Here’s the solution to a word-search puzzle I created for November 6th; the 2017 awareness-raising day for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, or CRPS. It’s a rare and usually invisible disease, and to make it even harder to pin down, many physicians seem to use its Read More …
I had some fun in the waiting area of my physiotherapy (PT) clinic tonight, with one of the youngsters who was sitting there. His dad got into the act as well, as did one of the clinic employees who happened to be walking by ‘-) As Read More …
I never would have thought that a medical appointment would be a good thing. Today’s was! ‘-) I had a rare disease-related appointment this morning, in the downtown (city centre) area. That’s about a 20- to 45-minute drive from my office, depending on the traffic. Read More …
After the very disturbing conversation that I’d had with another physician in June (read my post on Betrayal for details), I finally submitted a detailed complaint to the hospital’s Service Quality and Complaints Commissioner in mid-August. On August 21 I received a call from their Read More …
In bioethics, ‘risk-benefit’ analyses or calculations usually refer to patient decisions. When I worked in clinical (medical) research ethics, the best example was when a patient would consider whether or not to participate in a clinical trial. But each of us, patient or not, makes Read More …
I originally registered this URL – and started blogging about bioethics (also called medical ethics) – back in June 2007. At the time, no one in bioethics seemed to know what a blog was: “What’s a blob?” With developments and research in genetics, and new Read More …
