I have a different view of the brain to most people, not least because back in the 1980s I trained as a neurosurgeon (brain surgery). When you see the impact of brain damage at close quarters, get to know people before and after their surgery, and see how the brain and person recovers from brain … [Read more…]
Daniel Blake did not see the worst of the benefits system
Doctors see lots of unhealthy people. Their patients are generally overweight, on long term medication, in pain and depressed. That is the nature of modern illness and that is what doctors perceive as ‘normal illness’. Unless, of course, you are a private doctor, whose clientele are likely to be in significantly better shape. If they … [Read more…]
This is the title of my next book – maybe. It is the working title. The human brain can go in many ways. The cleverness of Western medicine is partly in its method of categorising problems; wrong development, wrong programming, injury, infection, poisoning, deficiency or lack of essential components, and finally degeneration and disuse. There … [Read more…]
What is the difference between bipolar disorder and, for example, borderline presonality disorder? One is a mental illness, the other a development disorder. Mental illness, as with other illnesses are caused by one or more of the following 1 – Injury, which includes traumas, emotional and physical, as well as stress as well as medical … [Read more…]
There is a phrase about severely worm-infested furniture, that it is only in one piece because the woodworms hold hands. The same might be said for modern medicine. ‘Medical Science’ only holds together because doctors worldwide have agreed not to challenge its overall hegemony Even those few doctors who go it alone and challenge medical practice … [Read more…]
Fig 1. Field irrigation Neuropathic pain is constant pain, that doesn’t seem to get any better, whatever you do What causes it? Lots of things – only a few of which have been identified One of the commonest causes of neuropathic pain is Diabetes. High blood sugar damages the nerves (causing neuropathy – medical words … [Read more…]
First – this is not a paid for advertisement The London Imaging Centre does not even know my name. However they do offer a prompt, efficient, money drive service and that is not all bad. Second – You need an MRI scan if you have a significant (time off work or sport) injury Step 1 – Which part … [Read more…]
Get your neck scanned for 200 puounds
If you need an operation you need it now – not in two years time when you reach the top of your local NHS waiting list. While you are waiting, your condition worsens, your muscles weaken, and your health deteriorates. Those people who either pay their local surgeon to do something that is part of his … [Read more…]