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’
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Integrative Medicine: My Experience; My Submission (partly)
After 16 years of suffering with inhalant allergies to chemical irritants, and getting sicker each winter, crashing completely (twice) in unsuitable rental housing with damp concrete, and another time, a leaking roof, that, when finally I did pay a visit to a Doctor of Integrative Medicine, that that doctor knew within an hour of speaking to me that I had CIRS, Going to … [Read more...] about Integrative Medicine: My Experience; My Submission (partly)
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’
The Thrill and Stress of Building a Low-Tox House
I am so thankful for those who helped us build our house. It has been a dream come true--a safe place for me to recover. During the process, I was excited and stressed out at the same time. It was wonderful to see it come together, but I felt so many emotions of anxiety, fear, worry and impatience.I wondered if something would go wrong. I desperately wanted the … [Read more...] about The Thrill and Stress of Building a Low-Tox House
Access to Buildings and Services: Guidelines and Information
It's been bought to our attention at Labyrinth Press that some documents, particularly the 'Access to Buildings and Services: Guidelines and Information' document, which is useful for people with chemical sensitivity were missing from the the Australian Human Rights website and from the internet; and indeed, links to this document were actually broken across this site. And, I … [Read more...] about Access to Buildings and Services: Guidelines and Information