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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Dec 3, 2018December 3, 2018

A beacon of light

I recently read a fellow healthcare professional describe Professor Wendy Burn, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, as a “beacon of light”. I have always loved light and collect … Continue reading A beacon of light

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Depression, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Stigma, suicide, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: Albert Camus, and debating mental health care, beacon of light, Dr Annie Hickox, Lancet Psychiatry, More respectful debate, Niall Boyce, practising, Raymond Tallis, RCPsych, Researching, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Sarb Bajwa, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, The Plague, Wendy Burn

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Nov 5, 2018November 6, 2018

Pattern language: the professionals

The Realistic Medicine conference held at Dunblane on the 9th October 2018 was entitled: Unfortunately I was unable to be at this conference. One of my concerns relates to the … Continue reading Pattern language: the professionals

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Medical writings, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Omphalos films, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Stigma, suicide, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Two culturesTags: 1 in 5, a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, a narrative of privilege, ABPI, activists, Albert Camus, Andrea Cipriani, authenticity, Bad Pharma, Barack Obama, Ben Goldacre, blot, bureaucratic defensiveness, C.P. Snow, Carmine Pariante, Catherine Calderwood, CFS, Charles Dickens, Citalopram, Clare Gerada, CME, cognitive dissonance, Continuing Medical Education, Corridors of Power, credible, denial, Des Spence, Dr David Christmas, Dr George Dawson, Dr John Crichton, Dr Mark Taylor, Dr Michael Murray, Dr Paul Morrison, duloxetine, EBM, Establishment, ethics, evidence based medicine, evidence by experience, Fiona Godlee, Fluoxetine, Friends of Liberty, fully informed consent, General Medical Council, Geoff Huggins, GMCV, GSK, Hamish McAllister-Williams, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, heartsink, HIS, hyperbole, hysterical, Ian C Reid, incredible, John F Kennedy, Key Opinion Leader, Keyhe Matthews, KOL, label, labeling, Labelling, law of the few, Liz Lochhead, Marion Brown, Mark Bolstridge, Me, Medical Establishment, Medics against Violence, Mental Elf, Mirtazapine, NHS Scotland, No bias, No spin, Owen Jones, PACE trial, Paid Opinion Leader, Patrick Geddes, Paul D Morrison, Paul Gray, Paul Rees, PE1493, PE1517 Polypropylene Mesh Medical Devices, PE1651, Peter J Gordon, petition, pill shaming, Positively clubby nexus, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prof Allan Young, Prof Anthony Cleare, Prof David Taylor, Professor David Nutt, Professor Guy Goodwin, Professor Michael Sharpe, Professor Stephen Lawrie, Promiscuous, Przac, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Ray Moynihan, RCPsych, RCPsych Scotland, Realistic Medicine, Royal College of Psychiatrists, rules, Samei Huda, Science, Science Media Centre, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Seroxat, Simon Wessely, Sink, SMC, stain, stigma, subjective-objective divide, Sunshine Act, the use of patronage, Too much Medicine, Transparency, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Valuing People, Vanessa Cameron, Venlafaxine, villains, Vince Cable, Walter Humes, Wendy Burn, where science meets the headlines

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Oct 5, 2018

Heal

This is a film about Oban Hydropathic. Work began on this in 1880 but was abandoned two years later. A further attempt was made to complete the Hydropathic in 1896 … Continue reading Heal

Categories: Architecture, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Albert Camus, Gabriel García Márquez, harbour, heal, Healing, Hydropath, Hydropathic, Janice Galloway, Julian Barnes, McCaig's tower, Oban, ruin, Tom Odell

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Oct 2, 2018October 2, 2018

The Great Garden

We are just home from a wonderful short-break at Kinlochlaich Gardens, Argyll. Both Peter and Sian are keen gardeners. We visited the island of Lismore taking the ferry from Port … Continue reading The Great Garden

Categories: Family history, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A L Kennedy, Albert Camus, Andrew Greig, Appin, Architect, Argyll, C Duncan, Cars in the Garden, Connel, cycling, Evelyn Waugh, Ferry, gardens, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Kinlochlaich, Lismore, Oban, Paul Buchanan, Port Appin, Port Ramsay, the Great Garden, Yann Martel

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