being and becoming in the world
This paper was published in the Lancet in late last year. It is a two page article that is worth reading in full. All screenshots below are from this paper: … Continue reading “Doing damage in delirium the hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people”
A BMJ Open study has found that less than half the prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs issued in primary care in the United Kingdom are for the serious mental illnesses for … Continue reading Antipsychotic prescribing
A Scottish citizen, over the age of 65 years, recently wrote to a Parliamentarian with concerns about mandatory cognitive screening in Scotland’s acute hospitals. Following this a helpful letter was … Continue reading “At Liberty” (cognitive screening)
I have sent the following as a Freedom of Information request to 14 NHS Boards in Scotland. All the responses, including tables of statistics, can be read here. 7 November … Continue reading Hospital prescribing of Haloperidol in your NHS Health Board area
In May 2014 the Executive Clinical Director for Healthcare Improvement Scotland [HIS] sent a letter to my employers NHS Forth Valley setting out formally a range of concerns about my … Continue reading Scientific progress requires open-minded enquiry
A number of people have asked me to try and summarise my considerations on delirium assessment. In what follows I will also try and outline an alternative approach to the … Continue reading Delirium Screening
This short closing section on “delirium” has taken as a title a few words from Love in the time of Cholera. I have read this book several times and the … Continue reading Infusion of worldwide teas
Consent “Obtaining consent should be an ethical duty first and foremost, one central to respecting the autonomy and dignity of patients”[39] Informed consent is crucial for patients but it is … Continue reading The ethical management of forgetfulness