Anatomical Thoughts
Dives into the human body that inspire social commentary and reflections on health, environment, art, culture, science, death and other curiosities from the viewpoint of a 25-year (and going) emergency doctor.
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The Hand That Gives (opens the original)
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Esther’s veiny fingers, knuckles like shrivelled prunes, wrapped around my pen. I pointed to the line on the medical consent form. Slowly, her large, squiggly signature drifted up the page.“My handwriting used to be lovely,” she sighed as she returned the pen. I gave her hand a light squeeze.The moment my daughter first became cognizant of her hands, we sat on a rocking chair after a sonorous post-breastfeeding burping session; the sweet smell of milk permeated her bedroom. Content, propped up g
The Lost and Found Seahorse (opens the original)
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This past weekend my family and I travelled to Montreal’s Osheaga Festival, and, at my beckoning and their protestations, we did not use GPS. Navigating the white-lettered green signs and a few landmarks, untethered from directional technology, my husband was anxious we’d get lost and arrive late to see Wunderhorse, and my daughter, a holder of world maps and international weather forecasts in the small rectangle on her wrist, could not comprehend the choice.I fielded their outcry with reassuran
A Dicey Slice of the Voice (opens the original)
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It was quieter 500 million years ago. There was no birdsong, no leaves rustling in the wind, no roars. Arthropods trotted along the land and fish swam in oceans at a time when the wind and waves reigned sound and rhythm. Around then, in the depths of murky river waters, a mutation in our ancestor, the lungfish, plotted the advent of voice, animal sounds, laughter, language, song, and music. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=la+perla&sca_esv=869f32d90a7e233b&udm=7&biw=1455&bih=729&sxsrf=AP
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