Writing about ideas
Sometimes I like to write about ideas rather than research. Here is a collection of musings that might give you ideas too.
Philosophy
What is a medical indication?
Medical indications exist somewhere on a spectrum between being written on tablets of stone, handed down to new doctors by a supreme being on a mountain top – to being completely made up on a whim. What happens when they are misused?
Deciding what to measure and why it matters
Measuring outcomes in fetal monitoring research: there’s more to it than at first glance.
Mysterious cats and CTG monitoring
Early last year I wrote a post about Dr Who and alternative universes, highlighting the way that people make meaning of their individual experiences. For those of us who are health practitioners, it is important to reflect on the way we make meaning because it is easy to slip into what are known as cognitive biases. We can’t always avoid these, but it does help to have examples of such […]
What is perinatal asphyxia? An analysis of how we construct meaning.
What do we mean when we say perinatal asphyxia?
“Fetal Distress”: An Epic Tale
Is it time to rethink the concept of “fetal distress”?
What do dead white men have to do with it?
Someone took a little rant of mine and turned it into something wonderful!
Who do you want to be?
Be the person you want to be proud of in the future. #InstitutionalEthnography #DorothyESmith @bellhooks
Birth Small Talk 