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A costometer in overdrive
Aracataca
My uncle, who was President of Zambia
A selection of a selection of a selection
What matters to me
Glen of Enlightenment
Frailty and “common misunderstandings”
Musing, he walked out the entrance gate
Follow a line. Follow an idea. Follow a story. Follow a rhythm
“Sink”
even emotions
Paestum
The development of healthcare Guidelines should be fully open
I don’t want this isolation
The wonderful world between the microscope and the telescope
‘An academic experience like no other’
Skills and experience: “thrown on the scrap heap”
Fate of Scotland’s ‘Modern Ruin’ uncertain
NICE reconsults on depression guidelines
“Blunts intellectual curiosity”
The right words are crucial
Created poetry from pain
Many years on from speaking up
Young Thrush singing their hearts out in our garden
‘blow that argument to smithereens’
FIN
The RCPsych International Congress 2017 “performed well”
But today no alien marginalia can dim the purity
Culture of openness and transparency
‘We must look at the whole impact of revalidation’
The President’s Medal Winners
‘Keep taking the tablets’
‘Long term antidepressant use linked to ________________’
He predicted one of the rarest events in the solar system
‘Rebranding Psychiatry’
#ChoosePsychiatry
Off-Label Prescriptions
“The Inflamed Mind”
Speak, Memory
The Devil’s Pulpit
“Vociferous about pet projects”
SPA CLEAN
Scotland needs to create space for all voices
HMS Proserpine
Tor-na-coille orchard
Digamma
“RCPsych Congress . . . it’s all you need!”
The British Journal of Psychiatry: are competing interests of authors sufficiently transparent?
Those September Swallows
Antidepressants (Overuse)
We need far mair like Rashiebog!
My mind’s full of things nobody else thinks about
‘This dichotomy is an extraordinary one’
Leading to an orchard
They don’t make days like they used to
Who knew such colours
An infinite avenue
RSM Health Matters Podcast: Episode 1 – Antidepressants
I need to get back to my gardening
Delve into brilliant minds
‘Keith did not go quietly’
Strong Clinical Leadership
Healthcare Improvement Scotland was “not aware”
‘A formidable armoury’
‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
‘Stay out or I will eat you’
If morning ever comes
The caption is wrong
Paroxetine tablets [Film-Coated]
‘Good to refresh my memory of this’
Experience is the best teacher
To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom
‘How to lose your fear of Data’
The sacramentum
‘to occasionally let out a burst of calculated candour’
“FULLY BOOKED”
Drue Heinz
To write in the dialect of his country
A whole garden made out of love
Bring me sunshine
A voyage to Australia
La Teste
What if I can’t imagine another culture?
Bring me a sunshine act
“What a splendid death”
Can you unfeel that?
admissions of doubt
Putting caring conversations into practice
Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
Mind The Gap
House prices pick up but a boom is unlikely
A Sunshine Act for Scotland
A one-man peaceful protest outside the Scottish Parliament
“The charmed inner circle of Official Scotland”
I N S I G H T
Just being with her
Those summers in Argyll
Household name
The little things that count
G A R A G E
Perhaps I am living life in a different way
Transient and unexpected beauty
Key opinion leaders and Industry: Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
Special partnerships
NHS warker urgin Scottish Government tae introduce Sunshine Act
‘Monty’: a doctor and Troll
‘She was my last dog’
21
Latuda promotion “high standards had not been maintained”
Marketing of Latuda in NHS Scotland
Mental Welfare Commission: “This isn’t a priority for us”
Ars moriendi
Transparency can be easy
Waiting for the last bus
It was the glitter-freeze
Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
“Our voice”: is it actually ours?
Left-behind gateway
A fragile narrative or non-narrative
LIGHTways
1 in 7
A letter in the Times: ‘Pills for depression’
For some, candour need not be a “duty”
Arts and sciences: a modern antisyzygy
Words and numbers should be used with equal care
Antidepressant prescribing and informed consent
Science Media Centre
Are there now more ‘toolkits’ in healthcare than in B & Q?
Controlled fury
Two years of no sunshine
A house within a house
Antidepressant prescribing: still much to learn
Orchardhead, Bothkennar
Glasgow Memory Clinic
Scotland’s Close
The Snapping Doctor
Washed up letter
Should not be confused with
“Openness is the next priority”
We were very sensitive about colours at that time
Validation
#ChoosePsychiatry
Cell Mates
Kintore’s Suffragette
A Far Cry from Kensington
“Villains and Demonisers”
Not all of us receive the ends that we deserve
I would have perished had I not persisted
An interior of others
Eastend, Carmichael

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