Some weeks one wonders if we are living in a Monty Python sketch. There has been the case of a person in Canada who identifies as a woman but has had no surgery, complaining to the human rights commission that a female beautician refused to handle and wax the scrotum....
In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis a Hungarian Physician first discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be significantly reduced if doctors washed their hands before attending to mothers. Despite publication of results showing that hand washing reduced mortality...
Trigger warning – those offended by politically incorrect views are advised to read no further. Dateline 2024 – a client enters the GP cubicle. “X” (gender or marital status is no longer recorded in medical information) “Back before 2018 you used to tell...
Lets start with one of the few incontrovertible facts that we have on earth. Every single person on this planet has a mother and a father. In the modern era there are many more computations than in the past. Some people may never know their biological mother (if it is...
Certain things have significance beyond the obvious. One of these is the kitchen table. In a hectic world where many eat in front of screens and eat food, which lacks in nutrition, the kitchen table stands as a sentinel, where people stop the other things they may be...
