Voice and Speech techniques in Communication

IF YOU IGNORE THE FIRST BIT which is a little depressing, like he says, from the middle bit of the talk, it gets interesting and useful...

Try a few consultations with some of these techniques. I will be trying

Stress is harmful, but only if you think it is

If you could teach someone to view stress differently, and favourably, this has a physiological effect on the body and may reduce mortality related to stress.

Selling in medicine

In the past, I have eluded in the blog that we sell health. Daniel Pink who wrote speeches for Bill Clinton bases his book on the growing field of education and medicine. The book is cheap and an easy read.

Specificity in communication, or this... (a comedy video)

Memory scrambling - a way to overcome bad memories

Richard Bandler is one of the Co-Founders of NeuroLinguistic Programming, which has brought us some interesting concepts and terminology. This is an evolved version of one of their more successful interventional techniques that seems to work by scrambling a bad memory. It is best repeated 3 times. Let me know what you think about it - I'm sure there is a memory that you do not need to be emotionally attached to...

Doctors and publishing results

As doctors we can improve outcomes if we publish results and outcomes.

How do you think we can do this in General practice? Wouldn't it be great. I am sure we can share and learn something from other doctors for the good of our patients.

Educational Psychology

This may help you remember more stuff. You can skip to the last 2 minutes where he talks about this.

Process information immediately, link it to past memories, and use visualisation.