This week I have had another blog posted by The Independent. It is titled Facing Modern-Day Stress with Time-Tested Tools. It takes a look at the spiritual angle on dealing with today’s added stresses. Here is an excerpt from the article. “Some researchers into stress have been digging a little deeper into the surrounding question of whether there [...]
I have had a blog of mine published as a “guest posting” in Psychology Today as Is There a Way to Ease Those Anxieties? Thanks to Madora Kibbe for generously sharing her (blogging) space! Does acute or chronic anxiousness need to be an ongoing part of our life? Or is there a way to reduce [...]
In my most recent blog on the Huffington Post UK - called Medical Mistakes and the Intuition Factor - an amazingly courageous and forthright doctor spills the beans about errors in medical practice, but touches on a quality that might make a difference. Here is an excerpt from the article. How then can the element of “human error” be kept to a [...]
This week I have had a blog posted by that great British newspaper The Independent. It titled the article Could the mind play a bigger role in healthcare? It is written in response to a rather stark announcement by the World Health Organisation Director about the state of things to come when antibiotics fail to deliver in the [...]
In my most recent blog on the Huffington Post UK – called Questions of Identity in Sickness and in Health – I touch on the question of “which is the dream and which is the reality?” when we are unwell. Here is an excerpt from the article. (Please “FB share”, “tweet”, “email” “G+″ it or [...]
The “gods in white coats” era is over. And many physicians would be the first to say “amen” to that. As family practitioner Dr. Andrew D. Saal has put it: “We as doctors are essentially powerless over the unknown, just as we are powerless over everyday events. No gods walk in white coats. For physicians, the deepest [...]
Every March 8 the world celebrates International Women’s Day. The 2012 theme is: “Connecting girls, inspiring futures”. One thing that can seem to disconnect us from recognising our full potential for a future of accomplishment is a burdened sense of needing to conform to physical stereotypes of what it means to be beautiful. My most [...]
If having a more positive expectancy of good health can become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy – as a Swiss study suggests – then it is worth working out what will genuinely make us happy. Here is an excerpt from Feeding “the Hungry Heart” with Health and Happiness - this week’s contribution to the Huffington Post UK. (Please [...]
The familiar expression “the squeaky wheel gets the oil/grease” suggests making a fuss gets you a head start in the competition for services. But what does it say if the successful “squeaky wheel” on the trail for the best medical services ends up with worse outcomes? That’s what data indicates in a survey of 50,000 [...]
With mission creep in medicalisation categorising normal human challenges as “sickness” do we need to call a halt? Can we even expect a reversal of today’s medicalisation trends based on a better model of understanding health as normal? Here is an excerpt from The “Medicalisation of Normality” or the Normalisation of Health? Let’s Choose Wisely - my [...]
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