Health
SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 2
I’m not a happy author right now. On Thursday night (27th), I put together a preliminary article on COVID19, surmising the outcome if the Pope catches the bug. 48 hours later, and he is currently [more…]
Medicine
Health
SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 1
They say a week is a long time in politics, and an identical maxim could be applied to the field of commentary concerning emerging diseases. Not only has 2019-nCoV been renamed SARS-CoV-2, with a payload [more…]
Health
It started with a piss – Part Two
First off, aorta explain that the above pun doesn’t really work when the blood vessel that is the subject of these articles is an artery and not a vein but try as I will, I [more…]
Health
It started with a piss
I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]
19th Century
When Popes Took Coke
The rise and fall of coca wine Coca leaves have been used as a stimulant in South America for over a thousand years, especially in the Andes to overcome the fatigue of living and working [more…]
Health
An essay on Autism. Not “weirdos”
I’ve been thinking of writing about Autism for a few months. When Greta Thunberg or, Saint Greta of Climate as I call her, started to pop-up in studios and in conversations with politicians she also [more…]