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

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  • 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
  • What do you mean?

    What do we mean by meaning? Whoaa. I love questions like that: an autological wrestling match, perhaps, and yet an important one, I think. Does everything have meaning, or does that happen only when there is an intention that it should? Meaning, after all, is not necessarily inherent in everything -a rock lying on the…

    gozzter

    December 29, 2021
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    archaeology, artifacts, communicative intention, history, HP Grice, information, intention, Marilynn Johnson, meaning, midden, natural meaning, non-natural meaning, philosophy of archaeology, philosophy of language, Psyche.co, relationships, stratigraphy, University of San Diego
  • Your friend is your needs answered

    I don’t know where I’ve been all these years; I’d never heard of Ubuntu. I suppose none of us can know everything, of course, but Ubuntu is important -how could I have missed it? It’s message is as simple as it is profound: ‘I am, because you are’. In other words, I have become who…

    gozzter

    December 22, 2021
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    African philosophy, being, ena, Jack and the Beanstalk, James Ugude, John Donne, Mikhail Bakhtin, René Descartes, self/other, selfhood, solitary confinement, Ubuntu, University College Dublin, University of Pretoria, Western Philosophy
  • I do desire we may be better strangers

    I have a friend who is wary of talking to strangers. I suppose it is common enough -depending on circumstance and location, it might very well be a prudent thing to feel- and yet it seems to expose a gap in our society. A hole in an awkward area of our clothing we would rather…

    gozzter

    December 15, 2021
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    anti-social paradox, BBC Future, BBC World Service, commuters, Covid 19, Emily Kasriel, Loneliness, Nick Epley, strangers, TED Talk, Theory of Mind, University of Chicago
  • Does light, seeking light, the light of light beguile?

    Is the sense of control of one’s life, of one’s surroundings, of oneself, merely an addendum tacked on to the accumulating years that follow maturity? A garb one wraps around oneself to adapt more successfully to the role assigned -a costume meant only for the play? Or is it really the emperor’s clothes, borrowed and…

    gozzter

    December 8, 2021
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    agency, Daniel Dennett, identity, intelligence, Kahlil Gibran, Michael Levin, persona, personalities, taxonomic levels, teleology, Theory of Mind, Tufts University
  • Opinion crowns with an imperial voice

    I suspect that most of us, at one time or another, have been tempted to paste our own views over those with which we disagree. Sometimes we might even feel it is not only our duty to correct the opinions but also the  people spreading their mistaken beliefs and set them straight. Religious zealots might…

    gozzter

    December 1, 2021
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    arguments, conclusions, Gay culture, gender fluid, opinion, sex chromosomes, the Emperor’s New Clothes, Truth
  • Give me a staff of honour for mine age

    It’s interesting how we can find ourselves immersed in Time, isn’t it? We ride in it as if we were on a bus, looking out of the windows at the world going by. We are all on a journey I suppose, but some of us at different speeds and from different locations. Well, at least…

    gozzter

    November 22, 2021
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    Age, Ageism, empathy, masks, othering, pandemic, public transit, Time
  • All hoods make not monks

    Don’t you sometimes wonder what normal is? I mean is it ‘fitting in’ -being ‘average’- or is it  simply not being subject to undue attention in a supermarket checkout line? And even if you don’t ‘fit in’, suppose everybody in your family also looks like you? Does that make the whole family abnormal, or just,…

    gozzter

    November 17, 2021
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    abnormal, average, Jonathan Sholl, Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault, normal, pandemic, patterns, Sara Moghaddam-Taaheri, social bubbles, social-distance
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