Dr. Brian Kaplan

Anxiety and your Heart

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Dr. Kaplan) — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:14:28 +0000

Dr Jonathan Fisher is a cardiologist in Charlotte, South Caroline who has spent 10 thousand hours working on his own anxiety over the past 15 years. I know him as one of the most holistic colleagues I have in the world. In this article he writes beautifully about the Mind – Heart connection and what […]

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Meetings with Remarkable Healers | Dr. Eric Karl Ledermann

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Peter) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:51:42 +0000

I received a homework assignment from Dr Ledermann before I actually met him. I had begun a course in homeopathy for medical doctors at what was then known (and for me will always be known) as the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital (RLHH)*. It required me to read two articles by him, published in the British […]

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Meetings with Remarkable Healers | Lawrence Le Shan: Sing Your Own Song!

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Peter) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:43:14 +0000

I felt privileged to meet this New York psychotherapist in a rotating workshop where you get about 90 minutes with a variety of facilitators. I’ll never forget the hour and a half I spent with Lawrence Le Shan. As I entered the room, there was this teddy bear of a man sitting calmly in an […]

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Meetings with Remarkable Healers | Patch Adams: Doctor/Clown Extraordinaire

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Peter) — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:15:43 +0000

In the early 1990s, Patch Adams was invited by the British Holistic Medical Association to give a short workshop. I’d read his book called Gesundheit!, loved it and was keen to meet the man in person. Dressed in motley and with a red nose, he told a story of considerable suffering early in life, which […]

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Medicine, Homeopathy and Vaccination

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Dr. Kaplan) — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:47:18 +0000

This post was first published on 28th October 2019 ie just before the Covid pandemic. I continue to feel the same way about vaccination but would never support forcing anyone to have a vaccination. The national newspapers today are both unanimous and venomous in attacking homeopathy. Most articles conflated (in my opinion deliberately) two separate […]

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Royal Honour for Homeopathy

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Dr. Kaplan) — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 11:31:42 +0000

Homeopathic Doctors honoured by Royal Patronage This post was first published on August 4, 2019. It is worth adding that in June 2024 King Charles III became patron of the Faculty of Homeopathy showing that he has integrity and an independent viewpoint unshaken by populism. The Faculty of Homeopathy, a global association representing doctors, dentists, […]

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Heal, treat or cure: Not a case of ‘either or’.

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Dr. Kaplan) — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:02:06 +0000

Film Review: H E A L Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80220013 Netflix are to be commended on making a positive and life-affirming film on the power of the holistic or whole person approach in medicine. In this well-made documentary, luminaries such as Deepak Chopra make an excellent case for the body/mind/spirit, whole person approach in its various forms. […]

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Arts Therapies and Practitioner-based Research

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Dr. Kaplan) — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:27:42 +0000

In September, I took part in an art therapy symposium called Art Heals, led by Boston-based Professor of Art Therapy, Shaun McNiff and hosted by the London Art Therapy Centre. It was one of the most vital, moving and edifying meetings I’ve attended in over three decades as a medical doctor. There were 120 participants, including art therapists, authors, […]

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Backs, ‘Bad’ Backs and Bad Medicine

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Dr. Kaplan) — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:03:36 +0000

First published Sept 12, 2016. I feel the same way about backs having had some back problems myself since the original post! Three years ago I posted a few words on ‘bad backs’. Taking issue with the lay diagnosis of a ‘bad back’, I made the case for building up core strength by carefully and […]

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Alternatives to Evidence Based Medicine

brian@drkaplan.co.uk (Dr. Kaplan) — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:44:58 +0000

Medical scientists and particular the disciples of Scientism are fond of asserting that the only real Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is the randomised clinical trial where a medicine is compared with a control (placebo). I’ve long been of the position that RCTs have their limitations, particularly because they exclude the effects of the consultation itself, […]

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