Recently I went to a physician and left pondering the question: “What is health anyway?”

This is an interesting question, especially one for a doctor to ask.

But it’s important because if we don’t know what health is, how do we know if we’ve got it? If we don’t know what health is, how do we know we’ve improved?

As a doctor and medical writer, I’m finding it more and more difficult to write about …

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I’ve based a huge chunk of my career on the assumption that evidence-based information helps people make better informed health decisions, have better health conversations with their doctors and ultimately leads to better health outcomes.

Evidence is my stock in trade. I have spent many years translating evidence into a form that people can understand. I’ve written thousands of evidence-based articles across many channels. I’ve written position statements, belonged to guideline …

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