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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 4, 2015January 22, 2023

Bullying in the NHS

The following is an extract of a recent letter sent to the Clinical Lead of Psychiatry for older adults in NHS Forth Valley. I have redacted certain names:

This was recently published in the BMJ:

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Categories: Ageing, Alzheimer's disease, Antidepressant prescribing, CANTABmobile, Dementia, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Screening, Stigma, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: 2 cultures, A letter that caused lasting damage to my career, A letter to Professor Jason Leitch, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, An Interview, Antiquary, Arts, Associate Medical Director, authenticity, blacklisted, blacklisting, BMJ, bullying, Bullying in the NHS, Cabinet Minister for Health and Wellbeing, candour, Change Page: “Don’t use antipsychotics routinely to treat agitation and aggression in people with dementia, Clinical Lead of Psychiatry for older adults in NHS Forth Valley, Consultant, courage to care, Cumberlege Review, Delirium Screening, Doing damage in delirium, Doing damage in delirium the hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people, Dr Brian Robson, Dr Cesar Rodriguez, Dr Linda Wolff, Dr Neil Houston, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Peter Murdoch, Dr Rhona Morrison, Dr Vivek Pattan, duty of candour, Freedom to speak up, Glasgow Declaration, Governance of NHS Scotland, Haloperidol in Scotland, Haloperidol prescribing in NHS Scotland, he panel had wanted me to be "more emphatic" about the complex questions asked, Hole Ousia, Hospital prescribing of Haloperidol in your NHS Health Board area, Humility, I am of the view that an effective medical practitioner should be true to oneself., I failed in this interview, I failed this interview, I had feedback after my interview which indicated that the panel had felt I was “too personal”, I prefer not to play-act a professional role, Iatrogenic stigma, improvement science, Improvement science and consent: a failure of NHS Governance, Incorrigibly plural, Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, Infusion of worldwide teas, intelligent kindness, Intelligent Kindness: Reforming the Culture of Healthcare, Interview, Jane Grant, lad of parts, Language, Medical Director NHS Forth Valley, medical humanities, more emphatic, My concerns over prescribing of antipsychotic drugs like Haloperidol in a frail elderly population led me to raise a petition for a Sunshine Act with the Scottish Government, My view is that being true to oneself is important to healing, NHS Consultant, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Governance, NHS Scotland, NHS TAYSIDE, openness, Organisational Duty of Candour, Parliament: PE1493: A Sunshine Act for Scotland, pathology, PE1493, Peter Gordon, Prescribed harm, professional language, Professor Jason Leitch, rebel antiquary, Renaissance of polymaths, Robert Francis, sapere aude, Sciences, Scotland's approach to dementia diagnosis, Scottish Government, Shona Robison, Sir Robert Francis, Social maverick, Stigma and psychiatry: Window Tax, Sunshine Act, The Antiquary, The BMJ, The faltering unfaltering steps, The Glasgow Declaration, the humanities and arts., The interview panel seemed uninterested in my wider reading/experience of science, the other side of the fence, the over-certain doctor insists, The Rebel Antiquary, The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm], the worst bullying in the NHS is often doctor-on-doctor, too personal, Tracey Gillies, Transparency, truly madly deeply, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Unknown to me Dr Linda Wolff phoned the Chair of the Interview panel ahead of my interview, We need a Renaissance of Generalists, why ethics matters to us all, Written submission by Dr Peter J Gordon to the Scottish Parliament on NHS Governance

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