Rachel's Blogs
Following The Fenton Fall-Out
I confess I was a chemistry nerd 'way back when', but my skill for stoichiometric calculations had sadly slipped by the time my kids needed help with high-school science & now my son, who's about to graduate from chemical engineering, is my 'chem-friend'...
Made it to 100!
Ok, so maybe I don't quite look like this after 100 episodes & almost a decade of our Update in Under 30 series but sometimes, in the depths of researching & developing each episode I can feel like this! The idea for this subscription series came out of a...
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You’ve Got This…Making Your Own Survival Plans
I am feeling concerned about many of you because chances are, given you're reading this, you're running a small business in healthcare right now. Relax, I am not a ‘Doomsdayer’…I don’t think the current situation has to be the death knell for our clinics and...
What We Learned in Lock Down Last Week…
What does lockdown look like for you? More time spent… A) Learning or B) Losing sleep over things outside of our control or C) Losing days just watching Tik Tok I’m choosing ‘A’ and I know I’m keeping good company because last week many of my ‘nearest and dearest’...
LIVE Q&A With Rachel Arthur
We're keen to keep a bit of normal in all the noise. Are you? Here's another way to keep your collegiate connections connecting and your brain blossoming! Our monthly podcasts are 30 minutes of jam-packed information and here is your opportunity to get more bang for...
Waving Not Drowning?
Yes, the news is - the current regulations may last for a while and as the social-distancing and best-to-stay-at-home message is slowly but surely sinking in. If you're like me, more time 'not out in the world', means more time to get my creative thinking going and...
Helping Patients Achieve Their PB
Listen to me, I'm sounding all sporty 😂. I'm not though, just in case you suffer misguided visions of my virtues! But it's not just the self-declared serious athletes that we need to have on our radar in relation to optimising their oxygen carrying capacity...
what we CAN do
It is a challenging and confusing time for everyone. Yet, as healthcare practitioners, we are needed more than ever, by our clients and our community, to do what we do best *educating *advocating * providing access to medicines * supporting Our friends and esteemed...
I’ve Internalised The Process
Can you hear that? No it's not some weird raucous bird-call. That's me. A fabulous colleague of mine who also happens to be a Master MindMapper (yes it's an official club now😂) , told me a couple of weeks back that practising naturopaths who don't use this...
Are You Being Gaslighted?
Ever suspect you're being gaslighted by your patients' results? Especially when their CRP result says, 'nothing to see here'! But every other piece of information and every one of your senses tell you they're inflamed and their immune system is up to something!! Me...
Are You A Sucker For ‘Secret Herbs & Spices’?!
Me neither. I value transparency in all things impacting my health. So when the 'Colonel' tells us the magic is in not knowing...I think....hmmmmmmm, no thanks! Similarly, when the provider of a test tells us, 'We'd like to give you independent scientific support for...
(Wo)Man Down?
Here's a newsflash: It's only mid-February. And if you're like many of the health professionals I regularly talk to, currently you're feeling something akin to jet-lag but rather than just your circadian rhythm being out of sync, it's bigger than that, it's your...
Is Copper the Culprit in ADHD?
Sometimes I think I must be psychic..or is that psychotic? Don't answer that, it's a bad Byron Bay in-joke. I had literally just recorded my Update in Under 30 Copper in Kids and this excellent new study was published that same week, assessing and comparing trace...
Getting More Bang From Your Patients’ BP
While we may not all be pathology proficient, overwhelmingly we do take or record blood pressure, right? It's such an easy but essential inroad to understand something more about patients' cardiovascular system, and indeed their nervous system, when prone to the...
‘Copper Excess’ In A Child?!….Really??
Copper deficiency happens in kids, so does copper toxicity and both are serious concerns, but do we know when to accurately call either? First, we have to know 'normal'. If we know what normal Serum Copper values look like in children, then we can easily spot those...
In Need Of A Better System?
When you start doing this with your patients' pathology results, you know your client records are turning into a big hot mess and more importantly your ability to see the wood for the trees is seriously under threat! Private labs don't play nicely with one another...
Putting Young Heads on Old Shoulders
Do you know this saying but the other way round? My dad said it often enough and always with such an exasperated tone that it's got its own dedicated lobe in my brain. Almost. Lately, however, I've been reflecting on how much I learn from people younger than me, both...
…& Stop Giving Them Manganese!
It's like that split-second you close the door and realise you've locked the car with the keys still inside, or the whole reason you rang someone pops back into your head just after you put the phone down. Yes after the opportunity to draw breath over the...
Ironing Out Some Old Misunderstandings
It's that time of year when we tend to set our intentions both personally and professionally. For me, between the many meals, pressies and dunks in the river, I slip into some 'silent work'. In particular, I find myself flagging a couple of key areas that I want to...
So, What Kind Of Drunk Are You?
I know, timing, huh?! It's almost like I've been sniffing around your recycling bins but I didn't need to of course, at this time of year it's a fairly safe bet you're madly winding it back a tad from your most outrageous annual alcohol imbibing. And so are all our...
New Goals & Some Good News (At Last!) in Gilbert’s Syndrome
Earlier this year at a Mental Health Training for IM doctors, 3 practitioners (myself, a doctor & a psychiatrist) walked into a bar...not really, but we did each present a case study of challenging patient & in whom we had some great outcomes. All 3...
Dear 2019 Minties (ahem) Mentees
Turn-up the sound, lean back (as there are quite a few names here) and watch it all the way to the end!, Click here and enjoy our little video to honour each of our mintees (aka mentees) in 2019. https://youtu.be/219EbNQhGBI Use the force...... well, maybe...
I Was Wrong
I take my job to heart. When someone asked me recently to choose the single value that spoke most to me personally I couldn't seem to go past, 'Purpose'. I feel very honoured to have contributed to the learning of so many health professionals in their undergraduate...