Tag: postmenopausal bleeding

• Prove it!

  If there’s one thing that a long life has taught me, it is that most of us seldom stray far from the path. Once launched, our trajectory is largely predictable. I suppose this is necessary for co-existence –that there are societal norms is, after all, what binds us together as a group. Knowing what people […]

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  August 17, 2016

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  atypical endometrial hyperplasia, Confirmation bias, consequences, endometrial biopsy, hormone therapy, interpretation, Macbeth, Mobius strip, paradigms, pathology report, patterns, postmenopausal bleeding, probability, simple hyperplasia, us and them

• Time Enough

  Time, the faceless tyrant that rules our lives like an absentee landlord, is so abstract, so opaque, it is difficult to grasp. It is seeing through a glass, darkly if at all. Enslaving everything within its reach it is an impartial despot. Dispassionate in its all-embracing realm, we are each of us imprisoned and there is […]

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  July 22, 2015

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  guilt, Hawthorne, menstrual calendars, older patients, postmenopausal bleeding, Rabindranath Tagore, referring physician, slave of time, Time, time perception

• 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