Anne Malatt on Life

Modern medicine is amazing. What we are able to do to support the human being in existence is incredible. The recent advances in technology, surgery and pharmacology that we work with today and the research that will bring us new advances in the near future are nothing short of miraculous. Doctors and allied health professionals are dedicated and hardworking individuals who practise their professions with the greatest integrity they can.

So, why are the rates of illness and disease rising? … More Universal Medicine Restores Conventional Medicine to its Healing Roots

In the not-so-distant past, contagious or communicable diseases were greatly feared, and the cause of many deaths, often on a mass scale. The Black Plague, the Spanish Flu, and smallpox all come to mind and are seared in our collective memories. With the advent of modern sanitation and medicine, these diseases have become much less common. As they have waned, the importance of non-communicable diseases has risen. … More Contagion – Part two: Non-communicable diseases, are they really not communicable?

When someone walks into a room, we know how they are feeling.
We can feel it with our whole being, and we then confirm it with our five senses. … More Contagion – Part one: Contagion

Why are patients called patients?

Most practitioners call their customers clients, but doctors call theirs patients.

Why is that? … More Why are patients called patients?

I recently had surgery.

The wonder-fully inspiring account of this can be read elsewhere on this website. I just felt to balance it with the other side of the story. … More The Im-patient Doctor

I am a surgeon. I love operating, but I have never really felt it to be healing, until now.

I have never been a patient person either, but I recently had surgery as a patient, and truly felt what a profound opportunity for healing it can be. … More Surgery can be Healing (The Patient Surgeon)

A dear friend sent me a link to a funny photo, which came from a facebook page with the title:

“Yes, Officer I did see the Speed Limit sign, I just didn’t see YOU!”

When I saw the title I laughed out loud and then I was stopped in my tracks.

I realised that this was how I had lived my life, thinking I was getting away with it. … More Getting Away with It…