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[TW//Anaphylactic Shock, Near Death, Hospitalisation, Stress] Matt Follows was a workaholic, addicted to stress, adrenaline, cortisol and an unhealthy lifestyle. Matt worked in advertising and was obsessed with winning awards and nothing else. Eventually he paid the price when he had a massive anaphylactic shock on the set of a Diet Coke shoot. Luckily for Matt, they were filming opposite Middlesex Hospital and thanks to the high speed driving of the line producer on the job he was rushed into the ICU and pumped full of weapon-grade adrenaline to stop his blood pressure crashing through the floor and stopping his heart. He was in the prime of his life but the toxic stress and alcohol had battered his immune system and opened up a sea of rage. That brush with death happened on a Friday afternoon and by Sunday morning he was back at his desk. Matt is about to take you on an incredible journey of how to positively manage work, stress, adrenaline & cortisol. Matt will show you how to keep stress levels low and have sustainable high performance. Matt shares ground breaking new science around sleep and even how to win, learn and optimize your life before bedtime! Not only that you will become pressure positive, boost your self esteem and eliminate imposter syndrome for good! These topics only scratch the surface of a thoroughly entertaining and informative hour spent with the lovely Matt. For over 28 years Matt has worked with, led and now coaches some of the most well-known and highly-respected leaders in the world, including Chief Creative Officers, CEO's, boards of directors, 7-figure-founders, corporate presidents and Hollywood A-listers. Prior to pressure proofing brains and eliminating the subconscious bullshit holding people back, he was an Executive Creative Director in London and Sydney where he helped build and run creative departments for some of the biggest and most influential brands on the planet, including Nike, Virgin, Apple and Google. Today, as well as being a Peak Performance Psychologist and executive coach for some of the sharpest, smartest, most prolific creative brains in the business, he trains leaders and teams at Fox, National Geographic, Toyota, Lexus, Universal, Maxis, and Westfield, where he upskills everyone from the sharpest CEO to the greenest grad. In addition to gaining a raft of traditional coaching qualifications Matt graduated from King's College London with a first in Clinical Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy and is a Master Practitioner of NLP as well a CBT therapist, an EMDR practitioner, an advanced EFT coach and a Master Trainer in Advanced Conversation Hypnosis. After more than 30,000 hours of 1:1 and group coaching sessions he's created a completely unique approach to coaching and therapy that he calls the Magic Bullet Method®. Topics - 0:00 Intro 3:11 Matt's rock bottom 4:38 Stress, adrenaline & cortisol addiction 9:37 The effects of long term stress 12:52 Workaholism & alcohol misuse 18:56 How to keep stress levels low and have sustainable high performance 24:18 How to get a good night's sleep 30:06 Win, learn optimise before bedtime 33:00 Being pressure positive 38:04 Why are creative brains more likely to have poor mental health? 40:09 How do you separate sense of worth from your job? 53:24 How to boost your self esteem 56:57 Being able to wear different 'hats'. 58:13 Why are creatives more prone to Imposter Syndrome? 01:02:17 How to stop comparing yourself negatively with other people 01:03:30 How to reach out for help This Podcast is not for profit but my goal is to break even. To help me make more please donate here. Thank you! https://bit.ly/3kSucAs You can get immediate access to over 300 of these videos when you follow or connect with Matt on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattfollows Newsletter - https://leadingleft.com/newsletter Listen or watch on:  Apple - https://apple.co/3PajZvQ YouTube - https://bit.ly/45N8EqJ

George Chapman, who died in 2006, was brought up in the working-class docklands area of Merseyside, Liverpool. He worked variously as a docker, a firefighter, and he was a professional boxer. Maurice Barbanell, former Fleet Street newspaper editor once remarked about Chapman; ‘When Spiritualism's history comes to be written, the Lang/Chapman partnership, which has brought health to thousands of sufferers after their cases were called “hopeless”, will contribute some of its most illumined pages', and this will shortly be explained. During World War II Chapman became an Air Force Commander and then he joined Marines, where he taught unarmed combat. He met his wife Margaret in 1945 and they had a daughter Vivian, but sadly she died just 4 weeks after her birth. This tragedy caused Chapman to consider, was there an afterlife? In search of answers, he turned to the Clergy, but they warned him not to dabble ‘in the supernatural.' After the War, Chapman joined the Fire Brigade where he met a fellow fireman called Leslie Miles. On the long nightshifts between emergency calls, Miles would experiment with an upturned tumbler and the letters of the alphabet, in an attempt to receive messages from the spirit world, and it wasn't long before the rest of the fire crew, their curiosity fully aroused, joined in with him. Soon, they were all sitting around the table at night at the fire station, putting their fingers on the glass and watching it move from letter to letter to spell out words and phrases. Meanwhile at home, Chapman began to do the same thing with his wife, and before long he was stunned to receive a message purportedly from his dead mother, who had died when he was just 5 years old. Of course, he needed to check that he wasn't simply deluding himself, and so he asked his relatives to see if what his dead mother had told him could be verified. To his surprise, his relatives confirmed it all to be completely correct. This helped Chapman to believe that there really could be life-after-death and he began to spend a couple of hours at home every day trying to receive more messages from spirits. To his surprise, many of the messages they gave him told him that he was a healer. As well as being a fireman, Chapman was a professional boxer. How on earth could he be a healer then, he wondered to himself? He had to find out more and so soon he put together a development circle with likeminded people, where further spirit messages repeated to him that he was a healer. Spirits were coming through Chapman – even though he had no idea at the time because he had gone into trance and was completely oblivious to it. The spirits were healers too, they said, and they were going to work with him. According to Chapman's later biography, ‘One of the spirits was introduced to us as Dr. Lang.' Dr. Lang told them that Chapman would be working with him to heal sick patients. Of course, Chapman didn't take this as fact; after all, it sounded completely incredulous, and firstly, he wanted to know if a Dr. Lang had even ever really existed. He wanted absolute proof. ‘Too many alleged spirit guides do not stand up to critical exam,' he wrote, and the spirit communicating with them, ‘should be able to give dates, names, and details of his earthly experiences.' Dr. Lang duly went on to give names, dates, places, for the purpose of verification, and Chapman began to check them out.  ‘There were colleagues of Lang still in practice. There were also patients who had consulted him while he was a surgeon on earth…they confirmed that it was the same Dr. Lang they had known.' Pretty soon, Chapman began to do what the spirits were urging him to do – to become a healer and treat people, and he set up a clinic at his home in Aylesbury. One of his patients was a Dr. Kildare Singer, who had been taught ophthalmology by Dr. Lang at the Middlesex Hospital and was suffering with cancer. When Dr. Singer came to hear that people were visiting Chapman to receive spiritual he...

