Why the Quack?
The family had just come back from a holiday in a malaria area. I asked whether they had taken prophylaxis. “No.” I asked her how she would treat one of her children if he became sick with malaria. “At...
View ArticleSpeaking as a Mother On Vaccination
Society commonly labours under the assumption that people know what’s best for their body. This is generally the case when we discuss the lay public, but when it comes to medicine? The most common...
View ArticleHera – The Other Side
Important!TW – Hospital, Sickness This may seem a little sick but…I think I’m actually glad in a way that I had had my hospital admission. Yeah so I was deathly ill. Couldn’t move, function and all...
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Eye for an Eye
This one’s being doing the rounds. It is rather weird to me to see people bully someone who is fighting cancer but apparently it happens. This is my all-time favorite picture. I’m so proud of myself. I...
View ArticleMy Day
Medication is a powerful thing. The medicines we prescribe and take can change the lives of people. So when they stop using the medicine the change is phenomenal. On the train back home, I watched an...
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Vitriol and Vitriolage – Acid Burns and the usage of victims in Atheist Bullying
PTSD is a funny beast. Important!TW – Atheist Drama, Bullying, PTSD, Acid Victims To suffer from it is not a form of weakness. I suffer from it due to the actions of others and trauma inflicted. How...
View ArticleIt’s Not Divine, It’s Just Childbirth and Sometimes it goes wrong
I am an oddity in the whole “Natural/Medical” birth argument. See, I am pro-medical birth. Staunchly so. I think the absolute BEST possible outcome of childbirth is at the hands of trained medical...
View ArticleNot Doing Your Job Means Being Part of the Problem
Whitechapel Haven was one of the first rape crisis centres in the UK. This was flagship crisis centre that provided dedicated services to people who have been raped. They are technically called SARCs....
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Not the Ducks – A Perfectly Natural Home Birth
There are problems with “liberals” we have our own set of issues with skepticism. So while I am more likely to argue about Evolution with a conservative, I am more likely to argue about quackery and...
View ArticleNot the Ducks! – The Feminist Breeder Proves My Natural Birth Point
Yesterday I wrote about Natural Birth, it’s a contentious issue with regards to body autonomy. A lot of women defend the practice as “It’s not dangerous” as the stats in home birth are skewed by Home...
View ArticleAn Old Response to Russel Glasser Regarding Vaccinations
Hi Avicenna, great article. I’d just like to ask a question because this is definitely an area where I could stand to bone up on my technique. “There is an absolute hand grenade of question that I have...
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If I Wanted Advice on Being A Prince
Prince Charles is at it again. There is a problem with Prince Charles, unlike his mummy he doesn’t seem all that bothered about trying to interfere with the running of the UK. Now the problem here is...
View ArticleKickstarter – Bacterionomicon
This… is a RPGesque style book about Bacteria and treatments. And not only does it look gorgeous, it looks fun too! There are whole bunch of medical themed games to boot! It’s met it’s goals already...
View ArticleFemale Genital Mutilation – A Landmark
Female Genital Mutilation is not a good practice. I have long stood against it. However I have had issues with the UK’s laws with regards to Female Genital Mutilation. Doctors were told to fight the...
View ArticleNot the Ducks! – Quacks, Wikipedia and True Scientific Discourse
You won’t believe how handy Wikipedia is to a medic in training, sometimes you just need to look something up. A condition, a drug or a procedure, and you don’t have a book to hand. And often you may...
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Dear Parents, You are Being Lied to By Living Whole
The Anti-vax lobby is under fire. I have long stated that the anti-vax lobby had it’s success due to the success of medicine. See, we made diseases rare. The normal childhood diseases were few and far...
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The Case Against Religious Circumcision
Circumcision is essential to Judaism or Islam. One often wonders why a divine being is so interested in the foreskins of believers rather than their actual well being. The argument that circumcision...
View ArticleHow to Dismantle a functioning Medical System
The fascination with the dismantling of a socialised medical system is a conservative wet dream. It’s as if the very presence of the NHS is a fetid sore on the arse of the United Kingdom rather than...
View ArticleFaith Killing
Travis and Wenona Rossiter, an Albany couple are members of the Church of the First Born, a fundamentalist sect that believes traditional medical treatment is sinful, and instead trust in God to heal...
View ArticleCruel and Unusual
Oklahoma botched an execution. This is not news but I can help explain why it got botched. See Marcus Ranum (Long time reader and big time donor to A Million Gods) wrote this and I wished to expand on...
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