Intro to me and coeliac disease
May 17, 2012
When you tell someone you’re a coeliac, you’re often met with a blank stare followed by questions such as “is that got something to do with seals?”, “is that one of those funny religious cults?”, “excuse me?”. It’s when you … Continue reading
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May 16, 2012
At first I was on the pink cloud of Euphoria with my sobriety. Everything in those initial weeks was clean and fresh. There was so much I wanted to prove, and so much I wanted to do. All the hiding … Continue reading
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May 16, 2012
An amazingly insightful blog post from the wonderful Carrie Arnold at ed bites, containing one of the greatest pieces of advice. You can’t think your way out of a disorder that you behaved your way into. This insight is incredibly helpful … Continue reading
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Online Clinic on Skin Cancer and Sun Safety
May 16, 2012
talkhealth in partnership with NHS Choices, Skcin and Factor 50 have today launched an Online Clinic on Skin Cancer and Sun Safety. Clinical experts including Dr Andrew Wright, Dr Jonathan Bowling Clinical Nurse Specialist Saskia Reeken and Speciality Nurse Deborah Mills … Continue reading
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May 15, 2012
The study, published in the British Journal of Dermatology, looked at 148 cases of delusional infestation. This is a surprisingly common and debilitating condition where the patient believes that parts of their body or their environment are infested either by … Continue reading
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May 15, 2012
Over the last 2 weeks I have noticed a dramatic increase in back pain patients. This is due to what I call…’Binge Gardening!’ the weather as we all know has been terrible, so all gardening and manual labour outside has … Continue reading
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May 15, 2012
These words will forever be ingrained in my mind! My nan would say this on a regular basis when I was a child. Although she meant it lovingly and said the scratching in a very exaggerated way, she even added … Continue reading
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Back to basics – putting the patient back into center court
May 15, 2012
I remember standing on a line in a Barnes and Nobles store in Manhattan about 15 years ago and picking up a slim book of Michael Jordan’s autobiography. I actually read the entire book while waiting in the queue … Continue reading
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Is a diagnosis necessarily a good thing?
May 13, 2012
A neurologist is quoted on an online forum as saying to someone who was impatient about the fact that it was taking her so long to obtain a diagnosis: ‘no diagnosis is better than a wrong diagnosis’. So here we … Continue reading
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