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Patrick Carroll, a member of the Hims & Hers board and is Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Carroll oversees all matters pertaining to provision of care, clinical outcomes, patient safety, healthcare information systems and strategic initiatives and programs to enhance the Hims & Hers care model. In addition, Dr. Carroll is instrumental in managing relationships with health systems and collaborating with the executive team in the development of new clinical programs.Prior to joining Hims & Hers in June of 2019 Dr. Carroll was the Group Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Walgreens. Over his 5 year tenure he oversaw retail clinics, healthcare strategy, health system collaborations, quality programs as well as the development of the Walgreens Neighborhood Health Destination initiative. Prior to joining Walgreen's in May 2014, Dr. Carroll served as the Chief Medical Officer of Integrated Care Partners, Hartford HealthCare's clinical integration organization. He was also the Medical Director for Hartford HealthCare's Medicare Shared Savings Program which currently has over 20,000 patients in a Medicare/CMS shared-risk pilot program. He played a key role in leading the Hartford HealthCare's efforts in the transition to value-based care in a time of a rapidly changing healthcare landscape.From 2010–2012, Dr. Carroll served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Granite Medical Group in Quincy, Massachusetts. Granite Medical Group is a 40-provider Multi-specialty/Primary Care Group which is part of Atrius Health, a 1000 Medical Provider Group. Dr. Carroll received his bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross and his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School. He completed his residency training at Middlesex Hospital in family practice, where he served as Chief Resident.Dr. Carroll is Board Certified in Family Practice and in Adolescent Medicine.Topics to discuss -- Career Background: Dr. Carroll's experience at Walgreens and his journey to being Chief Medical Officer of Hims & Hers. Additionally, he can share insights from his decades of experience in private practice and how that showed him many of the challenges of the traditional system. Overview of Hims & Hers + growth of telemedicine:  Providing a high-level description of Hims & Hers, plus the company's mission and vision to reshape the healthcare system and expand access to high-quality care. Additionally, he can share a brief description of how consumers access care through the Hims & Hers platform. Discussing Hims & Hers' journey as a company, including its recent growth -- especially since the pandemic -- and expansion from ED and hair loss, to primary care, mental health, dermatology and other services. Discussing how the pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption more broadly and why both asynchronous and synchronous telehealth modalities can provide people with a safe, trusted and a convenient way to get care. How Hims & Hers builds trust and ensures patient safetySharing some high-level points about Hims & Hers' homegrown EHR and how the company ensures care quality. The future of medicine + Hims & Hers' focus on personalized treatments Discussing Pat's view on why the healthcare system is at a critical inflection point where patients are looking for new front doors to care for a wide variety of conditions. Discussing, at a high level, how Hims & Hers is focusing on personalized healthcare treatments. How telehealth companies like Hims & Hers can integrate with the traditional healthcare system -- and why that's great for patient experience, continuity of care and ultimately better outcomes.Dr. Carroll can share how providers on the Hims & Hers platform can support a wide variety of conditions, but when care is needed that is not supported, Hims & Hers has partnerships with many well-known, high-quality health systems (e.g. Privia, Ochsner, ChristianaCare, Carbon Health, etc.) Guest - Dr. Patrick Carroll is a member of the Hims & Hers board and is Chief Medical OfficerHost - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBAwww.hillaryblackburn.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/  @talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook @HillBlackburn Twitter ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On this week's episode I enjoy a conversation with Joanna Kippax as part III of the sleep series. Joanna is a certified sleep practitioner, completing her training at Oxford University, Southampton University and the Children's sleep charity in Sheffield. She trained as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) at The Middlesex Hospital in London in 1986, and as a Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN) at The Westminster Hospital, London in 1989. Most of Joanna's career has been spent working for the NHS in London and Hereford. She is also a member of The British Sleep Society, and a founder member of The British Society of Pharmacy Sleep Services (BSPSS). During these years, Joanna has seen the negative impact and frustration that sleep disorders such as insomnia brings to peoples' lives. She utilised this experience and knowledge to branch out from the NHS and develop her own practice called Wye Sleep where she provides specialist sleep health services to individuals and groups. Clients report having more energy, improved mood and concentration and no longer find themselves thinking about sleep during their day, after completing the programme. The tools learned bring about long term, sustainable change, without the use of sleeping medication. Sleep health is an emerging field and Joanna continues to keep up to date with the new research being published, passing this information onto her clients. She is passionate about her work and finds informing and supporting her clients to make alterations that can be life changing, so rewarding. We hear all about her passion for helping people with sleep disorders and she focuses part of our conversation on specific tips for improving your sleep and why these are valuable for you. Examples include: - waking up at the same time of day - expose yourself to morning light - building your sleep drive - wind down routine Joanna is also the founder and director of The Sleep Retreat. This is a two day luxury sleep retreat where you learn how to sleep better using practical tools, feel more energised and refreshed, and enjoy a boutique hotel in the process! She is currently in the process of organising a 2022/2023 retreat and details will be on her website linked above. Instagram: @Wyesleep Facebook: @Wyesleep Twitter: @WyeSleep LinkedIn: @Joanna Kippax Website: Wye Sleep Facebook: @BritishSleep BSPSS website

**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: Learn more about this episode's Super-friend, Noshene Ranjbar, at https://www.linkedin.com/in/noshene-ranjbar-2039949 ~~~~ Hosted by Dr. Carol Penn, DO, & Diem Jones this exciting 10-part Series, now in Season 9, is presented by Penn Global Visions and Dr. Carol's team of Super-friends as we explore the worlds of: weight loss; weight loss maintenance; aging in reverse; heart health; optimizing health and well being. Weightless with Dr. Carol Penn, is designed to assist each participant in the journey of outrageous self-care and how to prioritize themselves on behalf of achieving their best and highest self. Over the course of our show you will learn how to balance your Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system. Tune in to this episode as we discuss "The Medicine of Brain Health" with superfriend Noshene Ranjbar. Produced by: Kenya Pope, http://goddess.kenyapope.com ~~~~ Featured Guest: Noshene Ranjbar, M.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, where she serves as Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Training Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Fellowship (https://psychiatry.arizona.edu/academic-programs/integrative-psychiatry-fellowship), and Medical Director of the Integrative Psychiatry Clinic (https://psychiatry.arizona.edu/patient-care/banner-university-medicine-integrative-psychiatry-clinic). In addition, she is also Fellowship Faculty with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (www.azcim.org) and faculty with The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (www.cmbm.org). Born and raised in Iran, Noshene Ranjbar moved to the U.S. as a teen and completed undergraduate and medical education at the University of Virginia followed by internship in Family Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut and involvement with research at Yale University. She completed Psychiatry Residency at University of Arizona, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and Integrative Medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona. Her academic interests include integrative psychiatry, physician well-being and burnout, mind-body medicine, and health disparities with focus on Native American and refugee health. She serves as a volunteer psychiatrist for evaluating asylum seeking individuals with the Arizona Asylum Network and the Florence Project, and is active in the MIND clinic, a free mental health clinic at the University of Arizona serving immigrant and underserved families. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-penn/support

**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: For more information or to Register for Dr. Carol's 90-Day Wildfit Program...send an email to info@drcarolpenn.com with "WildFit" in the subject line. Contact this episode's Super-friend, Dr. Noshene Ranjbar at https://www.linkedin.com/in/noshene-ranjbar-2039949 ~~~~ Hosted by Dr. Carol Penn, DO, & Diem Jones this exciting 10-part Series, now in Season 8, is presented by Penn Global Visions and Dr. Carol's team of Super-friends as we explore the worlds of: weight loss; weight loss maintenance; aging in reverse; heart health; optimizing health and well being. Weightless in Mind Body and Spirit, is designed to assist each participant in the journey of outrageous self-care and how to prioritize themselves on behalf of achieving their best and highest self. Over the course of our show you will learn how to balance your Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system. Tune in to this episode as we discuss "Brain Health in Mind, Body & Spirit" with Super-friend, Dr. Noshene Ranjbar. Produced by: Kenya Pope, http://goddess.kenyapope.com ~~~~ Featured Guest: Noshene Ranjbar, M.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, where she serves as Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Training Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Fellowship (https://psychiatry.arizona.edu/academic-programs/integrative-psychiatry-fellowship), and Medical Director of the Integrative Psychiatry Clinic (https://psychiatry.arizona.edu/patient-care/banner-university-medicine-integrative-psychiatry-clinic). In addition, she is also Fellowship Faculty with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (www.azcim.org) and faculty with The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (www.cmbm.org). Born and raised in Iran, Noshene Ranjbar moved to the U.S. as a teen and completed undergraduate and medical education at the University of Virginia followed by internship in Family Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut and involvement with research at Yale University. She completed Psychiatry Residency at University of Arizona, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and Integrative Medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona. Her academic interests include integrative psychiatry, physician well-being and burnout, mind-body medicine, and health disparities with focus on Native American and refugee health. She serves as a volunteer psychiatrist for evaluating asylum seeking individuals with the Arizona Asylum Network and the Florence Project, and is active in the MIND clinic, a free mental health clinic at the University of Arizona serving immigrant and underserved families. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-penn/support

Derek Hockaday interviews Tony Hope, Professor of Medical ethics and honorary consultant psychiatrist, 6 May 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:16) first degree at Oxford prior to Medicine and early academic career; (00:06:58) physiology department, Oxford, and colleagues; (00:09:15) clinical years, including remembering Jim Holt; (00:12:34) interest in psychiatry during house jobs; (00:17:00) the Middlesex Hospital teaching compared to Oxford; (00:18:46) move into psychiatry, the Phoenix Unit at Littlemore Hospital; (00:22:00) diagnosis in psychiatry; (00:23:54) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; (00:27:40) medical ethics, Sid Bloch, student society The Oxford Medical Forum, developing teaching practice skills in Oxford, change of ethical management of patients in the 1970s; (00:41:45) teaching role in ethics and communications; (00:47:25) assessing success of teaching ethics; (00:51:51) working on dementia; (00:56:55) interaction between hospital and community relating to psychiatry; (01:01:13) Oxford university lectureship; (01:06:58) setting up the Ethox Foundation; (01:09:31) clinical work from 2005 onwards; (01:12:38) ethics research including on anorexia nervosa; (01:18:29) changes in student interest in medical ethics; (01:20:47) publications; (01:21:53) the Oxford Medical Forum; (01:23:47) proudest contribution to clinical work; (01:25:35) final thoughts, the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:59:56-1:01:12 and 01:04:54-1:06:58.

