never seen this before …… I’ve been visiting Tokyo every year for ten years now but I’ve never ever looked over the city and seen anything in the distance other than a haze. What a surprise I got when I looked out this morning (recently) and saw this far. (Some of my Japanese friends say [...]
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Clear horizon over Tokyo
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Moore – care of the soul
Posted in from the reading room, life, philosophy on September 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This week I had the enormous and delightful privilege of meeting Thomas Moore. He delivered a talk in the Medical Lecture Theatre at Glasgow’s Western Infirmary after visiting us in the Centre for Integrative Care, Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, in the afternoon. So we had the chance to both meet him personally, and hear one of [...]
Moonlight over Tokyo
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Tokyo is darker at night now. They’ve switched off a lot of the lights because the electricity supply has never returned to pre-Fukushima accident levels. Beautiful though…maybe more beautiful
Four steps to improve Evidence Based Medicine
Posted in from the consulting room, health on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Evidence Based Medicine, as originally described by Prof Sackett, seemed a good idea at the time. Essentially, he said we should be aware of the sum of the evidence from research studies before we embark upon a specific therapeutic intervention for a person. Sadly, it’s become a hugely distorted idea, not least because experimental evidence [...]
4 ways to think about health
Posted in from the consulting room, health on September 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m a doctor. I used to be a “family doctor”, a “GP”. Now it’s harder to explain what kind of doctor I am. I work at the Centre for Integrative Care, Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital. We see patients of all ages, either sex, and with any diagnosis whatsoever. That much is similar to my previous work [...]
Care of the Soul in Medicine
Posted in from the consulting room, health on September 17, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I’m listening to the audio version of Thomas Moore’s “Care of the Soul in Medicine”, and I can’t remember the last book I encountered with which I so comprehensively agree. I’ve not used the word “soul” much in life, and the triad of “body, mind and spirit” or “body, mind and energy” have seemed more [...]
The importance of stories – fictional stories
Posted in books, creativity, education, from the living room, from the reading room, life, narrative, psychology, writing on September 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m a great fan of stories. In fact, I think we understand ourselves and others by using narrative, and the central way in which I work as a doctor is to hear people’s stories, and help them to change them from stories of being stuck or in chaos, to stories of flow, and flourishing and [...]
Compliance…the vision of modern medicine?
Posted in from the consulting room, health, music, video on September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
So just what IS the vision of those who deliver our health services these days? Is this the message they’re giving us…….? Listen carefully…….
Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer on the importance of compassion
Posted in from the consulting room, health, video on September 9, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Take a few moments and watch this short video clip (about 7 minutes). It’s the last part of Sir Harry Burns, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer’s excellent address to the NHS Scotland Conference 2011. In this part of his talk, he eloquently makes a strong case for the central importance of compassion in health care. You [...]
We’re all waves
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room on September 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is how I see Life. We are all like waves on the surface of the sea. We all emerge, temporarily, from the universe, from the cosmos, from the continuous, and inseparably connected all that is. Slow down the movie of the sea, and you’ll see that each wave is unique. It has its distinct [...]
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