Hippocrates said: “it’s more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has” Being a doctor is an art, which helps to unravel the complexities of the medical science that explains why we become sick or even why we die. Learning about the origins of disease enables the doctor to make the right diagnosis and treat a disease, more often than not, using pharmacological approaches or surgical interventions. There is a missing link in this challenging battle against diseases and the link is the person who is the subject of our treatments. The compl ..read more

Around 1 in 3 people in the UK live with at one or more chronic conditions, at least 30% of of which are preventable or reversible using lifestyle changes. The best way to maintain good health is to be able to control own health using certain health-seeking behaviours. Four health-seeking behaviours are summarised as follows: · Knowing how to access resources about achieving optimum health · Obtaining knowledge and adopting healthy lifestyle behaviours · Being internally motivated to sustain healthy lifestyle behaviours · Being able to access support to maximise goal achievements for optimum h ..read more

I am an Oncologist and a mainstream medicine doctor, with years of experience in the use of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and targeted therapies to combat cancer. In the last three years, I have had the privilege to work with people who have studied and practiced Integrative Oncology, which is all about treating the whole person and not just the cancer illness. In scientific terms, Integrative Medicine is about combining traditional medicine with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and lifestyle change, leading to synergistic therapeutic and quality of life effects. I have thus apprecia ..read more