Adapting to a worklife of academia5th June 2023
I’m not sure which is the optimal way forward. Either, I can tolerate that my freetime dwindles more and more each year and just hope readers are sympathetic to this and don’t write me off as lazy/uninterested. Alternatively, I can delete the “date submitted” information […]
Is pain “in the body or the mind”?30th June 2021
“Take your mind off your pain” is a common phrase you will hear from compassionate family members, disparaging strangers and even from the doctor within the clinic. You’ll see this approach in action when you aggressively hum the theme to Eastenders after stubbing your toe, or when you distract […]
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists8th March 2021
This will be a much shorter post than normal, mainly as the topic is directed to my attendance at the annual meeting of RCOG, to present my hysteroscopy manuscript. The other reason is that, outside of inane and specific challenges I’m facing with analysis, continued lockdown has really put a […]
“Pain-free Hysteroscopy”5th November 2020
It is unlikely to be controversial for me to suggest that pain is not merely a product of sensory stimulation (please excuse that rather clunky double-negative). I have previously mentioned the annals of Henry Beecher, wherein soldiers during World War II were observed to decline analgesia despite […]
Tolerance of Uncertainty13th August 2020
To start off, for any fellow nerds that may read this. I’m sorry to disappoint, this is not a comprehensive review article on the psychological concept of intolerance of uncertainty (let’s get the acronym out of the way, IoU). However, happily, it is definitely related. From what I […]