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Books.

Blease, C. Dr Bot: Why patients need digital doctors and what technology still can't do. Yale University press (2025)

Bernstein, M., Blease, C., Locher, C., & Brown, W. The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick. Mayo Clinic Press (2024)

Essays.

 

A range of essays published in leading magazines and newspapers from 2011 to the present.

Why personal insults fail

 

Empowering patient research

 

Confronting ableism

Your doctor's words could make you sick

When words worsen symptoms

Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease

Deck the halls with hallmark films

 

The tyranny of beauty

Why are doctors so afraid of letting patients see their records?

A technological prescription

Medicine's culture of secrecy

Why pills won't solve postpartum depression

Underselling Ulster

Sinéad O’Connor: a true rebel

The banality of Barbie

No, you don't have ADHD

In defense of boozy workplaces

Gender ideology can harm trans people, too

Sex matters in medicine

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Groupthink is stifling the university

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No, Michelangelo's David isn't 'inappropriate' for kids

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As a journalist, my partner fought for the facts. Yet the the truth of his own medical condition was kept from him

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The snobbish war on the red tops

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Prince Harry and the trouble with therapy

Don't fear patients reading their clinical notes: Opinion

Opening mental health notes: 7 tips to prepare clinicians

Treating patients like grown-ups: Open notes

Should mental health patients see their doctors' notes?

How do you save a child from a robot?

Philosophy can teach children what Google can’t

Is this on the exam? The pressing need for philosophy in schools

Mind the gap: Ethical failures in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome

The talking cure taboo

Can a shot of the humanities make doctors more humane?

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Empowering Young Minds of the Future

 

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