Tag: patient expectations

• The Feminine Perspective?

  “Men and women think differently, doctor,” a patient said to me recently, shaking her head in response to some requested advice from me. “You of all people should know that.” It was stated with a look of smug authority, as if  to disagree would have been tantamount to an admission of professional incompetence. And while […]

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  June 21, 2013

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  differing gender world view., Female perspective, feminine approach, gender in medicine, gender roles, medical opinions, patient expectations, women’s health, women’s issues, words

• Intimations of Mortality

  It’s never easy to be a doctor -especially an obstetrician. Accouchement is just too unpredictable; babies are just too vulnerable, too fragile. Too many things can go wrong. Quickly. Unexpectedly. Too many people are affected -the doctor included. Most of us travel through our days in the naïve hope that we will somehow escape unscathed; that bad things […]

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  April 26, 2013

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  birth complications, expectations of birth, Grief, limitations of Medicine, Medical tragedies, patient expectations, pregnancy complications, Women’s Health issues

• Screening Systems

  Science, or at least the scientific method, can disappoint can’t it? We are informed -assured- that something is correct, the right thing to believe, and then with the passage of time and the arrival of new data must suddenly disavow that ‘Truth’ and start all over again. The comforting feeling that we have at last apprehended the […]

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  January 11, 2013

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  medical ethics, medical options, Medical screening, Pap smears, patient expectations, patient information, women’s health