Peggy Frith interviews Derek Hockaday, 24 Sep 2020 Topics discussed include: (00:00:22) context of interviewing Derek Hockaday, thoughts on the recollecting oxford medicine interviews in general; (00:01:40) getting into medicine, first contact with the Radcliffe Infirmary as a patient in 1946, school days; (00:03:46) time at Brasenose college, Oxford in 1947; (00:05:30) George Gordon and increasing terms tutored in physiology; (00:06:55) research in physiology; (00:07:55) being drawn to clinical medicine; (00:08:42) BSc research work; (00:11:10) clinical training in the Middlesex Hospital; (00:13:31) anecdotes about clinical student visits; (00:15:15) medical finals; (00:16:10) Wheatley Military Hospital; (00:17:59) discussing Hugh Cairns and Cairns hospital for head injuries; (00:19:48) George Pickering, Ian Bush and chemical investigations into psychiatric patients; (00:24:00) angiography patients at Wheatley, angiography pre scanning; (00:26:59) George Pickering; (00:28:22) Cambridge pre-clinical students coming to train clinically at Oxford; (00:29:38) year in Boston, Massachusetts endocrine unit at the Mass. General Hospital; (00:35:20) returning from America to Oxford, becoming a consultant; (00:39:37) the Oxford Diabetic Clinic, introduction of dialysis to Oxford; (00:43:24) wards and firms looking after patients; (00:44:13) hutted wards; (00:45:06) teaching and lecturing of clinical students; (00:45:50) medical tutor 1980 at Brasenose; (00:48:09) training diabetologists including George Alberti; (00:51:13) Sheffield speciality in Renal medicine, influence of Ranjan Yajnik on diabetic medicine in India; (00:52:57) figures involved in Oxford research in diabetes; (00:54:43) diabetic coma treatments research trials; (01.01:33) contact bedside testing; (01.02:33) inception of, and effect of Sheikh Rashid Diabetes Unit, Oxford; (01:10:16) the fifth principle of physiology; (01:11:10) randomised trial on diabetic treatments and Richard Doll; (01:12:10) side effect of alcohol flushing; (01:15:04) medical administration; (01.23:25) sport; (01:28:14) final thoughts including clinical appointment times, praising nursing profession and first ward round as consultant. Note the following sections are redacted: 00:33:21-00:33:43; 00:40:35-00:41:54; 001:12:47-01:12:56.

Dr. Joshua Rozell is a hip and knee replacement surgeon at NYU Langone with practices in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He specializes in anterior approach hip replacement, computer-navigated and robotic knee replacements, and outpatient joint replacement surgery. Many of the techniques he uses allow patients to recover more quickly and improve their function and strength after surgery. He did his undergraduate training at Emory University, went to medical school at Drexel University, and had his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania, along with a hip and knee replacement fellowship at the prestigious Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado.   Dr. Manuel Wilfred is a physical therapist who provides care for joint replacement patients at NYU Langone-Brooklyn. He has worked with orthopedic patients both inpatient and outpatient throughout his 19 years in the profession. Prior to being at NYU Langone-Brooklyn, he received his bachelor's degree in physical therapy from India and then he left that country to study at University College London and work in the National Health Service's Middlesex Hospital. He has a doctor of physical therapy degree from the University of Montana and completed his PhD degree from Seton Hall University.    In Part 2, we discussed: advanced surgical techniques employed for both hip and knee surgery; time after surgery when physical therapy interventions are initiated; other kinds of members of the health care team at NYU Langone Health involved both pre- and post-surgery to make possible same-day discharge; additional therapy provided once patients return home and when it is initiated; the role of telehealth in delivering home-based care; situations at home that may result in patients seeking emergency room care or requiring in-patient hospitalization; whether patients who undergo bilateral hip and knee surgery are suitable candidates for same-day discharge; and kinds of research being conducted at NYU involving same-day discharge. 

We've got a program we know will touch a lot of people today, because cancer touches so many of our lives here in Connecticut - so we'll kick things off  with our friends for Circle of Care discussing all the great work and support they are providing to pediatric cancer patients and how to get involved in their incredible Art From The Heart initiative. Then get ready to ride Closer to Free - and meet a trio with unique to Smilow and the Yale Cancer Center. We'll talk with an oncologist and the son of a Smilow cancer patient both participating in this year's Closer to Free Ride, and a patient who is surviving her second battle with cancer thanks to the team at Smilow being supported by the ride. We'll close our cancer themed program with an invite to a different kind of music festival called Boobstock - this regional music fest is coming up in mid-September with great tunes, food, and proceeds benefiting Breast Cancer Patients at Smilow in New Haven and Middlesex Hospital's Comprehensive Breast Center.

Dr. Joshua Rozell is a hip and knee replacement surgeon at NYU Langone with practices in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He specializes in anterior approach hip replacement, computer-navigated and robotic knee replacements, and outpatient joint replacement surgery. Many of the techniques he uses allow patients to recover more quickly and improve their function and strength after surgery. He did his undergraduate training at Emory University, went to medical school at Drexel University, and had his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania, along with a hip and knee replacement fellowship at the prestigious Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado.   Dr. Manuel Wilfred is a physical therapist who provides care for joint replacement patients at NYU Langone-Brooklyn. He has worked with orthopedic patients both inpatient and outpatient throughout his 19 years in the profession. Prior to being at NYU Langone-Brooklyn, he received his bachelor's degree in physical therapy from India and then he left that country to study at University College London and work in the National Health Service's Middlesex Hospital. He has a doctor of physical therapy degree from the University of Montana and completed his PhD degree from Seton Hall University.    n Part 1, we discussed: the effect of the COVID pandemic on performing hip and knee replacement surgery and providing post-operative care; typical hospital length of stay experienced by patients prior to implementing same-day discharge; number of these surgical procedures performed on a weekly basis; the proportion of these operations resulting in same day-discharge; kinds of factors used to identify patients who are excellent candidates for same-day discharge following hip and knee replacement surgery; factors indicating that certain patients should be excluded from participating in same-day discharge; and contents of a "playbook" used during the preoperative consultation phase. 

The Middlesex Hospital was home to one of the world's first dedicated cancer wards and hosted the nineteenth-century surgeon Charles Bell.

Princess Diana made international headlines in 1987 at the opening of the UK’s first HIV/AIDS unit at Middlesex Hospital when she shook hands with a patient who was dying from AIDS.In an era of AIDS hysteria, this ordinary gesture marked the first time a royal or a prominent politician knowingly made public physical contact with anyone living with HIV. This simple act placed her in stark contrast to the aloof royal family and endeared her to gay men everywhere.Over time Princess Diana evolved into a fierce advocate for many great causes including HIV & AIDS, as well as leading a campaign against landmines.When Diana first entered the spotlight, she was shy and demure but after her divorce she became a strong and charismatic champion as “The People’s Princess.”But how did she do it? How did she go from someone controlled by the monarchy to a powerful advocate for the people?Today Princess Diana’s voice and presence coach, Stewart Pearce, joins us to look at how he helped Princess Diana tap into the power within to command an international stage.In his new book “Diana: the Voice of Change,” Pearce dives deep into his work helping guide people like Princess Diana on how to speak and act in public.BUY THE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3p7rK6YListen Stewart shares some of the techniques he uses on his celebrity clientele to perform their best and why does Lord Voldemort sound like Margaret Thatcher?STEWART PEARCE: http://stewartpearce.comPlus,➤ What does Stewart think of the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving the royal family?➤ The 25th anniversary of Princess Diana's visit to Chicago.

Quantum Nurse www.quantumnurse.life Freedom International Livestream Friday, May 14, 2021 @ 2:00 PM EST 7:00 PM UK 8:00 PM Germany Features: People's Nurse International: Natural Health, Body Autonomy & Divinity Guests: Kate Shemirani, Nurse Practitioner Qualifed Nurse, UK Kate Shemirani has been a nurse for 36 years. She is also a personal nutritionist advisor and nurse practitioner. Kate Shemirani's inspiring story about how she came to stand up against the tyranny of mandatory vaccines, and as a result, she was arrested and charged with six felonies, JUST for standing up For The People. Kate is also a Christian that puts God's Will in the center of her life. Be inspired! Kristen Nagle Registered Nurse, BScN, RHN Ontario, Canada www.canadianfrontlinenurses.ca/ Nurse Kristen has been a nurse for 14 years, primarily in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, with previous experience in Pediatrics. When Kristen's first son was born she realized the importance food would have in creating the foundation for his growth and development and enrolled at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. Rachel Celler Registered Nurse http://theforensicnurse.org “The forensic nurse, exposing medical crime one misdiagnosis at a time. A sanctified healer, Navy veteran hospital corpsman, Registered nurse, and global health educator. My covenant is established with God and I teach biblical healing and cure according to the Holy Bible.I have an online healing and vaccine Re-education ministry, Fisher of men ministry.org. My nine minute video titled cancer laced vaccines exposes the MRC5 aborted fetal tissue used in vaccines is a weaponized cancer cell line engineered to make you sick. There is no mystery to reversing diseases like cancer, auto-immune disease and autism. There are natural solutions to every health problem. I help people around the world take authority over their health and reverse dis-ease naturally at home.” Dr. Kevin Corbett, PhD Qualified Nurse https://kevinpcorbett.com/ Kevin P. Corbett has over thirty years experience in clinical and academic healthcare practice working in acute / primary care and higher education institutions. He completed both undergraduate and postgraduate training in Art at the University of Reading (1979) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London (1981). Kevin qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1986 becoming part of the commissioned staff for Broderip Ward at the Middlesex Hospital, London, Britain's first purpose built HIV/AIDS unit, opened by Princess Diana in 1987. Postgraduate nursing research followed at King's College London (1987-1989) into improving metered dose inhalation through patient training in the physiology of the inhaled route. His doctoral research (1995-2001) focused on patients' indeterminate experiences of the tests used in HIV/AIDS, the ELISA, Western Blot and PCR tests.

