Month: December 2015

• A Pink Elephant in the Room?

  You could see her waiting in the wings, peeking around the curtain, anxious for her debut on the public stage. And what a buildup; the opening acts pretty well guaranteed her a receptive audience -one that would assume that anything less than a full symphonic orchestral introduction and a dais at centre stage would be…

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  December 30, 2015

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  acquired generalized hypoactive sexual desire disorder, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Critical Thinking, erectile dysfunction, evidence-based medicine, FDA, female sexual dysfunction, flibanserin, Health Canada, hypoactive sexual desire, pink Viagra, sexual dyspfunction

• An Unfamiliar Worry (for some)

  I don’t know how the world used to manage with just men at the helm. There are so many things –obvious things- that simply pass by us uncharted. I don’t think its intentional; it’s more likely that those things just do not affect us in the same way. They have different consequences; we assign them…

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  December 16, 2015

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  Amy Peake, BBC news, cultural sensitivity, culture, food and shelter, gender boundaries, Iago, incontinence pads, Lenin, menses, menstrual pads, menstrual stigma, menstrual taboos, Othello, Refugee camps, refugees, resettlement of refugees, sanitary pads, Shakespeare, women’s needs, Zaatari camp in Jordan

• The Most Unkindest Cut of All

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… I’m a surgeon, so for me, the operating room has always been a haven of sorts. It’s one of the few places where I feel safe from interference from out there. Where, for a brief but immeasurable time, there is no outside –no politics, no…

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  December 9, 2015

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  BBC news, Brigadoon, classical music, Confirmation bias, Henry IV, Journal of Anaesthesiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Macbeth, music, Music in the operating room, Shakespeare, surgical distractions, survey, tempo, volume