musings on women's health

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

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  • Simple truth miscalled simplicity

    It’s interesting: the older I get, the more I prefer the doing to the done; the learning to the knowledge; the journey to the destination. That’s backwards isn’t it? Counterintuitive. All these years I have been told that the reward is in the prize, not the race… Where have I gone wrong? Even the very […]

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    November 16, 2022
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    education, goals, John Tillson, knowledge, knowledge insertion, learning, Liverpool Hope University, Psyche.co, reminiscence, the Matrix
  • Truth is truth to the end of reckoning

    Truth is an interesting concept don’t you think? In a way, it is an autological word which often prefers to use itself for its own definition: Truth is, well, Truth; it describes what is… Still, there was a time when I thought I understood it as something else -something more…sacred perhaps. But now I’m not […]

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    November 9, 2022
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    accuracy, Aeon.co, Bernard Williams, Brookings Institute, errors, ethics, Fake news, false news, intentions, lies, Richard V Reeves, sincerity, trust, Truth, truthfulness, untruths, Vancouver
  • Adab, more or less

    I’d like to think that I am usually polite; that even if I am unhappy with a turn of events, I can control my words, and arrange my outward face. Of course I’ve lived with myself long enough to know that is not always true. Sometimes I can no more control my emotions than a […]

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    November 2, 2022
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    accountability, Adab, Aeon.co, Cicero, decorum, emotions, etiquette, manners, McGill University, moderation, Rob Goodman, Wisdom
  • Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.

    I have never been a fervent believer in the Divine, but as I have aged, the need for a radical harmonization of apostolic doctrines has become increasingly obvious to me. As for the institutions that act as if they alone have discovered the cosmic truth, I can only say I am reminded of a child’s […]

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    October 26, 2022
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    Abrahamic tradition, Aeon.co, belief, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, God, mind of god, moralistic gods, omniscience, parents, social bonds, University of British Columbia
  • Is memory the warder of the brain?

    I have to be honest, I do not understand the younger generation -well, anymore than it understands me, I suppose. But I recognize that, unlike them, I am not working from a clean slate, and although I have usually tried to think for myself, I am still affected by things past -in fact, I imagine […]

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    October 19, 2022
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    BBC Future, blind spots, Daniel Pauly, generational amnesia, history, memory, paradigm shifts, Peter Kahn, Richard Fisher, Shifting baseline syndrome, Thea Weiss, Thomas Kuhn, trees, University of Washington, windscreen phenomenon, youth
  • Oh world, but that thy strange mutations make us hate thee

    Do you sometimes use words you do not really understand? Words that swirl around you like autumn leaves in the wind; words that come to you as innocent as children, playing; as strangers, lost? Words can be like that: splashing against you by accident then sticking like mud. Sometimes, they are only substitutes for something […]

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    October 12, 2022
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    anger, Emotion Review, Hate, James Stephens, love, Saint Augustine, words
  • What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

    There was a time when I thought that feeling pity for someone was a virtue; it meant feeling discomfort at their situation, I suppose, but perhaps it was also tinged with relief that their situation had not happened to me. And yet was that all I felt? Surely there was some concern and a wish […]

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    October 5, 2022
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    compassion, Gordon Marino, Invictus, Native Son, Nietzsche, Pity, Richard Wright, St. Olaf College, sympathy, The Antichrist, vocabulary, William Ernest Henley, words
  • Speak low if you speak love

    When I was a naïve university student, I read that far from missing out on the thrill of the chase in youth, the elderly are usually liberated from the (presumably) hormonally mediated need for sexual gratification leaving time to evaluate other things. Since procreative duties -or possibilities- would no longer loom large in their thinking, […]

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    September 28, 2022
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    Age, friendship, gay, gender object choice, heteronormative, hugs, identity, intimacy, Jana Byers, love, normal, retirement, sexual attraction, sexual identity, touching
  • Thou hast slept well. Awake!

    Do you ever wonder what happens when you wake up in the morning? Not after you’ve woken up, but the act of transitioning between absence and presence? When you become you again? If awakening is an awareness of you, then where was this you when you weren’t? Consciousness is a curious issue: a type of […]

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    September 21, 2022
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    Aristotle, awareness, Bowling Green State University, cognoscente, communication, compromise, consciousness, dialogical reasoning, Hrishikesh Joshi, human, knowledge, philosophy, Psyche.co, reason, social reasoning, solitary thinker
  • It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with

    I only knew my grandfather when he was very old, but I was also very young then so most people seemed old to me at the time. He had been a carpenter in England before he emigrated to Canada with his young bride as the years turned into the twentieth century. After a long journey […]

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    September 14, 2022
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    Aboriginal elders, Australian podcasts, Bluebeard's door, carpentry, dadirri, deep listening, Dr. Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, hearing, Meredith Lake, Soul Search, trees, wood
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