Quantum Nurse www.quantumnurse.life Freedom International Livestream Thursday, April 29, 2021 @ 2:00 PM EST 7:00 PM UK 8:00 PM Germany Features: People's Nurse International: Natural Health, Body Autonomy & Divinity Guests: Kate Shemirani, Nurse Practitioner Qualifed Nurse, UK Kate Shemirani has been a nurse for 36 years. She is also a personal nutritionist advisor and nurse practitioner. Kate Shemirani's inspiring story about how she came to stand up against the tyranny of mandatory vaccines, and as a result, she was arrested and charged with six felonies, JUST for standing up For The People. Kate is also a Christian that puts God's Will in the center of her life. Be inspired! Kristen Nagle Registered Nurse, BScN, RHN Ontario, Canada www.canadianfrontlinenurses.ca/ Nurse Kristen has been a nurse for 14 years, primarily in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, with previous experience in Pediatrics. When Kristen's first son was born she realized the importance food would have in creating the foundation for his growth and development and enrolled at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. Rachel Celler Registered Nurse http://theforensicnurse.org “The forensic nurse, exposing medical crime one misdiagnosis at a time. A sanctified healer, Navy veteran hospital corpsman, Registered nurse, and global health educator. My covenant is established with God and I teach biblical healing and cure according to the Holy Bible.I have an online healing and vaccine Re-education ministry, Fisher of men ministry.org. My nine minute video titled cancer laced vaccines exposes the MRC5 aborted fetal tissue used in vaccines is a weaponized cancer cell line engineered to make you sick. There is no mystery to reversing diseases like cancer, auto-immune disease and autism. There are natural solutions to every health problem. I help people around the world take authority over their health and reverse dis-ease naturally at home.” Dr. Kevin Corbett, PhD Qualified Nurse https://kevinpcorbett.com/ Kevin P. Corbett has over thirty years experience in clinical and academic healthcare practice working in acute / primary care and higher education institutions. He completed both undergraduate and postgraduate training in Art at the University of Reading (1979) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London (1981). Kevin qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1986 becoming part of the commissioned staff for Broderip Ward at the Middlesex Hospital, London, Britain's first purpose built HIV/AIDS unit, opened by Princess Diana in 1987. Postgraduate nursing research followed at King's College London (1987-1989) into improving metered dose inhalation through patient training in the physiology of the inhaled route. His doctoral research (1995-2001) focused on patients' indeterminate experiences of the tests used in HIV/AIDS, the ELISA, Western Blot and PCR tests.

Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist.

Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Agnes Arnold-Forster's book The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2021) offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. Rachel Pagones is chair of the doctoral program in acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego and a licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the second episode of series 2 Laura meets with Vikki Howarth. they discuss her career to date and her current role as Lead Nurse for Critical Care Outreach at North Middlesex Hospital.Vikki is also the Trust Clinical Lead for Organ Donation and she outlines her passion for organ donation which began whilst working in Intensive care. She gives advice for anyone working in a leadership position and how as nurses we should not be put off by applying for roles traditional done by doctors.

Near Death Experiences Near death experience, or NDE is an unusual, profound, personal experience taking place on the brink of death and recounted by a person after recovery, typically an out-of-body experience or a vision of a tunnel of light. Supposedly, when these experiences are positive, they may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. When they’re considered negative, these experiences may include sensations of anguish distress or peeing your pants.  Of course, we’re going to get super nerdy here so bear with us while Jeff snores in the background. Some explanations for NDEs range from scientific to religious. Oh boy! Neuroscience research suggests that an NDE is a subjective phenomenon resulting from "disturbed bodily multisensory integration" that occurs during life-threatening events, as per Olaf Blanke’s 2009 book, “The Neurology of Consciousness”, while some transcendental and religious beliefs about an afterlife include descriptions similar to NDEs. The French term “expérience de mort imminente” which isn’t a delicious French dip sandwich, actually means “experience of imminent death” and was proposed by French psychologist and epistemologist Victor Egger as a result of discussions in the 1890s among philosophers and psychologists concerning climbers' stories of the panoramic life review during falls. Yes. falls. In 1892 a series of subjective observations by workers falling from scaffolds, war soldiers who suffered injuries, climbers who had fallen from heights or other individuals who had come close to death (like driving in a car with Moody) was reported by Albert Heim. This was also the first time the phenomenon was described as clinical syndrome. In 1968 Celia Green published an analysis of 400 first-hand accounts of out-of-body experiences in her book, boringly and obviously called “Out-of-the-body Experiences”.  This was the first attempt to provide a classification of such experiences, viewed simply as anomalous perceptual experiences, or hallucinations. In 1969, Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies Elisabeth Kubler-Ross published her groundbreaking book On Death and Dying: What the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy, and their own families. Fuck! These book names are so long! These experiences were also popularized by the work of psychiatrist Raymond Moody, which may or may not be Moody’s drunken uncle,  in 1975 coined the term "near-death experience" (NDE) as an umbrella term for the different elements (out of body experiences, the "panoramic life review," the Light, the tunnel, or the border). Also, The term "near-death experience" had already been used by John C. Lilly in 1972. Ok, let’s talk about some common traits of near death experiences. Researchers have identified the common traits that define near-death experiences, according to Mauro, James Mauro in his book "Bright lights, big mystery.” Bruce Greyson argues that the general features of the experience include impressions of being outside one's physical body, visions of deceased relatives and religious figures, and transcendence of egotic and spatiotemporal boundaries. At this point, Some if you and especially Jeff are asking “what in the fuck is spatiotemporal boundaries!?!” Well, that shit refers to perception of continuous contours, shape, and global motion from sequential transformations of widely separated surface elements. How such minimal information in SBF can produce whole forms and the nature of the computational processes involved remain mysterious. YA GOT ALL THAT?!  Many common elements have been reported, although the person's interpretation of these events, obviously, often corresponds with the cultural, philosophical, or religious beliefs of the person experiencing it. For example, in the US, where 46% of the population believes in guardian angels, they will often be identified as angels or deceased loved ones (or will be unidentified), while Hindus will often identify them as messengers of the god of death, according to the Bruce Greyson book “The handbook of near-death experiences thirty years of investigation” and Mary J. Kennard‘s book, "A Visit from an Angel". Interestingly, NDEs are no more likely to occur in devout believers than in secular or nonpracticing subjects. A 2017 study by two researchers at the University of Virginia raised the question of whether the paradox of enhanced cognition occurring alongside compromised brain function during an NDE could be written off as a flight of imagination. The researchers administered a questionnaire to 122 people who reported NDEs. They asked them to compare memories of their experiences with those of both real and imagined events from about the same time. The results suggest that the NDEs were recalled with greater vividness and detail than either real or imagined situations were. In short, the NDEs were remembered as being “realer than real.” Ok, now! Some Common traits that have been reported by NDErs are as follows: A sense/awareness of being dead. A sense of peace, well-being and painlessness. Positive emotions. A sense of removal from the world. An out-of-body experience. A perception of one's body from an outside position, sometimes observing medical professionals performing resuscitation efforts. A "tunnel experience" or entering a darkness. A sense of moving up, or through, a passageway or staircase. A rapid movement toward and/or sudden immersion in a powerful light (or "Being of Light") which communicates with the person. An intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance. Encountering "Beings of Light", "Beings dressed in white", or similar. Also, the possibility of being reunited with deceased loved ones. Receiving a life review, commonly referred to as "seeing one's life flash before one's eyes". Approaching a border or a decision by oneself or others to return to one's body, often accompanied by a reluctance to return. Suddenly finding oneself back inside one's body. Connection to the cultural beliefs held by the individual, which seem to dictate some of the phenomena experienced in the NDE and particularly the later interpretation thereof. Let’s now talk about the Stages of a NDEKenneth Ring subdivided the NDE on a five-stage continuum. The subdivisions were:[21] PeaceBody separationEntering darknessSeeing the lightEntering the light Charlotte Martial, a neuropsychologist from the University of Liège and University Hospital of Liège who led a team that investigated 154 different NDE cases, concluded that there is not a fixed sequence of events. So, basically, she’s like “fuck that other guy.” Kenneth Ring also argues that attempted suicides do not lead more often to unpleasant NDEs than unintended near-death situations. But, you know how Charlotte Martial feels about that dude and his shitty opinions.  In one series of NDE's, 22% occurred during general anesthesia. The underlying neurological sequence of events in a near-death experience is difficult to determine with any precision because of the dizzying variety of ways in which the brain can be damaged. Furthermore, NDEs do not strike when the individual is lying inside a magnetic scanner or has his or her scalp covered by a net of electrodes! Interesting…Ok so what exactly happened to your brain during an NDE?  It is possible to gain some idea of what happens by examining a cardiac arrest, in which the heart stops beating (the patient is “coding,” in hospital jargon). The patient has not died, because the heart can be jump-started via cardiopulmo-nary resuscitation.     Modern death requires irreversible loss of brain function. When the brain is starved of blood flow (ischemia) and oxygen (anoxia), the patient faints in a fraction of a minute and his or her electroencephalogram, or EEG, becomes isoelectric—in other words, flat. This implies that large-scale, spatially distributed electrical activity within the cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, has broken down. Like a town that loses power one neighborhood at a time, local regions of the brain go offline one after another. Similar to Jon's brain on a Saturday night after drinking alot or maybe like all of us when we do our high movie review! The mind, whose substrate is whichever neurons remain capable of generating electrical activity, does what it always does: it tells a story shaped by the person’s experience, memory and cultural expectations. Given these power outages, this experience may produce the rather strange and idiosyncratic stories that make up the corpus of NDE reports. To the person undergoing it, the NDE is as real as anything the mind produces during normal waking. When the entire brain has shut down because of complete power loss, the mind is extinguished, along with consciousness. If and when oxygen and blood flow are restored, the brain boots up, and the narrative flow of experience resumes. Scientists have videotaped, analyzed and dissected the loss and subsequent recovery of consciousness in highly trained individuals—U.S. test pilots and NASA astronauts in centrifuges during the cold war (recall the scene in the 2018 movie First Man of a stoic Neil Armstrong, played by Ryan Gosling, being spun in a multiaxis trainer until he passes out). Or like Jon on the Tilt A Whirl.  At around five times the force of gravity, the cardiovascular system stops delivering blood to the brain, and the pilot faints. About 10 to 20 seconds after these large g-forces cease, consciousness returns, accompanied by a comparable interval of confusion and disorientation (subjects in these tests are obviously very fit and pride themselves on their self-control). The range of phenomena these men recount may amount to “NDE lite”—tunnel vision and bright lights; a feeling of awakening from sleep, including partial or complete paralysis; a sense of peaceful floating; out-of-body experiences; sensations of pleasure and even euphoria; and short but intense dreams, often involving conversations with family members, that remain vivid to them many years afterward. These intensely felt experiences, triggered by a specific physical insult, typically do not have any religious character (perhaps because participants knew ahead of time that they would be stressed until they fainted). By their very nature, NDEs are not readily amenable to well-controlled laboratory experimentation, cus you know, who the fuck would willingly want to be killed just to try and be brought back and see if they have any NDE. This isn't Flatliners people come on. It may be possible, however,  to study aspects of them in the humble lab mouse—maybe it, too, can experience a review of lifetime memories or euphoria before death. Many neurologists have noted similarities between NDEs and the effects of a class of epileptic events known as complex partial seizures. These fits partially impair consciousness and often are localized to specific brain regions in one hemisphere. They can be preceded by an aura, which is a specific experience unique to an individual patient that is predictive of an incipient attack. The seizure may be accompanied by changes in the perceived sizes of objects; unusual tastes, smells or bodily feelings; déjà vu; depersonalization; or ecstatic feelings. Episodes featuring the last items on this list are also clinically known as Dostoyevsky’s seizures, after the late 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who suffered from severe temporal lobe epilepsy. More than 150 years later neurosurgeons are able to induce such ecstatic feelings by electrically stimulating part of the cortex called the insula in epileptic patients who have electrodes implanted in their brain. This procedure can help locate the origin of the seizures for possible surgical removal. Patients report bliss, enhanced well-being, and heightened self-awareness or perception of the external world. Exciting the gray matter elsewhere can trigger out-of-body experiences or visual hallucinations. This brute link between abnormal activity patterns—whether induced by the spontaneous disease process or controlled by a surgeon’s electrode—and subjective experience provides support for a biological, not spiritual, origin. The same is likely to be true for NDEs. Why the mind should experience the struggle to sustain its operations in the face of loss of blood flow and oxygen as positive and blissful rather than as panic-inducing remains mysterious, especially since life sucks so bad. It is intriguing, though, that the outer limit of the spectrum of human experience encompasses other occasions in which reduced oxygen causes pleasurable feelings of jauntiness, light-headedness and heightened arousal—deepwater diving, high-altitude climbing, flying, the choking or fainting game, and, in Jeff's case, sexual asphyxiation. (After-effects) NDEs are often associated with changes in personality and outlook on life, according to James Mauro. Ring has identified a consistent set of value and belief changes associated with people who have had a near-death experience. Among these changes, he found a greater appreciation for life, higher self-esteem, greater compassion for others, less concern for acquiring material wealth, a heightened sense of purpose and self-understanding, desire to learn, elevated spirituality, greater ecological sensitivity and planetary concern, and a feeling of being more intuitive. However, not all after-effects are beneficial according to the book by RM Orne titled "The meaning of survival: the early aftermath of a near-death experience" and Greyson describes circumstances where changes in attitudes and behavior can lead to psychosocial and psychospiritual problems. Here are some actual near death experiences taken from the book “Beyond The Light” by P.M.H Atwater Jazmyne Cidavia-DeRepentigny of Hull Georgia.  She died on the operating table during surgery in late 1979.  "I must say that this experience was quite unsettling to say the least.  I was floating over my body.  I could see and hear everything that was being said and done.  I left the room for a short while and then returned to where my body lay.  I knew why I died.  It was because I couldn't breathe.  There was a tube down my throat and the medical staff did not have an oxygen mask on my nose.  I had also been given too much anesthetic. "In my out-of-body state, I'm using my mind to try and make my right arm and hand move - my arms are extended parallel to my physical body.  I want my right hand to move, any thing to move.  I was trying to pull the tube out of my mouth.  I looked down at my face and tears were streaming.  One of the nurses blotted the tears from my face but she didn't notice my breathing had stopped, nor did she see me next to her.  At this point, I'm trying really hard to make my physical arm move, but it's like my whole body is made of lead." "I could see my spirit standing before me.  My spirit was so beautifully perfect, dressed in a white gown that was loose, free-flowing, and below the knee.  From my spirit there emanated a bright, soft-white halo.  My spirit was standing six to eight feet from my body.  It was so strange, for I could see my spirit and my spirit could see my pathetic body.  I had not an ounce of color and I looked all withered and cold and lifeless.  My spirit felt warm and so, so celestial.  As my spirit slowly moved away, my spirit told my body goodbye, for my spirit saw the light and wanted to go into it.  The light was like a circular opening that was warm and bright." Robin Michelle Halberdier of Texas City, Texas, her near-death episode took place in a hospital when she was between one and two months of age.  Born prematurely, and with Hyaline Membrane disease, she was not expected to live "My first visual memory was looking forward and seeing a brilliant bright light, almost like looking directly at the sun.  The strange thing was that I could see my feet in front of me, as if I were floating upward in a vertical position.  I do not remember passing through a tunnel or anything like that, just floating in the beautiful light.  A tremendous amount of warmth and love came from the light. "There was a standing figure in the light, shaped like a normal human being, but with no distinct facial features.  It had a masculine presence.  The light I have described seemed like it emanated from that figure.  Light rays shone all around him.  I felt very protected and safe and loved. "The figure in the light told me through what I now know to be mental telepathy that I must go back, that it was not time for me to come here.  I wanted to stay because I felt so full of joy and so peaceful.  The voice repeated that it wasn't my time; I had a purpose to fulfill and I could come back after I completed it. "The first time I told my parents about my experience was right after I began to talk.  At the time, I believed that what happened to me was something everyone experienced.  I told my mom and dad about the big glass case I was in after I was born, and the figure in the light and what he said to me.  They took my reference to the glass case to mean the incubator.  My father was a medical student at the time, and he had read a book about near-death experiences.  From comparing the information in the book with what I told them, they decided that's what I was describing.  My mom told me all of this years later when I brought the subject up again. "I began attending church at the age of five, and I would look at the picture of Jesus in the Bible and tell my mom that's who it was in the light.  I still have many physical difficulties with my health because of being premature.  But there is a strong need inside me that I should help others with what death is, and talk to terminally ill patients.  I was in the other world and I know there is nothing to be afraid of after death." Bryce Bond, a famous New York City media personality turned parapsychologist, once collapsed after a violent allergic reaction to pine nuts and was rushed to a hospital.  "I hear a bark, and racing toward me is a dog I once had, a black poodle named Pepe.  When I see him, I feel an emotional floodgate open.  Tears fill my eyes.  He jumps into my arms, licking my face.  As I hold him, he is real, more real than I had ever experienced him.  I can smell him, feel him, hear his breathing, and sense his great joy at being with me again. "I put my dog on the ground, and step forward to embrace my stepfather, when a very strong voice is heard in my consciousness.  Not yet, it says.  I scream out, Why?  Then this inner voice says, What have you learned, and whom have you helped?  I am dumb-founded.  The voice seems to be from without as well as within.  Everything stops for a moment.  I have to think of what was asked of me.  I cannot answer what I have learned, but I can answer whom I have helped. "I feel the presence of my dog around me as I ponder those two questions.  Then I hear barking, and other dogs appear, dogs I once had.  As I stand there for what seems to be an eternity.  I want to embrace and be absorbed and merge.  I want to stay.  The sensation of not wanting to come back is overwhelming." "I heard a voice say, 'Welcome back.'  I never asked who said that nor did I care.  I was told by the doctor that I had been dead for over ten minutes." Julian A. Milkes, almost hit by a car "My mother and I were driving out to the lake one afternoon.  My dad was to follow later when he finished work.  We were having company for dinner, and, as we rode along, my mother spotted some wild flowers at the side of the road.  She asked if I wouldn't stop the car and pick them as they would look nice on the dinner table.  I pulled over to the right side of the road (it was not a major highway), parked the car, and went down a small incline to get off the road to pick the flowers.  While I was picking the flowers, a car came whizzing by and suddenly headed straight for me. "As I looked up and saw what I presumed would be an inevitable death, I separated from my body and viewed what was happening from another perspective.  My whole life flashed in front of me, from that moment backwards to segments of my life.  The review was not like a judgment.  It was passive, more like an interesting novelty. "I can't tell you how many times I think of that near-death experience.  Even as I sit here and write my story for you, it seems as though it happened only yesterday." Ernest Hemingway, wounded by shrapnel while fighting on the banks of the river Piave, near Fossalta, Italy. "Dying is a very simple thing.  I've looked at death and really I know." "A big Austrian trench mortar bomb, of the type that used to be called ash cans, exploded in the darkness.  I died then.  I felt my soul or something coming right out of my body, like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner.  It flew around and then came back and went in again and I wasn't dead anymore." "I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine.  Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh - then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind.  I tried to breathe but my breath would not come and I felt myself rush bodily out of myself and out and out and out and all the time bodily in the wind.  I went out swiftly, all of myself, and I knew I was dead and that it had all been a mistake to think you just died.  Then I floated, and instead of going on I felt myself slide back.  I breathed and I was back." John R. Liona of Brooklyn, New York "Mine was a difficult birth, according to my mother.  She said she didn't hear me cry after I was born because I was a 'blue baby.'  They did not bring me to her for two days.  My face was black and blue, and she said the skin was all cut up on the right side of my face.  That's where the forceps slipped.  I was given a tracheotomy to help me breathe.  I am totally deaf in my right ear.  Also, the right side of my face and head is less sensitive than the left.  When I get tired, the right side of my face droops a little, like Bell's palsy. "I am forty years old now.  All my life going back to my childhood I can remember having this same recurring dream.  It is more vivid than any other dream.  It starts and ends the same - I am kneeling down and bent over, frantically trying to untie some kind of knots.  They almost seem alive.  I am pulling on them and they are thick and slippery.  I am very upset.  Pulling and snapping.  I can't see what they're made of.  I remember getting hit in the face while trying to untie or break free of the knots, and waking up crying.  Then I would go back to sleep thinking it was only a dream or a nightmare.  When the dream would happen again on another night, I would sleep through it longer, as I began to get used to it. "After I am able to sleep through the knotty part, suddenly my struggling stops.  I feel like a puppet with all the strings cut.  My body goes limp.  All the stress and struggle is drained right out of me.  I feel very calm and peaceful, but wonder what caused me to lose interest in the knots.  They were important one minute; the next minute I am floating in this big bright light.  I know I can't touch the ground because there is light there, too.  I look at the light and try to move toward it.  I can't, and this upsets me.  There is a woman in a long, flowing gown floating away to my left.  I call and call to her but the light is so bright sound does not travel through it.  I want to talk to the woman.  My dream ends there. "About a year ago, I walk out of my house to go to work.  The ground is wet from rain, yet I find this book lying there - dry.  No one is around, so I pick it up.  The book is called 'CLOSER TO THE LIGHT,' by Melvin Morse, M.D., and Paul Perry.  It is on the near-death experiences of children.  That night I start reading it and cannot put it down.  For the first time in my life, I now understand my dream.  Those knots were when I struggled in the womb with the umbilical cord; getting hit in the face is when the doctor grabbed me with the forceps, then I died.  After that, I went into the light. "But, wait a second.  You're not supposed to remember being born.  We don't just sit around at parties and talk about what we remember of our birth.  We only talk about what our parents tell us.  I look forward to having my dream again.  I'm ready now to experience more of it than before, and without being upset." Jeanne L. Eppley of Columbus, Ohio "My experience happened during the birth of my first child.  For many years I blamed it on the anesthetic.  I had three more children without pain because I believed that if there wasn't any pain, I wouldn't have to have anesthetics that caused experiences like this.  Living proof of mind over matter, right? "What happened was this: Everything was bright yellow.  There was a tiny black dot in the center of all the yellow.  Somehow I knew that the dot was me.  The dot began to divide.  First there was two, then four, then eight.  After there had been enough division, the dots formed into a pinwheel and began to spin.  As the pinwheel spun, the dots began to rejoin in the same manner as they had divided.  I knew that when they were all one again, I would be dead, so I began to fight.  The next thing I remember is the doctor trying to awaken me and keep me on the delivery table, because I was getting up. "When my daughter was born, her head was flattened from her forehead to a point in back.  They told me that she had lodged against my pelvic bone.  But the doctor had already delivered two others that night and was in a hurry to get home.  He took her with forceps.  I've often wondered if my experience was actually hers, instead." "I survived and became very strong.  Before it happened I was a very weak person who had depended on others all my life.  It constantly amazes me that people talk about how much they admire my strength.  I developed a lot of character having lived this life and raising four children alone.  I can honestly say that I like and respect myself now.  I did not when the near-death experience happened.  I believe maybe it was sent to show me that I could be strong.  I certainly needed that strength in the years that came after." Gloria Hipple of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania "My incident took place in August of 1955.  I had been taken to Middlesex Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, due to a miscarriage.  Placed in a ward because I was a military dependent, the doctor who was to care for me never came.  I was placed at a forty-five-degree angle due to bleeding and was left that way for almost eight days.  No one heard my pleas.  By the eighth day, I could not hear anyone, my eyes could not see, and I was later told that my body temperature registered 87.6 degrees.  I should have been dead. "I recall being pulled down into a spinning vortex.  At first, I did not know what was happening.  Then I realized my body was being drawn downward, head first.  I panicked and fought, trying to grab at the sides of the vortex.  All I could think of was my two children.  No one would care for them.  I pleaded, Please, not now, but I kept moving downward. "I tried to see something, but all there was to see was this cyclonic void that tapered into a funnel.  I kept grabbing at the sides but my fingers had nothing to grasp.  Terror set in, true terror.  I saw a black spot, darker than the funnel and like a black curtain, falling in front of me.  Then there was a white dot, like a bright light at the end of the funnel.  But as I grew closer, it was a small white skull.  It became larger, grinning at me with bare sockets and gaping mouth, and traveling straight toward me like a baseball.  Not only was I terrified, I was really livid, too.  I struggled to grab hold of anything to keep me from falling, but the skull loomed larger.  'My kids, my baby is so little.  My little boy, he's only two years old.  No!'  My words rang in my head and ears.  