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Out of Control
Are any of us in control? Or is the concept merely one that flatters us, plays to our sense of place in the vast and chaotic events that engulf us? Are we, for example, truly in control when we get in a car and drive off? We don’t plan accidents, but they happen. We don’t…
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Ovarian cysts: part one
“I have pain, don’t you understand? It’s on the right side where the cyst is!” She spit the word out like it had a bad taste. For her it very likely did. I’d never seen her before, but the family doctor had sent an old ultrasound -done a year ago- along with his consult request…
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Over thirty-five years of listening and helping, but still not an expert
There’s one thing I have to confess at the start: I am not an expert on women. I do not inhabit a female body, nor, apart from what is in the sample cupboard, do I have special access to estrogen and its secrets. Although I’ve delivered thousands of babies, I cannot honestly say that I…
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