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Editorial Creating space and providing tools for personal development - Hugo Jobst, David Peters & Giskin DayMedical education should be helping us develop as whole people - Jonathan De OliveiraFinding our voice - Karla Maria Hamlet Effective learning can create time for a more complete medical education - Samuel SoeteView from the frontline - Maryam Malik Student stress: what one university is doing to support student wellness - Bruce CryerScratching the surface of the hidden curriculum: the BMJ Student podcast Sharp Scratch - Anna Harvey Bluemel & Charlotte RoseOverprescribing: reimagining medical education with social prescribing champions - Hamaad KhanMedics in the community: developing the tools for effective social prescribing - Hugo Jobst & Andrea WilliamsonSo much goes missing when we work online - Andrew ZhouThe missing link: human interconnection in online learning - Anamika Pereira PaiCompassion – walking the walk, who does the talk? - Louise YounieExploring the human dimension in medicine - Sivakami SibiChallenges for learning about planetary health - Anna Moore & Rosa Caitlin Jones HughesRe-conceiving professionalism in a time of crisis - Vidya NanthakumarYoga for medical student wellbeing - Ellie GraceResearch -
Editorial Update A new transatlantic collaboration – BHMA and the Integrative Health Institute - Bruce Cryer & David Peters Integrative medicine – an introduction - David Peters The living gap – bridged by life-compassion: first order principles for healing the crises of our planet, its peoples, and you - David Reilly Social prescribing: holism in action - Mike Dixon & David Peters The Humanising Healthcare Forum: A response to the latent desire for more meaning in medicine - Hugo Jobst Multidisciplinary rehabilitation in complex pain – an anthroposophic approach - David McGavin Is acupuncture just NICE enough? Why is acupuncture now recommended for chronic pain but not for back pain? - Mike Cummings Psychedelics and meditation, part 1: research on potential synergy - James Hawkins An open letter of love and care to health care professionals with resilience strategies for the Covid-19 war - Thomas Skovholt & Michelle Trotter-Mathison William House Research -
Editorial Death and the newly qualified doctor Marina Malthouse Living well, dying well Hermione Elliott Shame: healthcare's unmeasurable undertows David Zigmond Hama - grieving a place I've never been Maria Najlah The transformational impact of awareness-centred deep-listening training Annabel Park & Helen Selka Riding the waves of grief - a spiritual perspective Annie Blampied-Radojcin Between loss and life: making space for grief Marianne Rosen Posession Reverent Peter Owen Jones Facilitating healthy deaths at scale Paul Thomas Grief and bereavement - Reflections from the Grenfell tower fire and the Covid-19 pandemic Paquita de Zulueta Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking - And end of life doula's experience Alizoun Dickinson Climate grief, doctors, ecological distress and our disconnect from nature Prem Jeyapaul & David Peters Climate justice in primary care - A poem and reflection on the theme of greenhouse gases leading to respiratory diseases Cian Patel A celebration of change making - BHMA conference 2024 David Peters Doctors and death Jonathon Tomlinson Reviews Research -
Editorial The shadow side of flourishing: reclaiming the human in healthcare Louise Younie Facing my shadow in medicine healing the wounded healer Andrew Tresidder Blindfolds Elicia Elliot Life on the line Sarah Saunders I want to be white Seema Pattni Our Kintsugi soapboxes Leah Jane Henniker An ache I can’t medicate Georgina Haffner Crash Emmanuel Oladipo The crow George Lyons The unheard pulse Sami Akhtar Bibi Am I good enough? Arming yourself against uncertainty Emily Taylor 20/25 vision: medical students in the blindspot Yael Berenblut Only connect, live in fragments no longer Kathleen Wenaden Three conversations about shadows in healthcare: career crisis, numbing and deprivation David Peters The abject Jonathan Tomlinson The global crisis and the arising of the ecological self Joanna Macy Reviews Facing the shadow: some useful ideas -
