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Gloss « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. February 18, 2015. I put on some lipstick this morning. And I put on my favourite dress (new, not a charity shop number). I have to look my best for one million Australians. There’s a crew of two here. Interviewing and filming me for the ABC’s national flagship current affairs programme. I’ll put the link to the programme up when I get it within the next fortnight or so. And this was screened in Australia this morning – includes a very small contribution from me! Does t...
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Fan Mail « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. September 20, 2014. I’m in Coach E on a Virgin train, somewhere in Middle England, on my way home. Nearly everybody (including the five-year-old opposite ) is, like me, plugged into an electronic device. Many are in virtual contact with – who (or should that be whom )? Or are they following Facebook friends, or the rich and famous on Twitter? I wonder what the global reach from Coach E is. This entry was tagged blogging. Preventing Overdiagnosis →. It was good to meet y...
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March « 2014 « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. Monthly Archives: March 2014. Breast cancer screening – yet more. March 26, 2014. I am cautiously positive about this. Because medics would need to explore the concept of risk with the “at-risk” women, and give more detailed information. IF they could do this in an unbiased, open way, without exerting pressure, this might be better than what we have got at the moment —. Advice on breast screening from the Australian Breast Cancer Network:. March 17, 2014. Commons Select...
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January « 2014 « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. Monthly Archives: January 2014. Cochrane decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions. January 28, 2014. This reference is a good one. Don’t be scared by all the stats – just scroll down to the plain English version if you can’t face grappling with them. I now have a name for at least part of what I have been suffering from. No, not breast cancer, but: “decisional conflict related to being uninformed.”. My comment: the harms and lack of benefi...
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December « 2013 « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. Monthly Archives: December 2013. December 21, 2013. So there wasn’t much challenge or new thinking in the school carol service, and maybe I shouldn’t have expected it there. But hasn’t anyone written anything worthwhile about Christmas since Dickens? Http:/ www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do? I think this is full of great images, and I especially love the rhythmic tension in the last stanza. However my focus just now is on the line:. Something – gra...
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Saving Lives? « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. January 22, 2015. To my horror and wry amusement, I have also just been invited for a routine mammogram! I’m pretty sure the NHS has my number, and the computers should have computed –. However, the “invitation” (invidious word) has given me the opportunity to fire off a salvo to the local Clinical Director, which I reproduce here, in part:. If you don’t want to read it all (and it is a challenge), here are the main conclusions:. Among currently available screening test...
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January « 2015 « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. Monthly Archives: January 2015. January 22, 2015. To my horror and wry amusement, I have also just been invited for a routine mammogram! I’m pretty sure the NHS has my number, and the computers should have computed –. However, the “invitation” (invidious word) has given me the opportunity to fire off a salvo to the local Clinical Director, which I reproduce here, in part:. If you don’t want to read it all (and it is a challenge), here are the main conclusions:. Among cu...
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September « 2014 « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. Monthly Archives: September 2014. September 25, 2014. A post about the Scottish referendum and a lot else besides. I learned one or two things today while putting this post together. 1) Carol Ann Duffy is Scottish (maybe I knew this and had forgotten). 2) There is a market for wedding bouquets made of thistles and roses (try Google images and see). Though they clearly don’t fail. Tha gaol agam ort. A thistle can draw blood,. So can a rose,. Or pilgrim Keats come walking.
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Pink Stinks « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. October 7, 2014. I don’t feel it all as acutely as last year, but it’s a bit crap, isn’t it? I mean, I’m very glad if someone gets the message that NBD is a bad idea because of what I wrote. But I’m not glad that, whatever else I write about – rivers, memory, poems, music, ageing, cancer, overdiagnosis, getting better – it’s the post about the bras and the boobs that gets the hits. So, if you’re visiting here because of. This entry was tagged blogging. October 12, 2016.
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November « 2014 « One Lump or Two
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One Lump or Two. Damned if You Do. Monthly Archives: November 2014. All Saints and All Souls: A Last Beatitude. November 3, 2014. All Saints and All Souls: A Last Beatitude. Please click on this link). The link above prompted some further thoughts about inclusion and our intentional community . And at our pot-luck supper, I was appealed to as one who might know about the ecclesiastical calendar (what does Hallowe’en actually mean? What is remembered on All Saints and All Souls Day? Follow Blog via Email.
