Dr Ruth
Woman. Lover of Truth. Engager of People. Ruth has been a doctor for over 20 years. She enjoys nurturing the seeds of true care that lie at the heart of Medicine and exposing the weeds that suffocate its purpose.
Heart-Centred Medicine: A Return to Ancient Wisdom
Would a return to an ‘innermost’ way of life, a heart-centred intelligence and awareness, be something we as physicians, could consider?
Masks: are you wearing one?
It’s 2020. The Year of the Mask. Whether you are a medical professional or not, you will have been asked to wear them, discern their worth, determine which type is best for you, consider their real purpose and deliberate on where you stand with respect to the health benefits they may offer you personally or the population as a whole.
Anxiety in the body – Anxiety in Medicine; Deconstructing our ‘Normal’
Let’s be honest, as doctors and health professionals we learn to live with anxiety in the body. Not all at once perhaps, but by degrees.
Physician Heal Thyself: What Medical Training and the Body have taught...
While it would be nice to pretend otherwise, I did not embark on a career in medicine for altruistic reasons, to earn a good wage or even to gain...
The Contagion of Fear – the Coronavirus Pandemic and Medicine
We are currently in the grip of a worldwide panic over COVID-19, or 2019-nCoV, the novel coronavirus pandemic.
As I write, supermarkets are being stripped of essentials like toilet paper...