Love’s labours lost Why society is straitjacketing its professionals and how we might release them Iona Heath Building resilient neighbourhoods with small doses of kindness Syeda Akhtar Self-compassion and resilience for healthcare professionals Kai Krüger A simple model to find patient hope for positive lifestyle changes: GRIN Jen Unwin and David Unwin Realistic hope – and its role in keeping us resilient in times of crisis Catherine Zollman with Jennie Evans Activating hope in times of unravelling Chris Johnstone Can life in a former chocolate factory be infused with faith, hope and love? Lisa Loveridge There is no ‘I’ without ‘we’ in palliative care Marina Malthouse Mother, magic or medicine? The psychology of the placebo David Zigmond Faith discrimination in the NHS: Multiple penalties facing Muslim doctors Hina J Shahid Medical schools’ duty of care and the future of medicine Wassim Merzougui & Saleh Jawad -
Social prescription: coming up for air Social prescribing and the development of the ‘evidence base’ Compassionate Frome – working towards a more connected community The true potential of social prescribing Social prescribing – a layman’s perspective Social prescribing for equality and resilience: the SPEAR project Parkrun: stories of inspirational people Social prescribing in London – a GP perspective Sing with Us – the benefits of arts and social prescribing Rediscovering human-nature connectedness through social prescribing Arts on prescription – five steps to success The beauty of being an ‘outsider’ Health creation and social prescribing … what’s the difference? Whither social prescribing? The Fife Shine programme Social prescribing – are drugs or people the better cure? Plus • Update • Research • Reviews -
Editorial - The pandemic makes our old stories redundant Obituary - Craig Brown – a life guided by healing and whole-person care Ante-thanatos care – a holistic approach for preparing for the end of life - Craig Brown Medical education’s changing story - Clare Gerada Creative words for health and wellbeing - Larry Butler Expressive writing - James Hawkins The golden thread - Maria Hancock Uncertainty and resilience – a medical student’s story - Max Williamson Crossing the threshold: my story of liminality - Michael Zervos What can anthroposophic psychotherapy contribute to our understanding of human distress and sickness? - John Lees Language is not just data: it is a custodian of our humanity - David Zigmond Schwartz Rounds - Paquita de Zulueta Some reflections on stories in general practice - Andrew Morrice Annual resilience symposium for medical teachers William House Reviews -
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Burnout and the fiery path to reconnection - Emma Presern
Sage practices: the interstitium of care - Jane Myat & Laura Marshall-Andrews
Relationships and power are keys to good health - Brian Fisher
Reframing health - Margaret Hannah
Holistic healthcare in action: reflections on the past, directions for the future - Daniela Krouzkova
The renewal of healthcare: is integrative medicine the future of care? - Elizabeth Thompson
Supporting cardiac recovery and renewal in the woods - Georgina Huntington & Rachel Tomlinson
Training the future health care workforce: a collaborative effort? - Linda Lang, John Spicer & Sanjiv Ahluwalia
Schwarz Rounds for students - Michael Zervos & Alyssa Dunlop
What lights the heart - Sereen Mohamed Khalfan Mohamed Alyammahi
Nightmare - Nithya Balchandra
How to talk with River - Peter Reason
Renewal - Peter Owen Jones
Seeds of renewal from wild land-oriented rites of passage - Jeremy Thres
Five shifts for thrutopian wellbeing - Chris Johnstone
Labour’s plans for the NHS: ideas, concerns and expectations - Jonathan Tomlinson
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Editorial Holistic medicine. New map, old territory Patrick C Pietroni Co-creating healthy communities in the polycrisis Peter J Whitehouse and David Peters 21st century health and care needs - Changing patterns of disease and understandings of health to inform the shape of health and care in the 21st century Margaret Hannah Our journey of hope towards wellbeing for our patients ourselves and our planet Helen Kingston and Tim Rigg Why carers can catalyse community-oriented integrated practice Paul Thomas Jettisoned communities: The broken heart of NHS healthcare - The human and economic cost of our industrialised reforms David Zigmond Whole person medicine: a community of doctors discovering a new way to practice Peter Reason Recovery communities: shifting the culture of addictions medicine Hugo Jobst ‘The impact is palpable’ – how upturning healthcare is serving East Surrey Gillian Orrow Neolympics: changing the leadership game Trevor Thompson Research