Perceptions of Value In the small pedestrian precinct that houses our herbal training school there are five hairdressers, if I were to count the total number in our town it would take me more time than I care to spend. Both men and women need hairdressers, both to keep tidy and professional, and on occasion, […]
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Mar
It took me a while to realise… I have had a bit of a cold – the sneezing, bone-achy kind where you feel freezing even though the heating is on, you are wearing a jumper and a cardigan, leg warmers, and are wrapped in a blanket with a hot water bottle on your lap. Eventually […]
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Where it all started… I have just accepted a speaking engagement for June. For many entrepreneurs ‘speaking engagement’ might conjure up images of conference halls filled with hundreds of eager high-ticket participants waiting to hear a rousing delivery, and a call to action, and a definite ‘kerching’, etc., etc.. But for me, this speaking engagement […]
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Mar
Life is Just Complicated… I was sitting having lunch with some friends that I don’t see very often, and we talked about many different things. When there was a pause in the conversation the husband leant forward and said to me, ‘I just want to ask your advice on a medical issue.’ My most immediate […]
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Because we may change what we do… I am not a terribly hard worker in many ways. My ‘herbal business’ is not my main focus in life, and I don’t plan my week around selling more tinctures and getting new patients. Not that that is a bad thing in itself, because we all must pay […]
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Mar
When patients don’t need an hour’s appointment When I was training, the only appointment model we were introduced to by the University was the traditional one hour, to one and a half hour, slot that took a case history on the first appointment, and subsequently would spend a fair amount of time at follow ups […]
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Patient expectations of ‘effectiveness’ in health care I came across a couple of articles published in 2009 and 2011 by Christine V Little, and although they were published in different years in different publications and have different titles, they are very similar, and sound like they are discussing the results of the same research. One […]
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Mar
These two people will let you into a secret… These two have done something which I think is special. Back in January I wrote a post called; ‘Shortage of cold medicine is government’s fault’, and in it I encouraged people to try their hands at making their own cough and cold medicine [because it is […]
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This isn’t woo-woo, it’s practical It has been said [and it is mostly true] that herbalists are not natural business people. I know some that are, but trust me, they are in the minority. Most herbalists that I know want to see patients, give talks, teach and so on and often the whole running-the-business-thing gets […]
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Mar
Or I might just be a cup-half-empty person… Somebody told me recently that 80% of herbal medicine students were GPs. I don’t know how this can be so, I don’t know if it is true, and I don’t know how this works. I presume this is a short top-up to what they have already learned […]