We all know the fees are going up, but the whys and wherefores might not be so obvious. Everything seems to be going up, except, strangely, my income. But why is the GOSC fee going up in particular? Is it just general inflation? Or is there more to it? I tuned in to the recent…
Email SUBSCRIBERS – apologies if you were sent the work-in-progress last week. This is the finished article! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ This post is a brief summary of the famous American Opioid Epidemic – the OxyContin part, anyway. I became hugely interested in it a couple of years ago and read and watched everything I could. If you…
NOTE TO EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS – apologies if you were sent the work-in-progress last week. This is the finished article! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ This post is a brief summary of the famous American Opioid Epidemic – the OxyContin part, anyway. I became hugely interested in it a couple of years ago and read and watched everything I could.…
You might have read “This is Going to Hurt” by Adam Kay, a former doctor. A monster of a bestseller and a funny and enlightening read. You might have even watched the BBC series starring Ben Whishaw, which was a far bleaker experience. My husband bailed halfway through because he found it too uncomfortable to…
OK I have finally got round to my second ever youtube interview, this time with Mary Monro. Mary has written an article on issues facing the profession. It is reproduced below the video, complete with references. The Future of Osteopathy in the UK by Mary Monro Introduction We are at a moment of seismic change…
It’s a big day for me, today, posting my first ever YouTube video. It’s many years now since I had the idea to have a YouTube channel called OsteoFM, but I got engrossed in writing the blog, earning money, then covid happened, then new jobs to get good at…. But today’s the day! A chat…
Am I autistic, or am I just bad at social chitchat and a bit obsessive?Is my husband autistic, or does he just like documentaries about modifying cars? Surely I can’t be the only one who’s pondered questions like these. The good news is that there’s an actually an easy, free, instant way to find out.…
A report from the Osler Lecture, Meeting Minds, 2025, Oxford University. Speaker: Professor Sir Rory Collins, UK Biobank Principal Investigator, and one of TIME Magazine’s top 100 most influential people in health. What is the UK Biobank? I had heard of the UK Biobank before. Along with the Human Genome Project, I was vaguely familiar…
Gut Instinct: Why Microbial Diversity Matters – a talk by Professor Kevin Foster at Meeting Minds 2025, Oxford University I don’t think it will come as a surprise to many manual therapists out there that we are absolutely crawling with microbes (just to get clear on the wording: the word microbe is shorthand for, (and…
Mal-aria Ok, I know a few interesting facts about malaria, I’d call them fun facts but it doesn’t seem very appropriate.. And I know a few facts which are, in fact, extremely serious and sad. I learnt these courtesy of Doctor Mehreen Datoo, at Oxford’s annual Meeting Minds Conference 2025. She is a clinical lecturer…
Insurance might not sound the sexiest subject, but please read this through. It might save you months of stress. It will certainly ensure that your patients are protected in the unlikely event of an injury. This post, I should add, is targeted at osteopaths registered with the General Osteopathic Council in the UK. While it…
Brain surgeon has to be up there with rocket scientist as one of the jobs which sounds like it’s the winner of the Most Impressive Job competition. You have to be very brainy, very skilled, and the stakes are as high as they get. The wonderful thing about this book – Do No Harm –…
In the near future our glasses might be able to advise us on our diet, warn us we might be in the early stages of Parkinson’s, and let us know if we should seek help for our mental health. Yes, by glasses I mean spectacles. Or rather “eyewear”, for the modern reader. Years ago, I…
Edzard Ernst is a leading campaigner against alternative medicine. He is also highly intelligent and hardworking, so is a person of interest to me. As a high profile, dare I say vituperative, critic of complementary therapies, it helps to know what sort of man he is. I won’t say “Know thine enemy”, because I believe…
In a shameless ripoff of the back page of the Sunday Times money section, in which a different person each week was asked questions about their finances and how they managed them, I have decided that this would be a great idea for the blog. Osteopaths can find out about how other osteopaths manage their…
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