being and becoming in the world
As an NHS psychiatrist for over 25 years I have naturally been interested in all issues related to psychiatry. Here, I share this.
I have submitted the following rapid response to the BMJ Editorial: The potential and limits of scrutiny in medical research: Thank you editor for welcoming ideas on this important matter. … Continue reading The potential and limits of scrutiny in medical research
This is an old piece of writing. It was written over a decade ago. The ‘Ten considerations’ are based on titles of creative works by Robert Louis Stevenson: Gilbert Farie, … Continue reading Gilbert Farie: Ten considerations
After taking more than two years out of medicine to study Landscape Architecture with the University of Edinburgh, I returned to Aberdeen as a newly married man. After an interview … Continue reading Strathbogie ward
This Opinion piece by Sabira Hughes, as published in the BMJ, can be read here. I have submitted this reply [see below]. All the published replies can be read here … Continue reading Doctors should be aware of the professional risks that social media exposes them to
Chipped Tooth The administrator now the administered. Pulse-oximeter sirens a frenzied fear, friendly faces pace in busyness managing checklists to the unknown. Man-made epilepsy in-a-box. Temples numbing – signify it … Continue reading Psychiatry in fabula
1986: Peter Gordon, a second year Medical Student, University of Aberdeen. The motto for the university is Initium sapientiae timor Domini [The beginning of wisdom]:
To: Dr Lade Smith, CBE, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 14th October 2025 Dear Dr Lade Smith, Thank you for taking the time to reply in response to … Continue reading College Values and social media
Surely, it is impossible for a forgotten, abandoned, and whacked-out-wreck-of-a-car, to ‘say’ anything meaningful about today’s approach to science and health? SPEEDY [honeythief]: To play this short film please click … Continue reading SPEEDY [honeythief]