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Three distinguished medicine men who have all made their mark in different areas.

Mindfulness with Jon Kabat Zinn, story telling and medical treatment with Vincent Lam, plus Hans Rosling on the power of statistics.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is known throughout the world for his pioneering work in applying meditation or mindfulness to mainstream medical treatment.


Hans Rosling, once a medical field officer in Mozambique, now designs new ways to visualise global statistics in order to get us all to shake up our outdated views of the world.


And Vincent Lam has transformed his night shifts on emergency hospital wards into a gritty and sometimes gruesome best selling novel.  


llustration by Emily Kasriel:  Mindfully inverting the mind body relationship as doctors use statistics to create and challenge the stories that they tell themselves and their patients to heal.

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