Paul Dubbins, MBBS

If my wife is right, I am, in fact, a woman. She and other women in my life all maintain that only women can multitask.

If my wife is right, I am, in fact, a woman. She and other women in my life all maintain that only women can multitask.

I didn’t know it until now but if my wife is right, I am, in fact, a woman. She and other women in my life-family, coworkers, friends-all maintain that it is only women who can multitask. Yet there is published evidence that I and all of my male colleagues work in an environment that is interrupt-driven with high multitasking loads. Superwoman, eat your heart out.

Living in England has inevitable consequences, ones shared with most of Northern Europe. The winter is long and dark, and, in South West England, also wet and cold.

Recently, I spent a week playing with dolls and learning how to wash my hands. Am I regressing?

I was never very good at the classics at school.

Radiologists in Manchester, U.K., and Ghent, Belgium, have carried out highresolution CT on the 50-million-year-old fossilized remains of a spider embedded in amber, according to a report from October 2007 on physorg.com

Medical school, postgraduate training, continuing medical education . . . in common with most other doctors, I have been learning throughout my career. I sometimes, perhaps rather pompously, consider myself to be an expert, or at least a specialist.

Health tourism has never appealed to me much. I am privileged to live in a country where healthcare is considered a basic human right and where, while quality and access may not be perfect

The holiday season is over, and it is the timeto make New Year's resolutions. What toresolve? My perception that the finishedarticle could hardly be improved upon isfrequently challenged by my family.

I have severe pains in my head and my right hand that have started only recently. I wonder if I am working too hard, though my chief says that my output and efficiency can only be described as average.

I have always loved allegory. Asan art form, it can cause us toexamine our beliefs, to reflect onthe influences that govern ourlives.