Tag: doctors

• The Grief that does not Speak

  How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Like Hamlet, we all recognize this mood: the black dog lying in the noonday sun, the cloud that even hides the moon. It is the tear that defeats the wavering smile –and yet… And yet, there is often something more […]

  gozzter

  November 23, 2016

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  abuse, Antidepressant medication, depression, doctors, GP, Gynaecology, Hamlet, Khalil Gibran, lens of depression, listening, sadness, Shakespeare, talking, the black dog

• The Medical Student

  She was not old for a medical student I suppose, although her face spoke of experience far beyond her years. But how do you measure age in a profession that cherishes the wisdom and equanimity that so often accompany Time’s passage? No, she was not old, but nor did she possess the naïveté that so […]

  gozzter

  May 13, 2015

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  autonomy, choice, communication, contraception, counselling, cultural differences, cultural safety, doctor trust, doctor-patient relationship, doctor/patient communication, doctors, dogma, Gynaecology, Medical student

• The Wisdom of Experience

  Sometimes, I feel like a fake. I suppose the ability to see oneself from various angles is a gift of age, but I rather enjoyed myself more when I was sure of who I was –or at least didn’t trouble myself with the question. And yet, to dig for the core is to taste the […]

  gozzter

  May 30, 2014

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  Age, alternative therapies, doctors, experience, listening, menopause, menopause treatments, Wisdom

• The Doula

  For some reason, there are opposing sides in this issue and it’s hard even to approach the topic without raising the eyebrows of one side or the other. It’s not at all clear to me why there should have to be this division, but I’ll attempt a dispassionate consideration of the concept and then venture an opinion for […]

  gozzter

  September 7, 2012

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  complications of labour, doctors, Doula, Labour, management of labour, medical model, Medicine. Nurses, Obstetrics, support in labour

• Health

  Do we expect too much Health? Or perhaps less controversially, do we expect too much of Health? Are our expectations realistic or even attainable? Do we really know what Health is -or for that matter, is not? It’s an important point and one that should not be dismissed as mere academic quibbling. Perhaps, to paraphrase St. […]

  gozzter

  August 4, 2012

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  doctors, expectations, health, illness, medicine, philosophy, wellness, Women’s helth