musings on women's health

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

  • Timeo tenebris

    There are some things of which we rarely speak; we did, at one time perhaps, but times have changed. Societal norms and cultural permissions have shifted; there are caveats, locked doors, and windows with blinds pulled down for our protection… or somebody’s protection -the people aren’t always named for fear that… for fear that what? […]

    gozzter

    April 13, 2022
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    Aeon.co, anthropology, archeology, booty, captives, Catherine M Cameron, diffusion of knowledge, Kahlil Gibran, slaves, University of Colorado Boulder
  • A bun by any other name

    There’s so much out there, isn’t there? Things that most of us would never bother think much about in a normal day can suddenly come flooding back replete with memories and emotions. The smell of wood smoke can transport me to a little village deep in the Rocky Mountains with its chimneys each colouring in […]

    gozzter

    April 6, 2022
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    Alex Rhys-Taylor, anterior olfactory nucleus, BBC Future, bonding, Cecilia Bembibre, city’s social history, digital screens, Goldsmiths University, Kahlil Gibran, Kate McLean, Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul, Miguel Trancozo Trevino, olfactory sensory neurons, paper books, perfumes, scents, Scents and the City, smell, smellmaps, smells archive, smellscape, UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, UNESCO, urban space
  • The Path to Grandma’s house

    There are many under-appreciated people in our lives, don’t you think? People without whom we might live a very different existence, or inhabit an unfamiliar mind. And, especially, there are those who have not only  affected us, but also those who care for us: our families. I never thought of my grandmother like that, but […]

    gozzter

    March 30, 2022
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    Elizabeth Landau, Grandmother Hypothesis, grandmothers, history, letters, memories, pentimento, Smithsonian Magazine, William Blake
  • What, what, what…?

    Hear this now, O foolish people,Without understanding,Who have eyes and see not,And who have ears and hear not.                                      Jeremiah I would not ordinarily open an essay with a biblical quote, but there can be wisdom in poetry, not to mention melody in sound. It may be hidden, unless it is pointed out -background only. A pentimento […]

    gozzter

    March 23, 2022
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    Aeon.co, Bruno Nettl, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, epiphanies, exposure effect, Jeremiah, music, musicalization, pentimento, repetition, repetition in music, rituals, semantic satiation effect, University of Arkansas, University of Illinois
  • Say not ‘I have found the truth’, but rather ‘I have found a truth’.

    When I was young, I knew everything -and yet nothing, really. Things change; there is no fixed star, and when I look up with autumned eyes, even the world looks different now. But is it really? Is reality so different now from when I was a child, or does an invisible shroud already cloud my […]

    gozzter

    March 16, 2022
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    Aeon.co, Cornell University, Elders, experience, Karl Pillemer, purpose, Wisdom, youth
  • Do I know you from somewhere?

    I’ve never had many close friends, I’m afraid -just a lot of people I nod or wave at. And of those, most of them remain nameless even though I recognize them in their proper contexts. But, devoid of that, the majority remain enigmas that smile at me when I approach; I usually require more finite […]

    gozzter

    March 9, 2022
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    BBC.com Worklife, casual acquaintances, close friends, friends, Ian Leslie, Loren Eiseley, Mark Granovetter, networks, random encounters, Stanford University, trail running, Weak ties
  • They do not love that do not show their love

    Age has taught me much, and yet left too much unexamined. Things that are always there are the hardest to notice -rather than casting shadows, they are the shadows, and offer little detail, answer even fewer questions. It’s true that I can no longer do as much as in my youth. I can no longer […]

    gozzter

    March 2, 2022
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    benefactors, benefits, emotional wellbeing, gratitude, Michal Zechariah, obligations, Psyche.co, sacrifice, Seneca, social nature of gratitude, University of Chicago
  • The soul walks upon all paths

    I suppose I’m coming to it rather late, but I’m beginning to realize I still have a lot to learn; there are some things that I should have figured out by now, others should have been evident from the start. Identity, I think, is one of the obvious ones. After all, who we are matters […]

    gozzter

    February 23, 2022
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    Aeon.co, autistic spectrum, disability, discrimination, equality, identity, Joanne Limburg, just society, opinions, respect, tolerance, University of Cambridge
  • Spero, ergo sum

    I think there is often a lot going on that we would like to change but can’t, a lot that happens which we would rather ignore but don’t; and it’s difficult to know whether the appropriate response should be hope, despair, or… what, anger? Many of the larger problems that confront us are multifaceted, and […]

    gozzter

    February 16, 2022
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    agency, Hope, Invictus, Katie Stockdale, Michael Milona, philosophy, problems, Psyche.co, Ryerson University, toxoplasmosis, University of Victoria
  • You yourself shall keep the key of it

    There are times when I wonder if my father straddled two worlds. He was a learned man, and his knowledge was no doubt hard-earned through books and teachers, but I discovered as a child that there was more to his knowledge than what he had stored in his head. “Answers are lying around everywhere, G,” […]

    gozzter

    February 9, 2022
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    agency, answers, Australia, Australian Aborigines, culture, environment, Flinders University, forests, knowledge, Psyche.co, questions, Stephen Muecke, trails, walks, Wisdom
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