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This newly re-loaded site will publish useful medical information as well as strong opinions on current medical issues. I will not be shy to confront the more controversial issues of our time and will be happy to publish your comments on any article posted on the site.

I make no bones about being passionate and opinionated about health and medicine. I support and practise whole person orientated medicine and use a variety of medical tools in my practice. These include all the tools of conventional medicine as well as Provocative Therapy, Homeopathy and Autogenic Therapy.

Conventional Medicine:
I certainly did not endure a tough 6 year medical school programme for nothing! Orthodox medical diagnosis and treatment are vital in modern medicine and I will continue to use the principles and practices of conventional medicine whenever I feel they are in the best interest of my patients. Whatever I write here about Provocative Therapy, Homeopathy, Autogenic Therapy and whole person medicine in general should never be taken as disrespect for the fine achievements of conventional scientific medicine.

Homeopathy:
I believe homeopathic medicines are useful, safe and help patients get better quite independent of suggestion or placebo effect. I will defend homeopathy against the attacks of its detractors in the medical profession and popular media. To those particular detractors that deride homeopathy for not being ‘evidence based’ I say that I disagree with your interpretation of the available data and more importantly I say that huge swathes of orthodox medical interventions are far from evidence based. And I have evidence for saying this. Just look at this pie published by the British Medical Journal’s Clinical Evidence!

I will not hesitate to throw this pie in the face of anyone who attacks homeopathy for not being evidence based. People in glass houses really shouldn’t throw stones nor be surprised when their targets gently throw pies in their faces!

Autogenic Therapy:
Stress is a huge factor in medicine yet doctors seldom actually train patients how to release stress and stress-proof themselves. If there was one change I could make to Britain’s NHS it would be to set up an Autogenic clinic in the waiting room of every GP every night. The impact this would make on the health of the nation would be something truly wondrous and it all would be totally cost-effective.

Provocative Therapy:
The cutting edge of the use of clinical reverse psychology and humour in medicine, Provocative Therapy will feature prominently in posts on this site. I believe Provocative Therapy to be a joyous and wonderful form of brief psychotherapy that works quickly and is very cost-effective. On this site, I’ll often use some of the tools of Provocative Therapy to ‘treat’ some of the current issues of the day.

Guest Articles:
I am more than happy to publish guest articles. A patient of mine was so frustrated by what was being said about NHS homeopathy, he researched its cost effectiveness in detail. I was so impressed by his meticulously written article that I’ve published on this site in full. People need to know this sort of information and I’ll be delighted publish material of this quality.

Humour:
Joy, temperance, and repose,
Slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
Thus spake the poet Longfellow.

Temperance: We get helpful advice all over the place these days. People don’t like patronising advice but that won’t stop the ‘authorities’ telling us to eat moderately, that alcoholic drinks ‘all add up’, to eat and drink ‘sensibly’ etc. Not that I disagree of course. I just don’t think people respond well to unsolicited advice that they may well find condescending and patronising. Temperance in most things is important but I think humour is  a much better tool of getting the message across than either dour advice or fear mongering.

Repose: Autogenic Therapy is my prescription.

Joy: Yes, joy and happiness are not only important qualities of life, they are actually good for your health. Laughter has important health benefits (see Kaplan’s Mnemonic) and the reverse psychology of Provocative Therapy often lead to hilarious moments in consultations. It can be a joyous moment when you finally get the inner joke of how you are keeping yourself in a state of almost happiness and that you can prescribe the solution to your problem!

Humour and Joy often go together as is evidence by the smiling faces of joyous people. I’ll try to keep things light and joyous on this site. There is enough seriously heavy stuff on the internet so I will try not to add to it.

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