Warning: This post discuses suicide. The following guest post was written by Vanessa Ritchie, who after seeing the documentary on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, on SBS's, The Feed, has not only written a letter of thanks but has been brave and kind enough to share the personal, heart-wrenching stories of her two friends who have sadly become, yet more casualties in the … [Read more...] about Part I: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Suicide in Australia
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MCS: The Illness Crippling Australians, Dismissed by Doctors
'An estimated one million Australians suffer from MCS, an extreme allergy to everyday chemicals in cosmetics, air fresheners and cleaning products. While some Australians have chosen to end their own lives rather than live with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Australia’s medical authorities continue to reject calls to recognise the condition as a disease. “Patients get … [Read more...] about MCS: The Illness Crippling Australians, Dismissed by Doctors
Podcast ‘Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners’
This Friday, from FX Medicine, we have a podcast with Dr Mark Donohoe and Andrew Whitfield-Cook, titled, 'Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners' Those patients for which medicine has no answers or solutions are very often the ones ending up in front of an integrative medicine practitioner. The time spent with patients is often longer, the … [Read more...] about Podcast ‘Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners’