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Using the Socratic Method on the debate about passive treatment
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH “He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” ― Michel de Montaigne All my life I’ve been fascinated by philosophy, the complex world in which we live and the questions it poses to us. About 7 years ago I started studying complexity and…
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Forget ‘pain’ let’s start talking about the ‘person’
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” – T.S. Elliot. In my blog around whether passive treatments cause harm, I made the point that we need to be cautious around dividing complex problems into dichotomies. Interestingly, whilst many people seemed to get the…
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Understanding Harm (& Value)
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH Fresh off the back of my last blog, there is another discussion regarding what constitutes harm in a healthcare setting taking part as somewhat of a national conversation. Discussion is focused around the contextual definition, and specifically related to overt and obvious acts that lead to harm. However, something that…
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Do Passive Treatments Cause Harm?…
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH Before I became a Physio I completed a degree in Health, Exercise, and Behaviour Change. I focused almost entirely on human psychology and spent my placements with Clinical Psychologists working with people with Obesity, Complex/Chronic Pain, CFS. When studying Physiotherapy, I was lucky to be part of an excellent course…
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Do Physiotherapists get ‘too attached’ to their title?
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH During the #physiotalk tweet chat tonight, an interesting discussion developed. Many Physios, as they often do, began to tweet about how proud they are to be a Physio, how it define’s them and how important it is for them to identify as a ‘Physiotherapist’. It was supposed to be…
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In support of ‘balanced argument’
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH I read with interest the blog written by Nish Manek in ‘Pulse Today.’ It was an articulate and balanced view, offering a different insight into a world (NHS England) that many readers will not have been party to. It was a clear attempt to set aside the ‘anti-establishment’ rhetoric, that…
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Achieving a ‘yes’ to change
Author: Carl Davies Follow @CarlDaviesPH Recently I’ve been asked how I managed to get a ‘yes’ decision to major transformational change, in a climate of significant financial pressure. The answer is more complex and requires more discussion than can be written into a blog, but I thought presenting some simple considerations for dealing with complex…
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