With a bellowing yell, I screamed: 'No!  damn it, no!  Let me go.  My babies need me!  No!  No!  No!  No!' "The skull shattered into fragments and I slowed in movement.  A white light, the brightest light I have ever known or will ever see again was in place of the skull.  It was so bright yet it did not blind me.  It was a welcome, calming light.  The black spot or curtain was gone.  I felt absolute peace of mind and sensed myself floating upward, and I was back.  I heard my husband calling me, off in the distance.  I opened my eyes but could not see him.  Two doctors were at the foot of my bed - both were angry and compassionate at the same time.  I was taken to the operating room, given several pints of blood, and was released one week later. "No one would believe my handshake with the grim reaper.  Scoffers almost put me in tears.  Everyone laughed at me, including my husband, so I never told my story again - until I wrote to you.  It was the most horrendous, yet the most gratifying experience I've ever had in my life." And another  in 1943 during a tonsillectomy  "Ether was the sedation used to put me to sleep.  I recall being terrified by the mask and the awful smell.  I can still taste it as I think about it.  As the sedation took hold, there was the vortex, the dizzy spinning sensation, as I was dragged downward into sleep.  I screamed, not knowing what was happening to me." "My near-death experience has made me quite sensitive to many more things than my mind understands.  It also helped me to be less serious about myself.  I'm dispensable.  I have discovered I do not value 'things' as I once did.  I befriend people in a different way.  I respect their choices to be the people they want to be.  The same for my own family.  I will guide, but not demand.  As for the "Light" - it was then and remains so, my encounter with the most powerful of all entities.  The giver of life on both sides of the curtain.  After all, I was given a second chance.  I am blessed and cannot ask for more." Sandra H. Brock of Staunton, Virginia "I had a stomach stapling in 1980 and, in the process, had to have a deformed spleen removed.  I hemorrhaged on the operating table, and the doctor said that at three times he thought he was going to lose me.  The first day after surgery I had to have transfusions.  During one of the transfusions I started feeling really weird.  I felt like if I shut my eyes I would never open them again.  I called a nurse.  Of course, she said it was all in my head, and left the room.  I remember she just walked out the door and I started being pulled through a tunnel.  It was a terrible experience because all I could see were people from my past, people who were already dead, who had done or said something to me that had hurt me in one way or another.  They were laughing and screaming, until I thought I could not stand it.  I begged and begged that I be allowed to go back.  I could see a light at the end of the tunnel but I never really got close to it.  All of a sudden I was back in my bed, just thankful I had not died." She’s had other NDE’s, as well. "My mother told me that when she found she was pregnant with me, she prayed that I would die.  They were just coming out of the depression and they already had a baby and could not afford another.  When I was born, I was born with a harelip.  Mother thought that was her punishment for wanting me dead.  Within several days, and without any surgery, my harelip healed itself, and to this day I do not carry a scar.  She also told me that when I was only a few weeks old, she came to my bassinet and found me not breathing.  I had already turned purple.  She grabbed me, shook me, and blew in my face until I started breathing again.  I don't remember this experience, but I do remember being in a bassinet that had no liner.  I remember studying my hands and what my hands looked like as an infant.  My mother said I couldn't possibly remember this, but I did, and I was right." Alice Morrison-Mays New Orleans, Louisiana "From my position near the ceiling, I watched as they began to wrap both my legs from tips of the toes up to my hips, then my arms and hands up to the shoulders.  This was to keep what blood remained for my heart and lungs.  Then they tilted my body so my legs were up in the air and I was standing on my head! "I was furious about the way they had handled Jeff's birth and now they were running around like chickens with their heads cut off squawking loudly; and here I was looking at that silent, bandaged body lying on a tilt table, head to the floor, legs and feet in the air.  I was venting my anger and frustration from the corner of the ceiling on the right side of my body.  I can remember the anger vividly, fury at the powerless position this whole event put me in, and I was very 'verbal' about it - silently - up there, as my mind raced to express its reaction, worry, and concern.  Their statements 'We're losing her!  We're losing her!'  frightened me and I'd get pissed all over again. "The scene changed and I was no longer in that room.  I found myself in a place of such beauty and peace.  It was timeless and spaceless.  I was aware of delicate and shifting hues of colors with their accompanying rainbows of 'sound,' though there was no noise in this sound.  It might have felt like wind and bells, were it earthly.  I 'hung' there - floating.  Then I became aware of other loving, caring beings hovering near me.  Their presence was so welcoming and nurturing.  They appeared 'formless' in the way I was accustomed by now to seeing things.  I don't know how to describe them.  I was aware of some bearded male figures in white robes in a semicircle around me.  The atmosphere became blended as though made of translucent clouds.  I watched as these clouds and their delicate shifting colors moved through and around us. "A dialogue softly started with answers to my unfinished questions almost before I could form them.  They said they were my guides and helpers as well as being God's Messengers.  Even though they were assigned to me as a human and always available to me - they had other purposes, too.  They were in charge of other realms in creation and had the capacity of being in several places simultaneously.  They were also 'in charge' of several different levels of knowledge.  I became aware of an ecstasy and a joy that permeated the whole, unfolding beyond anything that I had experienced in my living twenty-five years, up to that point.  Even having my two previous children, whom I wanted very much, couldn't touch the 'glow' of this special experience. "Then I was aware of an Immense Presence coming toward me, bathed in white, shimmering light that glowed and at times sparkled like diamonds.  Everything else seen, the colors, beings, faded into the distance as the Light Being permeated everything.  I was being addressed by an overwhelming presence.  Even though I felt unworthy, I was being lifted into that which I could embrace.  The Joy and Ecstasy were intoxicating.  It was 'explained' that I could remain there if I wanted; it was a choice I could make. "There was much teaching going on, and I was just 'there' silently, quietly.  I felt myself expanding and becoming part of All That Was in Total Freedom Unconditionally.  I became aware again that I needed to make a choice.  Part of me wanted to remain forever, but I finally realized I didn't want to leave a new baby motherless.  I left with sadness and reluctance. "Almost instantly I felt reentry into my body through the silver cord at the top of my head.  There was something skin to a physical bump.  As soon as I entered, I heard someone near me say, 'Oh, we've got her back.'  I was told I had two pieces of placenta as large as grapefruits removed." Steven B. Ridenhour of Charlottesville, Virginia "We smoked another joint and then headed toward the rapids.  Debbie begins laughing, and the next thing I know we're overtaken by laughter.  The giggling stops as we're swept off our feet and dragged downriver.  Debbie cries out, 'Steven I can't swim.  I'm drowning.'  I feel powerless because I can't get to her and I'm yelling, 'Hang on, don't panic,' when I take a tremendous mouthful of water.  Without any warning, time, as I know it, stops. "The water has a golden glow and I find myself just floating as without gravity, feeling very warm and comfortable.  I'm floating in a vertical position with my arms outstretched and my head laying on my left shoulder.  I feel totally at peace and full of serenity in this timeless space.  Next I go through a past-life review.  It was like looking at a very fast slide show of my past life, and I do mean fast, like seconds.  I don't quite understand the significance of all the events that were shown to me, but I'm sure there is some importance.  When this ended, it was as if I was floating very high up and looking down at a funeral.  Suddenly I realized that I was looking at myself in a casket.  I saw myself dressed in a black tux with a white shirt and a red rose on my left lapel.  Standing around me were my immediate family and significant friends. "Then, as if some powerful force wrapped around me, I was thrust out of the water, gasping for air.  There was Debbie within arm's reach.  I grabbed her by the back of her hair and I was able to get us both over to the rocks and out of the water.  After lying on the rocks for a while, I glance over at Debbie and it's like looking at a ghost.  As she describes what she went through, it became apparent that we both had the same experience underwater - the golden glow, the serenity, seeing our lives flash before us, floating over a funeral, and seeing ourselves in a casket.  That is the only time we ever talked about it.  I haven't seen or talked with Debbie since." Passenger Justin Kowalczyk “my near death experience: December 8th 2006 I got attacked by a pitbull. Tore my upper lip in half and off my face. got rushed to the ER, put under and into emergency surgery to  try and reconnect what they could find and stop the bleeding. While under anesthesia I found myself watching the doctors work on me. my viewpoint seemed to be from the ceiling of the room. No sound. but they seemed frantic. came too and brought up my "dream" to doctors and family. i was told you do not dream under anesthesia.  fast forward 2 years and while going over the medical records for the lawsuit i stumble upon the fact that they couldnt get the bleeding to stop and couldnt keep my airway clear. for a brief period i had died on the table.  pretty sure this is what I saw in my "dream"” Her name is Winnie:Four years ago, I was on the I-10 highway in Arizona, making my daily commute from work. This is also a huge truck route, so traffic got pretty brutal at times. All seemed fine for once, traffic was flowing smoothly and we were all cruising at about 75. Out of nowhere, everyone jumps to the right lanes and comes to a screeching halt. There is an ADOT (Arizona Department of Transportation) car in the far left lane, seemingly parked in the lane with the worker on his phone. I hit my hazard lights and slam on my brakes and miss the pickup truck in front of me by an inch. I check behind me, and a few people have thrown their cars into the shoulder to avoid hitting the car in front of them. Thats when I see it- I remember it as vividly as if it happened yesterday-I watched my rear view in horror as a red, Volvo semi with a refrigerated trailer is still going full speed. The driver has his head turned, talking to his passenger. They're not slowing down, they don't see me. I see his passenger turn his head and point frantically as they barrel closer and closer. I hear his brakes engage, I hear his tires squeal, but they're still not stopping. I contemplate fleeing my vehicle, but there's no time. Suddenly, I saw a flash of my life play out before me." I didn't get to tell my boyfriend goodbye this morning. When was the last time I called my mother? What am I going to do? There's nowhere to run, I'm going to die, the person in front of me is going to die, and the person in front of them is at the very least going to be really messed up. Oh my God. Fuck. Fuck. This is going to hurt. I'm not ready to go." All of these thoughts occurred in the same 5 seconds.  I felt my car get hit, and I see the semi on the side of me, scraping down the guard rail. He threw his truck into the shoulder to avoid hitting me head on.. The truck finally stopped about a football field away from me, and I realize I'm alive. Immediately after I realize I'm not only alive but in one piece, I look out my window and see that my car is surrounded by people, frantically trying to get me to unlock the vehicle. I unlock my door, and Immediately after that I blacked out. Was it stress? Trauma? I don't know. But I have first hand accounts from law enforcement and paramedics that I drove my car off the freeway as instructed and sat down to be looked over by paramedics after giving my statement. I have severe pain in my back to this day, but considering what should have happened, I'll take it. I don't believe in angels, divine intervention or even fate. But *something* or someone was looking out for me that day. Celebrity Near Death Experiences  https://people.com/celebrity/stars-open-up-about-their-near-death-experiences/?amp=true The Midnight Train Podcast is sponsored by VOUDOUX VODKA.www.voudoux.com Ace’s Depothttp://www.aces-depot.com BECOME A PRODUCER!http://www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast Find The Midnight Train Podcast:www.themidnighttrainpodcast.comwww.facebook.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.twitter.com/themidnighttrainpcwww.instagram.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.discord.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.tiktok.com/themidnighttrainp And wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Subscribe to our official YouTube channel:OUR YOUTUBE

