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

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  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Eenie Meenie Miney

    I’ll be the first to admit that I have been left far behind in the vocabularic peculiarities that are now used to describe non-normative sexuality. Perhaps it’s Age, but more likely naïveté, that has led to this deficiency rather than lack of exposure. I entered medical school in the mid-sixties when the youth were beginning…

    gozzter

    September 22, 2021
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    anatomic sex, BBC Future, bicameral, cis gendered, conformity, data gaps, gender dysphoria, genders, genetic sex, Kamilla Kamaruddin, lifestyle, medicine, NHS, non-normative sexuality, physiology, sexual assignation, sexuality, transgender, Zaria Gorvett
  • A shoe for your thoughts

    I have often wondered about shoes. Not their styles, or colours, of course -I am indifferent to fashion- but rather about the protection they afford. The benefits they offer. Although I no doubt toddled around the floors barefoot when I was too young to know any better, and even if I nowadays relish the feel…

    gozzter

    September 15, 2021
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    bare feet, feet, Goodwin University, identity, Randy Laist, Shantideva, shoes, socks, soles, technology
  • We came crying hither

    I have to wonder about myself nowadays. I used to be a typical, societally conditioned male who seldom shed tears; I kept my grief tightly wrapped, and only unexpected pain, or major anguish was able to wet the cloth. Nowadays, though, I find myself weeping at the strangest things -and not all of them sad.…

    gozzter

    September 8, 2021
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    crying, Darwin, John Donne, psychoanalytic approach to tears, Queen Mary University of London, tears, Thomas Dixon
  • Rage, rage against the dying of the light

    gozzter

    September 1, 2021
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    Covid pandemic, disease, Invictus, Susan Sontag, Tabitha Moses, The Conversation, the Conversation.com, war metaphors, Wayne State University, William Ernest Henley
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