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Posts in the Health category:
almost all my writing and Dorothy’s in on health themes – but casting the net wide
more emphasis on health than on illness
Extracts from my new medical memoir
Professional Grief Show me the data that solemnity ever cured anything, Patch Adams, MD There’s a term for it. For the grief that caregivers experience when we lose one of our patients. We call it “professional grief”—a phrase that in its clinical dryness captures the all-too-rare acknowledgment of its very existence. We may be trained […]
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Virtual Book Launch of Singing to the Darkness
Dr. Patricia Vickers is the first Indigenous author to be published by our publishing house, HARP The People’s Press (www.harppublishing.ca). I first learned about Feast Hall writing style in her inquiry, Singing to the Darkness, in which Patricia includes monologues and meditations along with twenty of her original art pieces. Dr. Gabor Maté, author of […]
Yet another review of Blood Work!
This review comes from writer and media maven Denise Davies. Thank you for your generous words, Denise! This novel tells the story of Raig’s development of cancer and all that that entails. How this sixteen-year-old girl comes through a near-death experience, how she finds joy and healing through art and music, how she learns through […]
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Another Review of Blood Work
Blood Work: A Review by Adult Educator Leslee Larsen, December, 2019 I’m delighted to add another review of my YA novel, Blood Work, this one from adult educator Leslee Larsen, who captures the essence of the novel as a chance for what’s called transformative learning. As Leslee illustrates so well, ’Raig, the protagonist of Blood […]
“Blood Work” Reviews
“Blood Work” – New Reviews New York Magazine reports that over sixty percent of Young Adult (YA) books are being bought by people aged eighteen to forty-four. The original target readership for young adult literature—twelve to eighteen—amounts to less than twenty percent of purchasers. So I’m delighted to share with you these recent reviews of […]
HARP: Our new publishing house
HARP Home HARP Publishing, The People’s Press is a multi-media publisher focusing on the healing arts and the arts for health equity. Dorothy and I are co-publishers, and we are focusing on a popular readership of caregivers and care receivers, in both electronic and print media. About Our Logo The acronym, HARP, stands for Healing Arts, Reconciling People. […]
Electromagnetic fields and Us
https://www.collective-evolution.com/2019/02/19/5g-is-the-stupidest-idea-in-the-history-of-the-world-washington-state-biochemistrymedical-science-prof/?fbclid=IwAR1s2O8y-8VqLfCEMFB3R0cjEMETM_8v0XNACcpavYYe98kBrL_2Rf8Gh-w Ever since humans started to fly rockets into outer space, we’ve known that our personal electromagnetic fields can get seriously depleted. And so can that of our mother earth. And that’s exactly what’s been happening ever since the electronic techy revolution got under way. Every one of us on earth is being bombarded with […]
Unheard stories
Art has been a healing force throughout human history. Shamans have always used it to evoke healing power for individuals and whole communities. Our forebears lived at the interface of visible and invisible, and used art to make sense of the universe that surrounded them. And art remains a vital human nutrient. Our world remains […]
First Blood, Hektoen, 2016
First Blood Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, 1970 I’m astounded I’ve landed one of the coveted G.O.S. senior resident jobs: the academic nature of the place immediately daunts me. Everyone bows down to its status as the foremost pediatric research hospital in Europe, perhaps the world, the faculty all confining their work to one or […]