Tag: fibroids

• 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

• A Medical Dilemma

  Here’s an outrageous assertion: there are some things that we just cannot control. Worse, sometimes they are undefineable – or at least so vague as to defy placing them on some scale or other. Ranking them in terms of importance either to us, or to others. Naming them for future reference. And if we cannot […]

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  September 25, 2014

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  anticoagulation, belly button surgery, blood thinners, fibroids, indications for surgery, laparoscopy, medical decisions, medical dilemma, myomectomy, pulmonary embolism, Revisionism, Things we cannot control, treatment of fibroids, tumor markers, ultrasound

• Fibroids

  I sometimes prefer to call them leiomyomas -it’s more descriptive of a condition that involves muscle cells- or even fibromas. I said this by way of beginning an explanation to a patient who was sent to me for them; she looked at me as if I had just sworn at her -belittled her condition. I hadn’t meant to… “Hiding behind medical […]

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  December 7, 2012

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  counselling, fibroids, fibromas, heavy periods, medical ethics, patient choice, women’s health

• The surgical option

  I’m not opposed to the surgical option, it’s just that there are many roads to Rome, and sometimes an indirect route is more satisfying. Don’t misunderstand; I’m an Ob/Gyn surgeon. It’s what I do, but not to the exclusion of everything else. There are times when surgery is necessary, life-saving, difficult to avoid. There are few […]

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  July 27, 2012

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  fibroids, illness, medical options, surgery, surgical options, treatment options, women’s health