The idea that understanding is the equivalent of knowledge may seem true, but I found myself examining this position after reading Unity’s post this week. As usual, I try to improve my communication skills regarding patient education in order to promote a better understanding of health within my practice. In my experience, patients need to understand [...]
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Do you undertand anything?
Posted in Life lessons, Patient education, Philosophy, tagged Cacer, Health, Nature, Opinion, Philosophy, Spirituality on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mommy can I have some radioactive cherries please.
Posted in Life lessons, Nutrition, Patient education, Philosophy on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the entire world is preoccupied with the H1N1 “pandemic” and all of its unstated and unmediated divergent opinions, I thought I would bring to the table the issue of ionizing radiation. The Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A. stated that ”The Agency agrees with the conclusions of the Committee of Indian Scientists that the studies with irradiated food [...]
A stroke of insight
Posted in Life lessons, Patient education, tagged Inspiration, Motivation, Neurology, Philosophy on June 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is a very powerful conference that was sent to me by a good friend of mine Dr David Gawain. I always struggled in my practice to get the average patient to recognise the principles that are touched here in this video. It is sometimes very hard to get patients to snap out of the reductionist [...]