Sarah's Health Notes: Reaching Out…
We hadn’t seen each other for ten years but, as my dear friend Ben remarked, ‘it felt like no time at all’. He is an old friend both in age (84) and how long we’ve known each other – about 40 years. W...
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Editorial - Sarah Stacey's Health Notes
Sarah’s Health Notes: Feeling anxious? Get doodling…
Click through to a site called Medical News Today and you might not expect to find an article headed ‘What to know about anxiety and drawing’. Unless, that is, you are one of the many millions of peop...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Drink water please….
Factoid: about 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and, in a neat bit of evolutionary symmetry, the percentage of water in the human body varies from 45-75% according to age, gender...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Learning To Listen
Over 40 years ago, I first understood that listening could be as important as talking in helping someone – in fact even more so. I was a recovering alcoholic in AA (the 12-step programme Alcohol...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Beyond Pills Campaign
This article first appeared in The TelegraphMedicines do people a lot of good but they can also cause harm, according to the recent National Overprescribing Review, which found that 10% of drugs are u...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Why We All Need Vitamin N For Nature
It seems fitting with Chelsea Flower Show coming into full bloom this week to think about one of my favourite poems simply called The Garden by 17th century English poet Andrew Marvell. He wrote about...
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