Chosen excerpts from All In Your Head: What Happens When Your Doctor Doesn't Believe You? by Marcus Sedgwick. Marcus Sedgwick arrived in children's and young adult fiction with a bang. His debut novel Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001, and what followed was a body of work that…
An excerpt from the eye-opening book by Marcus Sedgwick. Click on the cover to learn more * My usual, excellent GP, who I’ll call Dr Beattie because that was her name, was on sabbatical. In her place was a medical student from the University Hospital. She would not yet be…
An excerpt from Patients First: How to Save the NHS by Lord Turnberg. Click on the cover to learn more The whole edifice of the NHS heavily depends on how we care for people in the community. Social care – provided in care homes and at home – overlaps with…
An excerpt from the acclaimed book - Master Your Chronic Pain: A Practical Guide - by Dr Nicola Sherlock Click on the cover to learn more Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain: Learn how to Work with your Thoughts and Manage the Stories in your Mind We have talked…
An excerpt from: Click on the cover to learn more One of the reasons the population is proud to be British is possession of the NHS. The way in which it was set up to provide health care without any restrictions on the ability to pay remains a concept that…
* You may be reading this not for yourself, but because you have concerns about a member of the family, a friend, or another loved one. It may well be alcohol is not just one of the problems in any given life, it could well be that the problem in…
* A physiotherapy colleague of mine was doing some cross-country running in a local forest. He was running alone but had his new dog with him. He tripped on a branch and fell badly. Immediately, he felt pain in his ankle and knew he had injured himself, but fortunately, the…
July 13th 2020 I had an appointment at the LRI today to get feedback on the biopsy of the removed mole. I was taken to the LRI by Catherine, and I remember wondering what might come my way and what the consequences could be. I had no real idea what…
Marcus Sedgwick was an award-winning British writer who passed away in November 2022 in France. Writing in YA, Science Fiction, and Non-Fiction genres (amongst others), he burst onto the scene with Floodland (which won the 2001 Branford Boase Award) and also achieved acclaim with The Foreshadowing, She Is Not Invisible,…
From Chapter 5 of... Managing stress, fear, and anxiety Stress, fear, and anxiety are terms that are often used interchangeably, and which can have similar impacts on your body, but there are differences that are worth understanding. Figuring out which ones you are experiencing will help you deal with them…