Tag: health
Self-care moments: Eating
I love eating food and always have. I have come to understand that there is a purpose to food beyond stimulating and satisfying the senses.
The purpose of food: to satisfy the senses or to nourish...
I recently read an article on the use of food as medicine in cancer patients … it was complicated and left me feeling confused, when I had not been...
National Physician Suicide Awareness Day: We Refuse to Forget
September 17, 2019 was the second annual National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. As I wrote here last year, it is a day to commemorate colleagues lost to suicide and...
World Mental Health Day – true health is for everyone, every day
It was recently (10/10) World Mental Health Day. This is a great initiative, and to be celebrated for raising our awareness of things that need to be at the...
The Clock Is Ticking
In these days of evidence based practice where generally the prize goes to the best evidence money can buy, it is refreshing that occasionally “research” catches up with the...
Do doctors have post-traumatic stress from their training?
I woke early this morning, thinking about an article written by a young female surgeon (1) I had read recently, and I could not go back to sleep. I...
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 is, and all the years...
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 much in medical school, but...
Ten Steps to Self-Care
We hear a lot about self-care these days and think it is probably something we ought to do. We think it has to do with diet, exercise and rest, perhaps with the odd massage and glass of wine thrown in, but true self-care is much deeper than this. In truth, self-care requires a foundation of love and appreciation, for all of who we are.
