Category: Health & Medical

It’s the middle of June, and you’ve just remembered the extras on your health cover. There’s a limit on massage you haven’t touched all year, and you’ve a feeling it starts again with the new financial year. So you book a ninety-minute session at a place in the shopping centre with a sign in the […]

The waiting room is in an old terrace in inner Brisbane, the kind with pressed-metal ceilings and a fiddle-leaf fig that someone clearly waters with care. She is in her thirties, sitting on a timber bench with two pieces of paper on her knee. One is a quote from this practice for clear aligners, and […]

The first session is often free. You turn up a little nervous, do some squats and a few minutes on the rower, and it feels good to have finally started. Then, as you’re catching your breath, the conversation turns to packages: ten sessions, twenty, a direct debit that starts on Monday. It’s easy to say […]