In this week's episode of Sportswire, I give an update on the story from a couple weeks ago about the couple who allegedly had their baby stolen from Middlesex Hospital, I also cover AEW's Double of Nothing and break down the rumors of AEW actually working with WWE. I also do a brief preview of tomorrow night's NXT Takeover XXV live from Bridgeport, CT on the WWE Network. Email questions or comments to sportswireaudio@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sportswireaudio/support

Appetite for Life is back to support Middlesex Hospital Cancer Center!

Connecticut state Sen. Len Suzio, R-13, says the suspect, who crashed into the emergency room of Middlesex Hospital last week, was a recipient of Governor's Malloy's earned risks reduction program.  In an interview with Brad Davis and Dan Lovallo, Sen. Suzio alleged the governor's program has been a failure. Pictured L-R: Brad Davis, Dan Lovallo, Sen. Len Suzio

Middlesex County fire and EMS response to a car fire in the building at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown Feb. 22, 2018.

Dr. Fulvio DiBlasi, president of Thomas International, speaks about his life and faith as a writer and as a Thomist philosopher. Recorded and Aired on location at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT, on October 2, 2017.

Dr. Fulvio DiBlasi, president of Thomas International, speaks about his life and faith as a writer and as a Thomist philosopher. Recorded and Aired on location at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT, on October 2, 2017.

Dr. Fulvio DiBlasi, president of Thomas International, speaks about his life and faith as a writer and as a Thomist philosopher. Recorded and Aired on location at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT, on October 2, 2017.

Is the patient the centre of every action you take in the ICU? Do you exude calm and enthusiastic energy and greet other team members warmly and genuinely? Do you seek pleasure in seeing colleagues grow to become more skilled than you are? These are 3 questions you might ask yourself after you listen to this episode with Professor Julia Wendon, a well respected intensivist from the United Kingdom. Julia gives great advice on how helping people converse with each other, often by picking up the phone and demonstrating good consultant to consultant communication can be really valuable in helping a patient receive the best care. She also outlines exemplary behaviour such as saying hello to the patient, whether they are intubated or not, and then telling them the plan after the ward round review. Julia, from King’s College London in the United Kingdom, is Professor of Hepatology, Executive Medical Director, and a highly experienced intensive care physician. Her appointment at King’s began as a consultant in 1992 and since then she has played a key role in the development of the internationally respected King’s liver service, including the expansion of the hospital's intensive care bed capacity. Her primary clinical areas of interest are severe liver injury, multi-organ failure, immune dysfunction and the role of extracorporeal therapies for the management of acute liver failure. She is a respected academic, has published over 150 papers, and is regularly invited to lecture at national and international conferences. Julia is an articulate, thoughtful, caring and compassionate intensivist, as well as a tremendous stage presenter. Julia was an international speaker at the Australian and New Zealand CICM ASM in Sydney in May 2017 and this gave me a brilliant opportunity to interview her. Having helped to develop a world-leading liver ICU service at King’s, Julia gives highly useful reflections on how noone can achieve anything without colleagues and great teamwork; smiling, saying hello and thank you is an important role of being a consultant leader; seeking second opinions is a really valuable regular practice to make sure we aren’t missing anything; learning from trainees who have come from other continents and cultures is a huge privilege; looking after patients should always come before attending hospital meetings; and how she revels in allowing less experienced people to step forward and grow so that they can eventually overtake her. Also hear Julia speak about how: After enjoying intensive care as a very junior doctor working on a cardiac ambulance team, she trained at Middlesex Hospital in London under role models like David Bihari and Jack Tinker, who taught physiology enthusiastically at the bedside She learned so much from the senior intensive care nurses in her younger days Intensive care careers sometimes need to be varied in pace, and even head off in different directions at times Much can be gained by visiting other colleagues ICUs and even doing a ward round to see how others interact and manage patients She often reflects over a cup of tea on how a day in the ICU went and how she could have done things better The running of a family conversation can be difficult, is often done better by some than others, is a learnable skill, and requires accurate knowledge of what is happening with the patient, as well as asking the family what their present understanding is, all with the aim that the family can cope with the memories that they will leave with Making time for the important things in our lives helps us manage stress; and for Julia this includes clinical work, reading papers, reflecting, doing research, spending time with family, cooking and skiing Everyone in a department has different needs, and these should be recognised so that people can be allowed to do what fits with their needs, whether that be research, education, management or even playing golf Starting a 7 day week on a Friday can allow for some relief on the sixth or seventh consecutive day if this is required; which is less possible if the week starts on a Monday She would love to go back and study pure mathematics She worries we think about stress and burn out but that we don’t do enough planning for what we will do when we are finished medicine We could use our journal clubs to allow us to present our favourite life habit to our colleagues Handover has become a greater responsibility as ICU teams have got bigger With this podcast, and the previous episodes, please help me in my quest to improve patient care, in ICUs all round the world, by inspiring all of us to bring our best selves to work to more masterfully interact with our patients, their families, ourselves and our fellow healthcare professionals so that we can achieve the most satisfactory outcomes for all. It would be much appreciated if you helped spread the word by simply emailing your colleagues or posting on social media. If you want to send a comment or respond to something Julia said on this episode, feel free to email me andrew@masteringintensivecare.com, leave a comment on the Mastering Intensive Care podcast page on LITFL or on Facebook, or post on twitter using the hashtag #masteringintensivecare. Thanks so much for listening. Please give your patients the very best care you can, and take care of yourself too.

We have been given the honor of having Dr. Robles, a general surgeon at Middlesex Hospital, and Dr. Kapoor, who specializes in primary care. Dr. Robles has been with Middlesex for quite some time. He specializes in a variety of different surgeries and he’s worked with a variety of different people. Dr. Kapoor is a part of the group, Middlesex Family Physicians.

Electronic musician Scanner (otherwise known as Robin Rimbaud) is world-famous for his powerful ambient works. He is creating a new sound installation for the Fitzrovia Chapel, which used to be the chapel of the old Middlesex Hospital before it was demolished. The piece will be made of snippets of recordings from people who used to work in the hospital and will play as part of FitzFest in June. I spoke to Scanner about the piece, the power of buildings and the changing nature of London. Scanner's website :: FitzFest :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (7:46 min / 7 MB)