The gift
Grateful patients often bring gifts to clinicians. I have had some rippers over the years ranging from half a sheep and gallons of wine to shirts…
Top posts of 2016 so far …
Down here in the southern hemisphere the winter solstice has passed and we are all pretty excited about the daylight hours slowly getting longer. To celebrate…
Clever Apps and Smart Devices
The dawn of Apps Certain dates stand out in history and have a special “where were you when …” quality about them – 20 July 1969,…
2015, a year on NOIjam
2015 has been our biggest year yet on NOIjam – our readership has grown larger and spread further, and we now have more than 300 eclectic…
Money down the pain
Part two of The Conversation’s series on pain has been published – a look at the cost of chronic pain: Pain drain: the economic and social…
The gift of sound and vision
The Protectometer has a category Things you hear, see, smell, taste and touch. There are many powerful SIMs that could fit here – great music, inspiring art,…
The Protectometer, a Vital Clinical Tool
The Protectometer has to be one of the most useful clinical tools which has arrived on the scene in decades, and is now at our disposal. From the…
Arthritis Victoria Koadlow Public Lecture 2015
David Butler was invited by Arthritis Victoria to give the 2015 Koadlow Public Lecture. The evening was a smashing success with the venue at capacity and all…
All alone in the moonlight
The New York Times piece from last month on memory and pain: Forgetting the Pain of Exercise “Completing a marathon can be exhilarating but also agonizing.…
“A corner of my consciousness”
“I have found that when I paint, I become completely consumed and my pain recedes into a corner of my consciousness.” -Angeline, Western Australia Over…
