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

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  • 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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    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
  • To see ourselves as others see us

    Is it possible to peek over the blanket under which my culture has tucked me? Is it really possible to experience the world the same as others not similarly wrapped? I had once thought it was; now I am not so sure. The pull of circumstance is just too strong, and we are how we…

    gozzter

    February 2, 2022
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    care-givers, cultural biases, culture, Gombe National Park, insight, Kasekela chimpanzee community, Maria Botero, mothers, Psyche.co, Sam Houston State University, social cognition, touch
  • We have done but greenly

    When I was younger and just beginning to realize that there were many mysteries left unsolved in the world, I came across a story about the Sargasso Sea. It was a huge area of floating seaweed near Bermuda that was said entrap unwary sailing ships that wandered into it for eternity should they be becalmed.…

    gozzter

    January 26, 2022
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    Amazon rainforest, BBC Future, great Atlantic sargassum belt, Horse Latitudes, hydrogen sulphide, Isabelle Gerretsen, Mexican beaches, Mike Allen, San Pedro Sun, Sargasso Sea, sargassum, seaweed, the Bermudian, the TC Palm, University of Exeter
  • A sorry sight?

    I am fascinated by liminality, intrigued by areas that exist on the edge of things, or in the space between them. I’m not sure when it all started, or why it has had such a hold on my imagination -but there you have it. Not everything has an owner, or for that matter even a…

    gozzter

    January 19, 2022
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    boundaries, collectivism, edges, Gunter Nitschke, Haiku, Kyoto Journal, liminality, ma, Matsuo Basho, philosophy, spaces, things
  • It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

    I sometimes wonder what forgiveness actually means. But when I acknowledge my uncertainty, it sounds rather insensitive -stupid, almost. Forgiveness suggests -what?- indulgence, tolerance of a perceived or actual transgression. Leniency if not absolution. Often it also suggests, or expects, some sort of reciprocal reaction from the object of the largesse as well. It can…

    gozzter

    January 12, 2022
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    apologies, BBC Future series, cognitive dissonance, collectivistic cultures, decisional forgiveness, emotional forgiveness, forgiveness, guilt, Mark Twain, REACH intervention, social harmony, virtue signalling, William Park
  • And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts

    Don’t you think there is something magical about our senses? I mean, that something out there transmutes into something in here? And it doesn’t just enter our heads somehow, but becomes laden with meaning as well. Emotion. Rough becomes more than an irregular surface and suddenly acquires warmth and texture -even emotion perhaps- if it…

    gozzter

    January 5, 2022
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    Chris Woolgar, culture, Evil Eye, medieval thinking, Middle Ages, perception, senses, speech, University of Southampton
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