Tag: endometrial biopsy

• Trolling for a Cause

  Okay, full disclosure: in my day, ‘trolling’ was either dropping a baited fishing line in the water behind the boat as you cruised, or watching out for Billy Goat Gruff villains under the next bridge. I didn’t realize just how much I was in need of a more recent update. I mean why does everything […]

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  May 24, 2017

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  BBC news, blogging, connotative, Dami Olonisakin, denotative, denotatives, diktat, endometrial ablation, endometrial biopsy, heavy periods, hysterectomy, internet bullying, internet shell, menorrhagia, metaphors, online anonymity, sex and relationship blog, side effects, treatment regimes, trolling, Twitter, women’s health

• Prove it!

  If there’s one thing that a long life has taught me, it is that most of us seldom stray far from the path. Once launched, our trajectory is largely predictable. I suppose this is necessary for co-existence –that there are societal norms is, after all, what binds us together as a group. Knowing what people […]

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  August 17, 2016

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  atypical endometrial hyperplasia, Confirmation bias, consequences, endometrial biopsy, hormone therapy, interpretation, Macbeth, Mobius strip, paradigms, pathology report, patterns, postmenopausal bleeding, probability, simple hyperplasia, us and them

• Why do we Know something?

  Knowledge is interesting. But what is it, exactly? What does it mean to say you know something? Plato defined it as being justified true belief, but is it? Take Bertrand Russel’s famous thought experiment: the ‘stopped clock case’, for example. Alice looks at a clock and says it is two o’clock. Well, because the clock […]

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  July 15, 2015

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  Bertrand Russel, Creationism, endometrial biopsy, Gettier Problem, irregular menstrual bleeding, Justified true belief, knowledge, Marcel Proust, menopause, Pandora’s box, Plato, the Why Question, ultrasound

• Trust

  Like time, trust is a difficult concept –easy enough to conceptualize, perhaps, but hard to define. To categorize. To understand. It is slippery, and slides through the fingers like water. As St. Thomas Aquinas said of time, you know what it is until someone asks you to be more specific. It is something, however, that […]

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  March 15, 2015

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  Confirmation bias, doctor rating systems, endometrial biopsy, fibroids, medicine, postmenopausal bleeding, relationships, sickness, St. Thomas Aquinas, Time, trust, ultrasound

• Elder Gynaecology

  I love old people. Sounds a bit patronizing I suppose but I’m becoming one of them, so I have vested interests. And anyway, even the most reticent among them have had a unique, personal view of history. A well tested perspective of Time and its evolutionary ravages. They have grown an almost uncanny ability to […]

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  March 11, 2015

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  biopsy, elderly patient, endometrial biopsy, family doctor, Kmart, medical charts, memory, menopause, old people, post menopausal bleeding, tabula rasa