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Reflections on 40 years as a doctor in Women's Health

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  • Who has heard the seasons pass?

    Is absence the same as presence? Is it simply the opposite end of a spectrum in which both have identifiable, if different, properties? If something isn’t there, we don’t see it, and although we can maybe imagine it, that’s not really seeing it, is it? Surely the presence of something exists in a different Magisterium…

    gozzter

    April 17, 2024
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    absence, hearing, holes, listening, silence, Sound
  • To be, or not…

    Perhaps it’s my increasingly autumnal years, but lately I’ve begun to wonder about what extinction really means. Not so much my own, you understand -although that will happen soon enough- but ours. All of us… Extinction has certainly happened before of course. I mean, the Neanderthals went extinct, the Dodos went extinct, the wooly mammoths…

    gozzter

    April 10, 2024
    Uncategorized
    agency, care facilities, Dementia, extinction, identity, John Donne, mental health
  • The Hungry Field

    I saw it Twitching In the tall grass Behind the house. Camouflaged And hidden Until it moved, It was a weed Amongst weeds, Just another stalk Trembling In a wind That wasn’t. And then Another shadow Surfaced, Although It seemed to point The other way At first, Until it slipped Like an errant fin Beneath…

    gozzter

    April 3, 2024
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  • Is this a smile which I see before me?

    There are few things that make me feel as welcome as a smile; in whatever country I’ve travelled, and into whichever city I’ve ventured, it has always seemed a welcome guide to my reception. Of course I realize a smile has as many faces as a clown; one has to be careful about its meaning,…

    gozzter

    March 27, 2024
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    Colin Jones, dentistry, history of smiles, Queen Mary University of London, reflections, smiles
  • To be, or not to be, is that the question…?

    ‘To be, or not to be…’ The timeless soliloquy by Shakespeare’s Hamlet still provokes a shiver. I don’t hear it as much now that I’m retired from my Obstetrical practice and contraception (or pregnancy termination) is so readily available; it occasionally surfaces from time to time in my social interactions, however. The problem is often…

    gozzter

    March 20, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Anti-natalism, Life, procreation
  • The last refuge of the unimaginative

    I’m not sure where I fit on the psychological spectrum -somewhere in the middle, probably- but I think I would prefer to be on the edge somewhere… Not too close to a cliff, or anything, but far enough away that I can actually see the sky, and feel the wind. Liminality is a state of…

    gozzter

    March 12, 2024
    Uncategorized
    alienation, clubs, Invictus, on the spectrum, paradigm shift, The Outsider
  • Oh for a Muse of fire

    I have begun to wonder whether the creative Muse as we have known her is entering a phase of terminal cognitive decline or is just in the process of changing her clothes -trying on a different wardrobe because she sees new possibilities in the styles hanging in a stranger’s closet to which she’d never had…

    gozzter

    March 5, 2024
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    art, artificial intelligence, Muse, pictures, Quaerimonia, soul, stories, writing
  • Does Pain pay the income of each precious thing?

    Why is pain? Even after all these years, I am still confused. It is true that I have likely lived on the periphery of its delivery route; pain has not been a constant companion but, rather, an occasional acquaintance rattling the gate: an unexpected guest who seldom apologizes for their inconvenient arrival and usually prevents…

    gozzter

    February 28, 2024
    Uncategorized
    art, duality of pain, Edvard Munch, Pain, Rob Boddice, Tampere University
  • Rings and things and fine array

    I realize I might be at the wrong end of life to be curious about this; I recognize that even the very existence of my inquisitiveness may attract the attention of those prying ears which are constantly on the prowl for gossip, but I can assure any who have stopped to listen that they are…

    gozzter

    February 21, 2024
    Uncategorized
    fingers, Gimmel ring, memories, puzzle rings, ring finger, Vena Amoris, wedding rings
  • Tales told by idiots?

    I am as much a part of Nature as Nature is a part of me, but each of us plays a different role depending upon the script I think. And yet, although Macbeth thought that each of us was but a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, the player does…

    gozzter

    February 14, 2024
    Uncategorized
    animal trials, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, ethics, intent, Justice, laws, Michel Foucault, Nature, trials
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