Tag: laparoscopy

• PTSD in Gynaecology?

  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD) is an anxiety disorder caused by being exposed to a traumatic or frightening event. It has been described in various guises since antiquity: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30957719, but although we have traditionally ascribed it to military veterans, it is by no means confined to those who have been in the midst of […]

  gozzter

  May 30, 2015

  Uncategorized

  chlamydia, Diagnostic criteria for PTSD, DSM-5, laparoscopy, pelvic pain, PID, PTSD, PTSD in antiquity, sexually transmitted diseases, social media, STI

• The Crown Jewel

    Ahh, those were the days! The days when naivete reigned. The once-upon-a-times when my practice was young and everyone around me seemed old. They spoke a language I had not anticipated in my training; they seem to have subscribed to different dictionaries, or the words were smudged so they did their best with what […]

  gozzter

  October 8, 2014

  Uncategorized

  belly button, belly dance, crown jewels, danse du ventre, endometriosis, incision, language, laparoscopy, lower quadrant pain, medical practice, monthlies, navel, Pain, parts, pelvic pain, vocabulary

• 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 […]

  gozzter

  September 25, 2014

  Uncategorized

  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