Following the completion of the November 2018 UCT course in The Provision of Expert Opinion and Evidence as a Health Professional, I was asked whether one could attend a one day workshop focused on medico-legal report writing only, rather than…
The four minutes it took to watch the video link below whilst searching for illustrative material to be included in an upcoming workshop, were well spent and enormously powerful. When one works with incapacity, disability, ill-health and trauma in an…
There is a striking moment during the café scene in the movie Before Sunset in which the leading actress Julie Delpy, playing the role of Céline, describes how her brain was ‘free from the consuming frenzy’ while living in the foreign and…
Burnout is neither a new concept, nor a new experience to many who work in the demanding environment of healthcare. There is any number of articles and studies to be found on the subject when one carries out a Google…
Do you see the duck or the rabbit? One of the greatest lessons learned during my professional career to date is that there is always another way to look at things - and the same set of facts can be…
Dignity, disability and life insurance – facilitating the balance