How then to summarise what, I think, taking personal responsibility involves? We each need to decide how we want to be, then be it. I suggest we are self-creating beings. Responsible for what we make of our lives. An existentialist, Quaker inspired, philosophical stance (Guignon, 2021; Sweet, 2025 & Bragg,2012.)

Outlines how our anger can become an emotion like any other. An asset that can be used constructively for our benefit. I too have struggled to control my feelings of anger. The length of time between me experiencing anger and deciding what to do has been short. Flashes of anger, rapid thoughts, followed by flashes of behaviour.

For many decades, women have been told that modern medicine is equal and objective; every patient will receive the same care, regardless of their gender. However, reality tells a very different story. From the clinical trials that exclude women to doctors who dismiss female pain as stress or hormonal, women are continuing to face systemic under representation and bias in the medical field. In the 20th century, women were excluded from medical research and drug trials