Tag: patients

• The Unfallen Yellow Leaf

  ‘Age, with his stealing steps, hath clawed me in his clutch,’ as the gravedigger in Hamlet says. I’m not so sure I agree –he was speaking about a skull, after all- but I have to admit there are times when I do feel old, and shipped ‘into the land as if I had never been […]

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  December 7, 2016

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  Age, aged, eyes, faces, Hamlet, John Updike, memories, patients, pregnancy care, Rabbit, recognition, the gravedigger

• Leave Me Alone

  I have lived in a hospital as an on-call obstetrician on more days –and nights- than I can count over the years; hospitals were the grudging homes for me ever since medical school and the subsequent ages of specialty training that fell upon me like unbidden hats. And despite the palimpsest of colours I was […]

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  August 3, 2016

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  BBC news, Dr.Harlan Krumholz, Emily Dickinson, gynaecology resident doctor, Hope, hospitals, on call, overdose, patients, pelvic infection, PHS, Post Hospital Syndrome, stress, women’s health, Yale School of Medicine

• The Cleanse

  Sometimes, if I have the chance, I like to review the list of referral letters before I see any patients for the day. It tells me what to expect; how to allocate the time for the consultations; whether any of them might be particularly interesting. Surprises happen. The other day, one letter about a patient caught my attention. […]

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  September 18, 2014

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  Chronic yeast infection, Cleanse, Colon Cleanse, Confirmation bias, correlation does not equal causation, fecal microbiome, medical journals, medical treatments, patients, referral letters, Spurious Correlations, toxins