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When Is a Doctor a Doctor?

Why does soci­ety value the M.D. away from her place of work so much more than it does the Ph.D. away from her place of work? I can under­stand the need to dis­tin­guish the M.D. from the Ph.D. in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Surgery and Sex, Getting Back To It

It can be espe­cially men­tal. When the surgery is per­formed directly on a part of the phys­i­cal sex sys­tem, when there is direct injury to sex­ual tis­sues, the men­tal aspect may even be a big­ger hur­dle to over­come. I can … Con­tinue read­ing

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Do Surgeons Understand Pain?

My most recent sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure has proven to have a bit more resid­ual pain than I expected. Or per­haps; my tol­er­ance for pain is declin­ing with each addi­tional pro­ce­dure. Or even per­haps; my mind has cho­sen to not remem­ber what … Con­tinue read­ing

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Accompanying Your Partner to Medical Appointments — Revisited

This is a follow-up to a recent post on our prac­tice of accom­pa­ny­ing each other when­ever pos­si­ble to our med­ical appoint­ments. I had another sched­uled med­ical pro­ce­dure. One that involved male gen­i­talia, née­dles, some rather exotic med­ica­tion (it would be … Con­tinue read­ing

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Accompanying Your Partner to Medical Appointments

Through our expe­ri­ences with var­i­ous med­ical chal­lenges, we have devel­oped a habit, which has become a gen­eral prac­tice that we wish we had prac­ticed from the very begin­ning of our rela­tion­ship. When­ever pos­si­ble, we accom­pany each other to our med­ical … Con­tinue read­ing

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Medical Fuck Ups

Being the recep­ta­cle of a fair num­ber of un-fried neu­rons and a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of prop­erly trained synap­tic path­ways, yours truly is rea­son­able capa­ble of fol­low­ing the descrip­tion of tests that a physi­cian would like to per­form on the bio­log­i­cal … Con­tinue read­ing

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