What is going on in healthcare?
A reflection on the story behind the book, Beyond the Stethoscope, featuring friend and author Lucy Mayes. What is going on in healthcare?...
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Karen Klak
- Oct 29, 2021
- 5 min
The importance of a medical community – beyond the obvious
By Karen Klak I believe it takes a village to heal a child… A community is a place where we feel welcome and connected, a place of trust...
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Sharee Johnson
- Oct 29, 2021
- 3 min
Today I am a Patient
In this piece, Sharee Johnson, Psychologist & Executive Coach, & Founder of Coaching with Doctors, talks about a recent patient experience.
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Sue Robins
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Day Kindness Went Viral
By Sue Robins I’ve been on social media for over a decade, and I finally went viral on Twitter. It was not from a clever or controversial...
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Amy Maddison
- Aug 4, 2021
- 4 min
Kindness for families with disability
When I thought about ‘kindness’ in the health sector and in the community, I immediately thought of my viewing of the ABC series, ‘Love...
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hushfoundation
- Oct 25, 2019
- 4 min
We are all in this together
‘More than anything when I was going through cancer treatment, I wanted to see my oncologist’s heart.'
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hushfoundation
- Oct 22, 2019
- 3 min
1000% Excited
An article by Sue Robins, Canadian Patient Storyteller and Author of Bird's Eye View: Stories from a life lived in health care.
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hushfoundation
- Mar 26, 2019
- 5 min
We are only (and not only) human, after all
The importance of a humanistic approach to the way we care and are cared for. By Amy Maddison I still remember back in 2014, reading...
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hushfoundation
- Jan 4, 2019
- 3 min
The efficiency of kindness
by Guest Contributor Monday mornings of my surgical rotation this year made me a little apprehensive. Each week we were assigned to a new...
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Amy Maddison
- Nov 22, 2018
- 2 min
Gathering of Kindness, November 13 2018
There has been significant focus on the mental health and wellbeing of doctors in both mainstream media as well as in medical journals...
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Amy Maddison
- Nov 6, 2018
- 6 min
'Being Sam': On kindness demonstrated and kindness welcomed.
This post is written by Morag Zwartz- a Melbourne Journalist and writer. She recently published 'Being Sam' which movingly details her...
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Amy Maddison
- Sep 17, 2018
- 3 min
Little by little....The stars began to burn
Today my therapist fired me. By Sue Robins. Sue Robins is a New York Times published writer, health conference speaker and mother of...
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Amy Maddison
- Jun 28, 2018
- 6 min
Hardwired to be kind
Written by Dr Brian Goldman. Dr Goldman is an emergency physician in Toronto, Canada. He is also a writer who blogs at...
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hushfoundation
- May 10, 2018
- 5 min
A Letter to My Daughter
How our rigid rules can disconnect us from our souls' truth and the ones we love the most… by Karina Meacham When rules, guidelines,...
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hushfoundation
- Dec 22, 2017
- 4 min
“What Matters” - Gathering of Kindness poem by Michelle Phillips. November 3, 2017
What Matters? in life, in health in death, in wealth? the breadth of our experiences is tremendous and we do well to remember this answer...
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Amy Maddison
- Dec 10, 2017
- 2 min
“We are not in an era of change, we are in a change of era”
By Lucy Mayes I know a little bit about what it feels like to bring an audacious idea into action in the world. This made it all the...
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hushfoundation
- Nov 24, 2017
- 1 min
A tool for 'kindfulness'
By Christine Ireland, teacher. The Kindness sessions I went to on November 3, 2017, were immediately applicable to not only my line of...
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hushfoundation
- Nov 7, 2017
- 5 min
Burnout Culture and Disconnected Medicine
By Dr Nathalie Martinek Reports to date show that health and caring professionals across every specialty experience high rates of...
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Amy Maddison
- Nov 3, 2017
- 4 min
Celebrate Kindness
Hi, my name is Tanya Hendry and I work as a Manager at EACH, a social and community health service. I have spent most of my career...
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Amy Maddison
- Nov 1, 2017
- 3 min
Kindness practice
Ideas to kickstart your individual kindness practices at work. By Liz Ramsay No one wants to live with strain and unpleasantness in their...
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