Dr Bambi Rakhel Ward

Medical Education Consultant|Author & Speaker

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My Revamped Blog

I’m finally back home after having time for work and pleasure in the wonderful Northern Territory.

I’m looking forward to celebrating my birthday this week…..it’s not a special birthday in the traditional sense, but I’m turning the age of the last two digits of the year I was born in, so it feels very special to me.

I’ve also been reflecting on my current blog, and how it’s going. Given that I have a multitude of interests, I’ve decided to experiment for a while and try a few regular features. These may include links to someone else’s blog, photos of books I’ve bought or am reading, a recommendation of a cultural activity, conference or festival, and something or someone that has inspired me.

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Even more Alice Springs Photos…

Landscape - Alice Springs

Landscape – Alice Springs

Landscape - Alice Springs

Landscape – Alice Springs

Landscape - Alice Springs

Landscape – Alice Springs

Reptile Centre - Alice Springs

Reptile Centre – Alice Springs

Reptile Centre - Alice Springs

Reptile Centre – Alice Springs

Sign - National Pioneer Womens' Centre - Alice Springs

Sign – National Pioneer Womens’ Centre – Alice Springs

Beanie Festival

Beanie Festival

Beanie Festival

Beanie Festival

Beanie Festival

Beanie Festival

Alice Springs Beanie Festival

Alice Springs Beanie Festival

Clay Pot

Clay Pot

Alice Springs – an awesome place

At the beanie festival

At the beanie festival

Beanie festival

Beanie festival

presentation dinner

At the presentation dinner for the Classic Outback Trial rally. Michael very happy – he came first in his class.

Green tree frog

Green tree frog

At the reptile centre

At the reptile centre

The biggest car I've ever driven.

The biggest car I’ve ever driven.

Camel sculptures

Camel sculptures at the railway station

Desert Park

Desert Park

Indigenous culture

Learning about Indigenous culture

Desert Park

Desert Park

School of the Air

School of the Air

Sunrise outside our room

Sunrise outside our room

Highlights from Alice Springs

Sunset from our room

Sunset from our room

Desert Park

Desert Park

After the hailstorm

After the hailstorm

During the hailstorm

During the hailstorm

My husband and codriver with the rally car

My husband and codriver with the rally car

Choir of hard knocks concert

Choir of hard knocks concert

Peacock at Ross River retreat

Peacock at Ross River retreat

View from our accommodation

View from our accommodation

Finke National Park

Finke National Park

Morning tea at cattle station

Morning tea at cattle station

Ute ride at cattle station

Ute ride at cattle station

Kangaroo Dundee

Kangaroo Dundee

Joey at Kangaroo Dundee's Sanctuary

Joey at Kangaroo Dundee’s Sanctuary

Where’s Bambi Rakhel?

There will be no formal blog post for the next few weeks… just photos.

Before you get to the third photo, see if you can guess where I am.

Looking forward to discussing incorporating more of the humanities into medical education over the next couple of day out bush.

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The Magic of Storytelling : a conference report

I’m just back from the wonderful Sydney International Storytelling Conference, held in a quiet, peaceful retreat in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, about one hour’s drive from Sydney’s airport.

I’ve been to many conferences in my life, but this one was the friendliest and most welcoming by far.

Eighty people, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous,  from  Australia, New Zealand, Korea, USA, Sweden and Singapore, came together to celebrate the joy of storytelling, to laugh and to learn more about the craft.

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The Value of Intuition

Have you ever had a strong intuition about something and ignored it or pushed it to one side?

I have. It cost me dearly in terms of my emotional and physical wellbeing. Lying on a cold silver guerney, awaiting a medical procedure six years ago, I had a strong urge to get up and leave. It wasn’t too late. The specialist wasn’t in the room yet. I started feeling really uneasy. Something felt very wrong.

‘Don’t be silly’, the rational part of me said to myself. It’s normal to feel like this before a procedure. It’s just nerves.

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The Power of Poetry

A few weeks ago I came across an article about a new and unique initiative in a Western Australian hospital, where poetry is being used to provide medical and hospital staff members with respite from the pressures and stress of their work. One of the program’s aims is to enable staff to ‘find a fountain of renewal and rejuvenation in the middle of a busy hospital day.’

I’ve always been more interested in stories than poetry. Perhaps the uninspiring way in which poetry was taught in my secondary school English classes had something to do with it. Nevertheless, the article piqued my curiosity. I read on.

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Sometimes less is more

Someone emailed the quote below to me last week. It was very apt at the time, but became even more so after learning of the deaths of two people last week.

Sometimes writing less in a blog is more.

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My Favourite Books

How many of you collect lists of book recommendations?

I do. As of this year, I now have a dedicated book in which I note the book’s name, title and who recommended it. When the reading pile on my bedside table gets low, I have a readymade selection of books to choose from.

Several years ago I asked my birthday party guests to bring along a list of their ten favourite books. Only four people obliged out of about fifty people, but the ones who did gave their lists much thought. I then decided to create my own list of favourite books, and the list was published in a newsletter under the title of ‘Holiday Reading: Some Suggestions’.

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