February 2023 – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

Why Israel is not an Apartheid State & a risky date acquisition

Boycott, divest and sanction is,

Antisemitic.

Emily isn’t her real name.

Emily isn’t her real name. I introduced her to our medical student on Friday. She is rake-thin, with wizened skin From almost a century of cigarettes, She shuffles from room to room on a dusty walker, Her mobility scooter askew In the corner of her room. I’ve mentioned her before, She of the parakeet Coco.Continue reading “Emily isn’t her real name.”

Person-centred care and self-love

I, as a doctor might know all about diabetes or asthma, you as the person with the condition know all about you. What you know about you is always far more than I can know about the dry technicalities of disease, even with a lifetime of experience.

Black Swan

Moments with my daughter,
reflecting
on growth and change.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Whether I call them

Mr Cohen

Or Albert

Mrs Shleperstein

Or Gloria.

Please… Write to me.

It calls for better informed patients, a shift of the power-balance, away from ‘papa-says.’ It is an undoing of paternalism towards equality and inclusion.