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The 2nd Cranbrook Video Festival (“Wellbeing”)

The 2nd Cranbrook Video Festival, on the theme of Wellbeing, took place yesterday at the Crane Surgery in Cranbrook, Kent, and it was a great success. Many thanks to all those who submitted and let me use their work, and a special thanks to Carolina Khouri for turning up to the event – she got a spontaneous round of applause for her video “Ball on a Beach”. Below is a link to the final programme for the event, which was chock-full of good things, and images from all of the videos.

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The London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival

The London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival – https://www.facebook.com/worldwidecomedyshortfilmfestival/ – took place on 12th Feb at the Hackney-Attic Picturehouse in London, and my animation The Squeaker was in it, along with a host of other stuff.

Dr Hairy’s Research Summaries, Feb 2017

After a bit of a break, Series 4 of Dr Hairy’s Research Summaries has just launched. Subjects covered this time:

Redesigning healthcare to fit with people
BMJ 2016;354:i4536
Anxiety in teenage girls rises sharply in past decade, finds study
BMJ 2016;354:i4649
What is the most effective treatment for frozen shoulder?
BMJ 2016;354:i4162
Best practice for HRT: unpicking the evidence
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Identification of patients with non-metastatic colorectal cancer in primary care: a case-control study
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Red eyes in children: red flags and a case to learn from
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Migraine and risk of cardiovascular disease in women: prospective cohort study
BMJ 2016;353:i2610
Migraine and vascular disease: the medical implications of migraine are not limited to the brain
BMJ 2016;353:i2806
Plantar heel pain
BMJ 2016;353:i2175
Occupational asthma
BMJ 2016;353:i2658
How similar are biosimilars?
BMJ 2016;353:i2721

For more about Dr Hairy’s Research Summaries, visit http://www.drhairy.org/concrete5/index.php/research-summaries/

It’s also worth mentioning that Series 3 of Dr Hairy’s Research Summaries is now available in book form:

Dr Hairy's Research Summaries, Volume 3

Just £15! If you happen to want to buy a copy (and who wouldn’t), please visit the Dr Hairy catalogue page.

Gnossiennes (interludes for the Wellbeing project)

Three short videos based on Eric Satie’s Gnossiennes, and designed to be used as interludes between the text-videos in the Wellbeing project.

The paintings in Gnossienne 2 are by Edward Hopper.

Gnossienne 1 – https://youtu.be/4ktm1Cw7xKE
Gnossienne 2 – https://youtu.be/mVfII9Cnq2U
Gnossienne 3 – https://youtu.be/CZwS9Vv1zP0

The Wellbeing Project, part three

Numbers nine to eleven in a series of eleven short information videos about wellbeing, designed to be shown in the waiting room of the doctor’s surgery where I work.

9. Social Media – https://youtu.be/VCaz82zE76U
6. Humour – https://youtu.be/rHoSGD2PKEQ
7. Resilience – https://youtu.be/leBqSKJuU-8

The Wellbeing Project, Part Two

Numbers five to eight in a series of eleven short information-videos about wellbeing and life-satisfaction, designed to be shown in the Waiting Room of the doctor’s surgery where I work.

5. Creativity – https://youtu.be/iysdK3FdcK8
6. Pets – https://youtu.be/cE5AyfyVWWs
7. Money – https://youtu.be/FPzjg6A5qN8
8. Mindfulness – https://youtu.be/tEN0a711PoM

The Wellbeing Project, Part One

The first four in a series of ten short information-videos about wellbeing and life-satisfaction, designed to be shown in the Waiting Room of the doctor’s surgery where I work.

1. Introduction – https://youtu.be/Lon8w_dACC4
2. Connecting with other people – https://youtu.be/B19GFLNAMuk
3. Learning – https://youtu.be/Ot4A6xOrOdQ
4. Staying active – https://youtu.be/EUwIK6poKJI

Dr Hairy and the QCQ, Part 1

The Under-Secretary for Health cooks up a fiendish new inspection regime for doctors’ surgeries, and Dr Hairy gets an extremely bizarre phonecall from his mother – with hilarious results!

YouTube – https://youtu.be/azwID6hgXOs
Vimeo – https://vimeo.com/191198092

– Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com – personal website

The Squeaker

A short song/video about the tribulations of a professional busybody – an inspector of doctors’ surgeries, in fact. This will eventually appear as part of the third series of Dr Hairy videos (collectively entitled “Dr Hairy and the QCQ”), but hopefully it also works as a stand-alone. Loosely based on “The Seeker” by The Who, which is a particular favourite of mine. Made using InkScape, Blender, Kdenlive, Audacity and the Gimp.