ecowaltz/flickr, CC BY-NC Kevin Brophy, University of Melbourne There are several ways into the book Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain, edited by Heather Taylor Johnson. And there are many uses it might serve in the multiple worlds of poetry and the even wider worlds of medicine, therapy, sociology and life writing, to name just a few. I picked … [Read more...] about On Poetry and Pain
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How to make a: ‘Submission to MBA Consultation document on complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments’
The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) have tried to rush through this proposal (we have to June 30 to lodge submissions.) If you know one thing, know this, if you have a chronic illness and you've been helped by a Doctor of Environmental Medicine, you need to put in a submission (one paragraph is all you need) so that you and other people with illnesses such as MCS, CFS/ME, … [Read more...] about How to make a: ‘Submission to MBA Consultation document on complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments’
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’
Thriving Health Podcast
I've just come across this podcast—via Vegan Revolution's podcast—called Thriving Health Podcast: Enjoy! … [Read more...] about Thriving Health Podcast