Tag: Pap smear

• A Flicker of Hope

  It’s interesting what catches our attention when we surf the apps on our smartphones nowadays. Some of the more provocative articles have dubious sources, of course, but with a little digging the original study can often be found and the claims checked. The problem, however, is that even these results need to be reproducible in […]

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  May 3, 2017

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  Age, Alzheimer’s disease, BBC news, brain, cancer of the cervix, Flickering light therapy, gynaecologiy residents, gynaecology program, junior resident, memories, MIT, Nature, nurses, Pap smear, paranoid delusions, psychiatric ward, residency training, schizophrenia

• The Slow Cooker

  Dare I comment on the speculum? It is a very underrated item, when you think about it – I mean, if you think about it… Uhmm, considering its job and everything… Ask any gynaecologist. Like shoes, one size does not fit all. In fact, continuing the analogy, there are many shapes and designs: long ones, […]

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  December 3, 2014

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  Crock Pot, First Law of Thermodynamics, hot water, kettle, mechanical engineer, metal speculum, Pap smear, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Slow Cooker, speculum, tap water, temperature, tepidity

• Critical Thinking and Bullying

  A few weeks ago, a young woman came in to see me to have her first Pap smear. While I was taking a routine sexual history, she admitted she had recently been bullied online. I’m not even sure how the topic came up, but she didn’t seem very upset, so I asked her about it. “The guy was a real […]

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  October 2, 2014

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  analysing the message, bullying, Carl Popper, causal chains, Confirmation bias, Critical Thinking, deconstructing, deductive reasoning, distancing oneself, falsifiability, inductive reasoning, judging, logic, magical thinking, Pap smear, questioning, Science, Scientific method, Scientific thinking, self esteem, validity, victimization