Associate Professor Brett Aimers In 2009 the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires devastated Victoria, claiming 173 lives, injuring 414 others and displaced more than 7,500 people. More than 400 separate fires occurred on and after 7 February 2009. Prior to this disaster,...
  • 31 July 2017
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Dr Allan Cyna Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide South Australia Little words such as ‘sting’, ‘hurt’, ‘itch,’ ‘worry’, can have an inadvertent negative impact on patient perceptions and behaviours.  Negative suggestions, more commonly known as nocebo communications, are frequent in...
  • 20 July 2017
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Dr Allan Cyna Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide South Australia Little words such as ‘sting’, ‘hurt’, ‘itch,’ ‘worry’, can have an inadvertent negative impact on patient perceptions and behaviours.  Negative suggestions, more commonly known as nocebo communications, are frequent in...
  • 20 July 2017
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Dr Allan Cyna Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide South Australia Little words such as ‘sting’, ‘hurt’, ‘itch,’ ‘worry’, can have an inadvertent negative impact on patient perceptions and behaviours.  Negative suggestions, more commonly known as nocebo communications, are frequent in...
  • 20 July 2017
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