Dr Anne Malatt
Anne has been a doctor for 40 years and an eye surgeon for over 30 years. She loves her work, her patients, teaching and writing, for she loves people and life. Anne feels great joy in being able to share her lived experience and wisdom, that other people may learn and grow and return to being the All that we all are.
A love letter to medical students
I love training medical students. They bring me great joy and as they are one of the most under-appreciated groups of people in any...
The joy of training medical students
I love training medical students; they bring me great joy.
Medicine is an apprenticeship system and the time-honoured approach of “see one, do one, teach...
New Year’s Resolutions – let your body guide your way
Another year has rolled around and here we are again … reflecting on the year that was, and looking forward to the year that...
Simple tips for travelling light
Many of us travel at this time of the year, and whilst we love our holidays, we can find it stressful travelling to and...
Ten top tips for actually enjoying Christmas
We are counting down the days to Christmas, many of us on overdrive, in overwhelm and exhaustion, made even worse by the ‘need’ to...
The power of communication in medicine
Medicine has a language all of its own – a combination of Ancient Greek, Latin, people’s names, made-up words and acronyms – but what...
Sleep – our daily medicine
Sleep is something that many of us struggle with, and this struggle can affect our whole day, or sleep can be part of our...
Food is medicine, so why do doctors know so little about...
I am a doctor and everything I know about food that is worth knowing, I learnt somewhere other than medical school. We learn so...
The importance of having your own doctor – even when you...
As doctors, we have a tendency to diagnose and treat ourselves when we become ill, which is understandable, but this can get us into...
What is the purpose of exercise?
We all lead very busy lives. We think there are not enough hours in the day to do all the things we need to...
