(For several years I was an expatriate medical officer on a big company diamond mine in Botswana. All names have been changed.) Ring ring ……
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I saw recently a statement by a scientist that the first human to live for a thousand years has already been born. He was that…
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Or, in this case, it is usually a sheep-eat-plant world. But in Chile, sometimes the plants eat the sheep. When I…
A welcome break from medical politics – I wrote this a long time ago … it still applies just as much now as it did…
I got taken to the doctor. He sat opposite me and said exactly nothing, not even hello or how are you. Pale and discomforted, he…
We really, really do. You probably wonder about this. I’ve yet to meet any doctor in private medical practice who feels indifferent, let alone positive,…
When Gilles Deleuze claimed that what Foucault had theorised as the panoptical, carceral society of disciplined, docile bodies — economically productive and politically impotent —…
Ever heard of the “30cm rule”? This unwritten rule is popular in many co-ed high schools and it stipulates that a boy and a girl…
In my last post here I made the observation that I practice medicine in a fee-for-service private system that is dysfunctional. Consumers of healthcare are…
Today, for the first time ever, I read a short piece about why some women have an orgasm during rape. It included: “Orgasm during rape…