Modern Fatigue: You Can Recover and Stay Recovered
After more than a decade of prolonged, recurring, disabling fatigue, medical educator and professional health researcher Sue Besomo made a lasting recovery—thanks to surprising research findings from the broader mystery of health.
Unlike other books on fatigue, this one draws on research into spontaneous remission from terminal illness, prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, burnout culture, character medicine, and more. These discoveries offer real, lasting solutions for modern fatigue.
You really can recover and stay recovered from modern fatigue.
Combining science with memoir, Sue describes in each chapter how her own prolonged, recurring fatigue unfolded, and how, after years of searching, she eventually came across the research findings that enabled her recovery.
In this compact book, Sue presents concise, easy-to-follow, evidence-based solutions to arrest modern fatigue.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7637426-0-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-7637426-2-8
About Sue
Sue Besomo was born in Victoria, Australia. She completed registered nurse training at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, and later attended Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, where she was awarded two nursing research degrees. Sue has worked in acute clinical nursing, community nursing, and hospital staff development.
Following her broad experience in the field of nursing, and further study into burnout, compassion fatigue and behavioural science, Sue moved into academic work holding positions at Central Queensland University, Queensland University of Technology, and most recently in the medical school at Bond University, Queensland.
While this is her first book, she has also authored a chapter on burnout prevention for orthopaedic surgeons in Mercer’s Textbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma 10th edition. Sue lives with her husband in Queensland, Australia.
Character Medicine
I was first introduced to the idea of mind-body medicine in the ‘80s when a palliative care physician gave me a book to read: “Love, Medicine and Miracles” by Dr. Bernie Segal. The ideas in this book so appealed to me that they started me on a decades long quest to understand the mind-body connection to health and wellbeing.
Fast forward to about a decade ago when I found a medical textbook explaining Hippocratic medicine as ‘character medicine’ - that which was practiced and taught by Hippocrates.
Character medicine holds that when a person can step out of their conditioned character and into their true character, their health will improve. The notion that I was operating out of a conditioned character was both convincing and alarming!
The book I have just published, “Modern Fatigue” records some of my own quest to shift into my true character.
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" A beautiful resource for all healthcare workers seeking clarity on modern fatigue.”
Dr Nemat Alsaba
MBBS, FACEM
Emergency Physician, Gold Coast Health
Associate Professor, Medical Education
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"This is the sort of self help that actually might help! Easy to dip in and out of, imbued with authenticity, current and sympathetic."
Jacqui Mahoney
Emergency Services -
“The wisdom in this book provides a clear and practical pathway to recovering from modern fatigue.”
Damien Meldrum
Registered Nurse, Anaesthetics -
"It's a gem. A fund of good advice and experience, so thoughtful and helpful."
Tom Cowan
Australian Cinematographer, Writer and Director
