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02/02/2018 Gerard Stevenson

He’s not sitting around waiting for something to happen.

Read the remarkable story of Dinesh Palipana in his own words. I was involved in a motor vehicle accident in

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22/10/2017 Gerard Stevenson

“Gerard, you’re full of it!”

“Gerard, you’re full of it!” After my 7 weeks in hospital I returned to Clarendon Street refreshed. The next 5

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20/10/2017 Gerard Stevenson

Where have I been the last 3 months?

Well, the short answer is I have spent a lot of that time either in the Emergency Department (ED) at

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12/06/2017 Gerard Stevenson

When things aren’t working out well

The best ideas, the most powerful ideas, are the ones that are really useful. Sometime in the early 1800s, Captain

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16/05/2017 Gerard Stevenson

Yes I can-the second song I wrote

I am doing research with Melbourne University on the effect of songwriting on how a person sees their own identity

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14/05/2017 Gerard Stevenson

The nurse who skipped for joy

It was a week or two after I had successfully learnt how to speak again using “leak” speech. It was

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01/05/2017 Gerard Stevenson

Rapid developments on Brainwaves in Melbourne

My previous post was about the research being done at Melbourne University/Royal Melbourne Hospital on brainwaves. Just in case you

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28/04/2017 Gerard Stevenson

Brain Waves

We live in amazing times. The Royal Melbourne Hospital is at the forefront of brainwave technology. This technology involves inserting

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25/04/2017 Gerard Stevenson

I write my first song.

Here is the first song I wrote with Claire as part of the Melbourne University research program. Thanks to Frank

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13/04/2017 Gerard Stevenson

I enrol in a songwriting course.

Melbourne University are conducting research into the effect of songwriting on people with severe injury. I signed up for the

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