musings on women's health

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

  • 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 […]

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    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 […]

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    December 22, 2021
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    Abeba Birhane, Aeon.co, 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 […]

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    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 […]

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    December 8, 2021
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    Aeon.co, 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 […]

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    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 […]

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    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, […]

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    November 17, 2021
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    Aarhus University in Denmark, abnormal, Aeon.co, 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 […]

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    November 10, 2021
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    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 […]

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    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 […]

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    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
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