Tune in as Dr Powell and our hosts Sam and Steve reflect on the challenges facing neurodiverse students in our education system, pivoting careers, seeking fulfilment and embracing uncertainty.
A short bio for the upcoming Headway Golf Day.
Chatting to the team about being an advocate for organ donation. A touching, personal conversation about the aftermath of the accident and the interviewer’s tragic, personal connection to organ donation.
I am mentally frail, fragile and emotionally labile. I have learned through personal trauma about the sort of cognitive fatigue and emotional exhaustion that affects so many of us. This is all so new to me. I never needed to check the balance in my “ Bank of Me ” account. The personal account, opened by my parents when I was young was filled to the brim for me by my family and my career. I never realised how lucky I was. What do you do when your balance gets low? How do you manage when your creditors come calling?
Moving Onwards and Upwards What a pleasure to chat with, and join “Life Stories Australia”. Trying to recount the past has opened a whole new life for me in the future and I am very excited to join Deborah and others crafting Life Stories. “First up, in a Life Stories Australia first, we have a guest speaker who has become a member. Dr Bruce Powell, who had us all enthralled about his life story journey after a horrific cycling accident has joined our group as an Associate emerging life story teller. Along with writing his memoir, he has assisted Rhu Griffiths with workshops. We welcome him aboard. If you missed his forum or would like to revisit it, you can watch it here .”
https://writingwa.substack.com/p/dr-bruce-powell-on-the-new-writing
ABC National Radio It seems obvious that the ‘Year That Made Me’, is the year that I crashed. But it isn’t. The year that made me was the year that I became a medical student. The rest is just detail.
Thanks to the West for publishing this opinion piece.
‘I catapulted into the sign head-first’: How a brain injury redefined a marriage
The Life Project: Raising Awareness in WA
ABC Mornings News Panel guests criminal barrister Linda Black and doctor and writer Bruce Powell, discuss whether the WA Police use of data from the SafeWA app was a breach of privacy. "I've had to delete my Safe WA app and I have had to burn my AstraZeneca t-shirt," Dr Bruce Powell said. "What am I supposed to do when the goal posts around SafeWA privacy and the vaccination go around so fast, I don't even know which way to kick." Linda Black described the actions by police as "deplorable". "I think it is absolutely deplorable behaviour by the Police Commissioner, to take advantage of what he described as a loophole in the terms and conditions in circumstances where he knew that people had been prepared to give up their essential privacy in order for the protection of the greater public good, and the protection of all of our health," she said. Listen to the full conversation on Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/perth-drive/dr-bruce-powell/12520266?utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared
Breaking Down the Barriers – Medical Forum — Read on mforum.com.au/breaking-down-the-barriers/
