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Anxiety and your Heart
Dr Jonathan Fisher is a cardiologist in Charlotte, South Caroline who has spent 10 thousand hours working on his own anxiety over the past 15 years....
Meetings with Remarkable Healers | Dr. Eric Karl Ledermann
I received a homework assignment from Dr Ledermann before I actually met him. I had begun a course in homeopathy for medical doctors at what was...
Meetings with Remarkable Healers | Lawrence Le Shan: Sing Your Own Song!
I felt privileged to meet this New York psychotherapist in a rotating workshop where you get about 90 minutes with a variety of facilitators. I’ll...
Meetings with Remarkable Healers | Patch Adams: Doctor/Clown Extraordinaire
In the early 1990s, Patch Adams was invited by the British Holistic Medical Association to give a short workshop. I’d read his book called...
Medicine, Homeopathy and Vaccination
This post was first published on 28th October 2019 ie just before the Covid pandemic. I continue to feel the same way about vaccination but would...
Royal Honour for Homeopathy
Homeopathic Doctors honoured by Royal Patronage This post was first published on August 4, 2019. It is worth adding that in June 2024 King Charles...
Heal, treat or cure: Not a case of ‘either or’.
Film Review: H E A L Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80220013 Netflix are to be commended on making a positive and life-affirming film on...
Arts Therapies and Practitioner-based Research
In September, I took part in an art therapy symposium called Art Heals, led by Boston-based Professor of Art Therapy, Shaun McNiff and hosted by...
Backs, ‘Bad’ Backs and Bad Medicine
First published Sept 12, 2016. I feel the same way about backs having had some back problems myself since the original post! Three years ago...
Alternatives to Evidence Based Medicine
Medical scientists and particular the disciples of Scientism are fond of asserting that the only real Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is the...
Sceptics, skeptics, Homeopathy and ‘soft targets’
This post was first published on May 18, 2016. I've just been interviewed on these subjects on a popular podcast....
Democracy defeats Scientism – at last!
This post was first published on April 6, 2016. In 2025 I was interviewed on a popular podcast about these issues in May 2025 Good news for...
Depressed? Blame you ‘Inner Neandertal’…. not
Readers of this blog know that I am no fan of the word 'depression' but it came up in an amazing story in Science this week. The article is about...
Anti-Depressives: Some rather depressing news
I've never liked the word 'depression'. The Victorians referred more accurately to chronic sadness as 'melancholia'. Psychiatry has struggled for...
Welcome to my website
This post was first published on Oct 22, 2015. This website now [June 2025] has a new look altogether thanks to my web designer, Peter Lurie....
Nice one NICE !
An exceptional review by NICE concludes that ‘healthy women with straightforward pregnancies are safer giving birth at home or in a midwife-led unit than in a hospital under the supervision of an obstetrician.’ This triggers a huge debate in the US.
EU BACKS HOMEOPATHY!
EU backs homeopathy in new directive.
Generalising about CAM is misleading
It’s unfair to label all CAM practitioners as unscrupulous crooks.
Whole Person Medicine includes orthodox medicine and oncology.
Doctors and CAM practitioners should talk more often.
Homeopathy, Clinical Outcome and People
Outcome studies are no more than a collation of the voices of patients – the very people whose welfare this debate has apparently been all about. Patients care about getting better; how they got better is of secondary importance.
Homeopathy has to be Experienced to be Believed
Homeopathy is no more controversial today than it was in 1948 when it was invited to be part of the NHS at its inauguration.
Homeopathy is a structured process involving a very detailed consultation at the end of which a medicine is prescribed which suits the patient and his or her illness in totality.
On Having a ‘Bad Back’
Back pain is a huge problem for people and the Economy. Diagnosis is difficult.
Strengthening the muscles of the back can have great results but involves a lot of work.
Back pain: Jabs, Steroids and ‘Cures’
The media misrepresents findings of USA anaesthetist on back pain and injections
Marching to 100 with Homeopathy!
Jane Gilchrist, one of homeopathy’s greatest advocates celebrates her 100th birthday party at The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine.
Homeopathy and the Ex-Chief Scientific Advisor
Once again, Sir John Beddington insults GPs who choose to send their patients for homeopathy on the NHS.