Language and shared decision-making
My Twitter timeline recently told me about a new report – Removing barriers to shared decision-making (link here). I’m interested in SDM, so I started reading. I’m sorry to say it will remove no barrier, nor will it help shared decision-making. Here is why. Continue reading “Language and shared decision-making”
Writing about suffering…and wine
A few years ago, I started reading about wine (a few months ago, I even started doing some writing). At first, I didn’t tell anyone about it (apart from people very close to me), later, I started talking about it more openly. And the reaction has been, to put it euphemistically, mixed. So here is a blog not so much about my interest in wine, but about what it means to study and write about pure suffering. Continue reading “Writing about suffering…and wine”
What did the patient say?
A story of Joan (link here), an elderly patient, appeared on my increasingly chaotic Twitter timeline. It was applauded by medics. In contrast, I was struck by how little we get to hear from her. And so, in this post I want to ask the question of what Joan actually said. Continue reading “What did the patient say?”
Arizona, communism, and a glass of Chablis
I often say that I am a child of communism (born and university educated still in communist Poland, I wrote about it here). It has had a significant impact on how I have viewed reality around me and myself in it. As I grow older I reach back to to that time. In this post, I want to tell one of my favourite stories from the times of communism. So, here is a post about Polish ‘wine’ and my first ever glass of wine. Continue reading “Arizona, communism, and a glass of Chablis”