Because, it is far easier to want a nicer, more expensive outfit than it is to ask ourselves why we can never conceive that we…
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If I had to choose the way I could die, I would probably like to go peacefully in my sleep. It seems that Nelson Mandela…
(For several years I was an expatriate medical officer on a big company diamond mine in Botswana. All names have been changed.) Ring ring ……
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…