From a young age we have been conditioned to believe that sleep is associated with a healthy mind. Most of the research around sleep looks at the negative effects of not getting enough sleep in the traditional way – lying down and in the darkness hours. Do we have unrealistic expectations of sleep? Sleep deprivation […]
Month: July 2019
What should a clinician wear when consulting with a patient? For many years the answer was simple: a white coat. A long one, if you were qualified, and a short one if you were in training. The white coat symbolized the clinician’s authority; until authority became a non-starter for some clinicians, such as psychiatrists and […]
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