musingsonwomenshealth.com

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

    • About
  • 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
    Uncategorized
    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
    Uncategorized
    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
    Uncategorized
    abnormal, average, Jonathan Sholl, Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault, normal, pandemic, patterns, Sara Moghaddam-Taaheri, social bubbles, social-distance
  • On crossing a creek on a log

    For some reason, every once in a while I find I am asking myself abstruse questions. I don’t know why that is, nor what I hope to discover, even if I find an answer. One of the more recent additions to my growing list of queries is whether or not things always have to be…

    gozzter

    November 10, 2021
    Uncategorized
    existence, flow of a creek, forest bathing, homo proposito, purpose, Sartre, teleology
  • A probable fiction

    It’s hard to know how to behave nowadays isn’t it? How to know what to do, and under what circumstances; to agree, or disagree -or wandering inside the cloud of political correctness, to waffle. It’s not so much the lack of an opinion, as the fact that with time, or even with different context, the…

    gozzter

    November 3, 2021
    Uncategorized
    Age, arguments, debate, essays, faces, Michel de Montaigne, opinions, Psyche.co, Rachel Ashcroft, sweaters, University of Edinburgh
  • Necessary rituals

    I have been thinking a lot about rituals recently although I don’t belong to any organization that practices them, nor, for that matter, have I been invited to any in the community for a while. At my age, I should no doubt be anticipating more funerals than weddings, but no summonses to either have arrived…

    gozzter

    October 27, 2021
    Uncategorized
    BBC Future, Colin MacLeod, Mind, reading aloud, rituals, Sam Duncan, Sophie Hardach, University College London, University of Waterloo
  • I think, therefore I speak

    Have you ever been overtaken by a thought whose content seems indescribable, at least initially? Perhaps it happens to us all, but we are usually able to gloss over the difficulty and, by trial and error, attempt to describe it nonetheless. I wonder how often the problem in translation even rises to conscious awareness however.…

    gozzter

    October 20, 2021
    Uncategorized
    Beyond Good and Evil, Daniel Dennett, E.M. Forster, Eli Alshanetsky, epiphany, Nature, Nietzsche, spirit, Temple University in Philadelphia, thoughts, translations
  • Scaffolds

    It’s exciting to realize that, despite my age, there are so many things that I have not stopped to think about: the seemingly random encounters with anonymous people in the course of a visit to a store or waiting for a bus downtown; inconsequential interactions with strangers on a sidewalk waiting for the light to…

    gozzter

    October 13, 2021
    Uncategorized
    Age, dogs, hidden webs, masks, pandemic, pandemic fears, patting a dog, random encounters, scaffolds, social distancing, strangers, vaccinations
  • When is Then?

    I am sometimes amazed with the outlook that Age affords. Maybe it was there all along, and I was too busy to give it much attention, or maybe as the years wore thin and the leaves began to fall away, there was a better view of things around me, but whatever the cause, I started…

    gozzter

    October 6, 2021
    Uncategorized
    Age, art, colonization, Fillipo Brunelleschi, Long Now Foundation, now, perspective, Psyche.co, Roman Krznaric, tempus nullius, terra incognita, then, Time, Vanishing point
  • Did you say something?

    There is often a lot more to conversation than meets the ear -hidden things, unstated things- but for some reason, we usually still understand the message. I’d never really thought about this, to tell you the truth, although I was an unwitting acquiescent, I suppose. It’s  easy enough to assume that everything is context driven……

    gozzter

    September 29, 2021
    Uncategorized
    conversation, conversational implicature, conversational maxims, implicature, letters, letters of reference, Maria Kasmirli, Paul Grice, residency training, School of European Education in Heraklion Crete, surgical training, University of Sheffield
Previous Page
1 … 23 24 25 26 27 … 75
Next Page

Blog at WordPress.com.

    • About
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • musingsonwomenshealth.com
    • Join 337 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • musingsonwomenshealth.com
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar