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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 18, 2022March 20, 2023

I know you now

This lovely poem by Richard Munro was recently ‘Poem of the Week’ in the Scotsman. When I am in Edinburgh city centre I eat my sandwich lunch on the bench … Continue reading I know you now

Categories: Architecture, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 'Poem of the Week' in the Scotsman, A Doctor's Line, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, Allan Beveridge, Andrew Duncan, Antiquary, Cannongate, Canongate Kirk, Crichton's Close (Revisited), Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, February 2022, Freedom to speak up (punctuated by philosophy), Gerrard Carruthers, Hole Ousia, I know you now, Kenneth Calman, meet you at the statue in an hour, Omphalos, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, poem of the week, Poems, poet, poetry, Rab Wilson, rebel antiquary, Richard Munro, Robert Fergusson, Royal Mile, Social maverick, Spike, statue, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Upon yer whunstane hearts, When I am in Edinburgh city centre I eat my sandwich lunch on the bench beside the statue of Robert Fergusson, Worry undone

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 11, 2017January 28, 2023

A Doctor’s Line

Professor Sir Kenneth C Calman give a talk on ‘Scottish Literature and Medicine’ at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on the 11th January 2017. It was a wonderful … Continue reading A Doctor’s Line

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, NHS Scotland, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 11 January 2017, A Doctor's Line, A window in Thrums, an anthology of novels poems and short stories, Antiquary, As Freidson noted - Medicine should not be without lay evaluation, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Cannongate, Chancellor, collecting commonplaces, collecting commonplaces like a kid gathering the first fall of conkers, Commonplace book, Differential Calculus of the Mind, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, five drops he now added to Peter's cup, Former Chief Medical Officer, Gerrard Carruthers, Glasgow, Gregory Smith, grew out of a short course on medical ethics, Hole Ousia, I go nowhere without a notebook, Incorrigibly plural, It sometimes becomes evident that the power of the narrator is greater than that of the learned professor, Kenneth C Calman, Kenneth Calman, Life is short and Art is Long, Literature, Makars and Mediciners, medical or lay, medicine, meet you at the statue in an hour, multifarious learners, over the years I have actively searched for pieces and quotes which have meant something special to me, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Poems, poet, poetry, poetry and prescriptions in health and healing, poetry and science, polymath, Realistic Medicine, rebel antiquary, Robert Fergusson, Ronald Ross, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Mile, scientist or artist, Scotland, Scottish Literature and Medicine, Social maverick, Some of my "notes" on A Doctor's Line, specialisation, Susan Calman, The Antiquary, the medical profession has moved from a profession of generalists to one of specialists, The Rebel Antiquary, there is still much to read - to learn and to enjoy, To see oursels as ithers see us, Two Cultures, University of Glasgow

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 8, 2015January 17, 2023

Not fitting the pattern

This is a post about the mental health debate held at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 6th January 2015. Alexander McCall Smith wrote to me recently recommending this book (appreciating … Continue reading Not fitting the pattern

Categories: Ageing, Antidepressant prescribing, Architecture, Classification of mental illness, Delirium, Depression, Evolutionary medicine, Family history, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Scotland, Screening, Stigma, suicide, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2 cultures, 6 January 2015, A M Daniels, a memoir in blindness, A pattern language, A study of the link between Scottish literature Medicine and Health, Aesculapian, Aesculapian Club, Aesculapius, antidepressant prescribing, antipsychotic prescribing, Antiquary, Auld Reekie, author, biomedical determinism, Birth of television, C.P. Snow, Candia McWilliam, Cannongate, Chief Medical Officer, Chrys Muirhead, courage to care, Crichton's Close, Crichton's Close (Revisited), Dr Iona Heath, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Richard Simpson, Edinburgh, Emma M Jackson, Erving Goffman, F R leavis, Functional blindness, functional disorder, FY2 doctor, Gadamer, George Mackay Brown, Gerd Gigerenzer, Henry Rollin, Hilary and Steven Rose, Hole Ousia, Iatrogenic stigma, Inventor, It is by living we learn, January 2015, John Logie Baird, John Mason, Kant, Kenneth Calman, learning to live with uncertainty is a daring task, Life is short and Art is Long, lived experience, Makars and Mediciners, Mary Brooksbank, medical humanities, Medicine: science or art?, meet you at the statue in an hour, mental health, mental health debate, Minister for Sport Health Improvement and Mental Health, MSP, My mind turned to a visit to the parliament five years before with my daughter's primary school class, Narrative, Neurogenetic determinism, Neuroscience, never have we had so much need of storytelling and its healing powers, NHS Scotland, Not fitting the pattern, nullius in verba, On the Other side of the fence, patients whose symptoms don't quite fit the pattern, Peter Gordon, Philosophical Medical Ethics, poet, Presiding Officer, Psychiatry, psychiatry must broaden its knowledge base, psychological therapies, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Reckoning with risk, Red balloon, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Royal Mile, sapere aude, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Poetry Library, Sir Harry Burns, Social maverick, stigma, story telling, storytelling centre, target-driven activities, target-driven medicine, targets, Televisor, thank goodness there was no "routine" cognitive screening as mandated by Healthcare Improvement Scotland!, that the whole of this society owes to Aesculapius, The ae half of the warld thinks the tither daft, The Antiquary, The biology of the future and the future of biology, The Enigma of Health, the other side of the fence, The patient paradox, The Rebel Antiquary, the role of fear in overdiagnosis and overtreatment, The Scottish parliament is a most wonderful building. Rich in pattern and in materials., the warld's ill-divided, Theodore Dalrymple, they call me mad, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Scott, Waverley, Wescu, Window tax

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