neurodevelopmental disorder, pollution, sensitivity, serpent’s egg, Shakespeare, social communication, specificity

• The Unexpected

  What I like about the unexpected is that you never expect it. It’s a surprise. A gift. And the world is filled with this stuff. Each day at work –I’m a gynaecologist- there are little treasures hidden within appointments, presents in names. Especially the unpronounceable Persian names that unravel when I try to work at…

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  February 4, 2015

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  cross culture, endometriosis, laparoscope, movie star, names, ovarian cyst, Pain, pelvic pain, scars, surprises, unexpected gift