Have you heard the joke?
When is the time to get empathy from a doctor?
Before they’ve gone to medical school.
Boom. Boom.
Well actually it’s not a joke at all. It’s a researched fact, and not a very funny fact either.
Evidence has been building that shows a steady decline in empathy in doctors as they go through their […]
Fake pills and treatments are such wonderful things.
They work roughly 30% of the time, on almost anything.
With the technical term of ‘placebos’ they are the gold standard treatment against which every other treatment is measured.
And the whole field is shrouded in mystery.
Why do blue placebos make people more sleepy, while red placebos keep people more […]
The commotion over the study that said anti-depressants are a waste of time for all but the most severely depressed people, has continued to escalate.
It hit the middle editorial pages of my local city’s newspaper, and that means the story is big!
Much of the criticism that I have read of this study has been badly […]
A man came to me for hypnotherapy because he was vomiting. Not just any vomiting either. He had had to be hospitalized and rehydrated.
His doctor’s couldn’t find a cause, so they did what doctor’s do when they can’t explain something. They suspect it’s in your head, give it an impressive label like psychogenic hyperemesis, and […]
There are so many people claiming the titles of Depression, or Bi-Polar these days.
There are certainly companies who spend a lot of time and money telling us that every possible emotion, other than a sort of flat-lined acceptance of inevitability is an illicit symptom of a pathology.
If your life seems dull and pointless, and you […]
When people come to me and complain about headaches, they usually are quick to suspect their headaches are caused by stress or some psychological worry.
After all if they thought their headaches were caused by something physical, that a physiotherapist could fix for example, they wouldn’t be seeing a psychological self help guy in the first […]
Survey after survey of doctors says that they don’t think that gifts influence their behavior.
Study after study says they are totally wrong.
The big pharmaceutical companies spend millions upon billions on advertising and promoting to doctors and one of the biggest ways they do so is by using gifts of all types.
Sometimes it’s pens, sometimes it’s […]