April 4th, 2009

Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the practice of integrating clinical experience and patient values with the best available research information to optimize patient outcomes.

A healthcare provider concluding on a clinical decision through EBM can be akin to a financial analyst concluding on a business model. A balance sheet of benefits and harms is drawn up based on a combination of research findings and the patient’s unique circumstances and the clinician then makes an informed decision in the best interest of the patient’s outcome.

Incorporating the best available research information is key to EBM decision-making and involves four essential steps:

November 8th, 2008

End Fear of Flying with Hypnotherapy

To completely avoid all airplane journeys is to give in to this totally irrational fear and allow it to control your life. With good hypnotherapy, you can free yourself from this truly debilitating fear.

Whenever I fly, I usually have no difficulty in spotting those anxious fellow travellers who are suffering from a real fear of taking an airplane and being airborne. Their nervous expressions and shaky appearance soon tells me that they are experiencing a very real fear of flying.

Fear of flying is indeed a very common phobia. Together with the fear of spiders and the fear of public speaking, fear of flying is the most common phobia there is.


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