I often describe my new part-time job – School Bus Driver – as “I drive a Psych Ward” which I then go on to explain that, as in a Psych Ward (at least as shown in film and Television, if not IRL), I get to see folk on the bus who, at times, are not […]

I’ve often thought about the placebo effect – and why it isn’t thoroughly studied and understood? I realise that there are few commercial drivers for such investment but surely improved health outcomes must be worth something. No? I have noticed over the past 15 years or so, that the ‘Wellness’ types with their “Alternative Medicine”

As someone approaching, or having arrived at, old age I am acutely aware of ‘shelf life’. I am now having a life on the shelf – where I have been since turning 60.   In Australia our journalists and commentariat often talk of our Prime Ministers ‘having the shelf life of Yoghurt’. Rudd  – Gillard –