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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 10, 2021

GORGET OINTMENT

I have had a longstanding interest in old pharmacy and chemist shops. This interest began in childhood! One of my earliest memories was from my pram: above me I could … Continue reading GORGET OINTMENT

Categories: Architecture, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 163 year old landmark, 19 Grassmarket, A I McCallum, Alexander Inglis McCallum, an 18th century pharmacy closes, Antiquary, Apothecary, April 1960, Boots, Buckstone, C G Drummond, chemist, chemists, Colinton, Cupar, died on the same day, Doctor Marigold’s prescriptions, druggist, Dufftown, Dumfries, Edinburgh, existential fear, Forres, Gabriel García Márquez, Galston, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Gordons, Gorget Ointment, Grassmarket, H B Wyllie, Haddington, Harry Boak Wyllie, Hippocrates, Hole Ousia, How much is too much medicine, Huntly, In a time of too much medicine, Ivan Illich, Jekyll and Hyde, Linlithgow, Living to tell the Tale, McDuff, mortar, mortar and pestle, Nairn, Oban, Omphalos, Omphalos films, one-third gin and two-thirds Ginger Beer, over-medicalisation, over-prescribing, Perth, pestle, Peter J Gordon, Pharmacy, pharmacy signs, PRAM, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Realistic Medicine, Realistic Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, reductionism, Robert Louis Stevenson, Royal Mile, Scotland, Social maverick, Strathallan pharmacy, The Antiquary, The chemist and Druggist, The long day closes, The Rebel Antiquary, to prescribe is to aquire property over the course of time, Too much Medicine, Unrealistic Medicine, windows and doors, You think so much of yoursel

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 15, 2016January 25, 2021

Were we asleep at the wheel?

At the beginning of June 2008 I sent an e-mail to Dr Leon Eisenberg, a former child psychiatrist, and a man of philosophy and science: Dr Eisenberg was then 89 … Continue reading Were we asleep at the wheel?

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Classification of mental illness, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, NHS Hospitality Registers, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Two culturesTags: ADHD, Big Pharma, brainlessness, existential fear, IHI, Leon Eisenberg, mindlessness, overdiagnosis, overmedicalisation, PE1651, philosophy, Prescribed harm, Psychiatry, Too much Medicine, USA, Were we asleep at the wheel

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 28, 2015November 27, 2017

My lovely furry wolfskin coat

This is a film about inappropriate and unhelpful medicalisation and the lasting effects that this can have. This film refers to no living professionals.

Categories: UncategorizedTags: existential fear, harm, iatrogenic, interventionism, marketing, Medicalisation, over-medicalisation, Psychiatry, quackery, Realistic Medicine, reductionism, short-termism, stigma, the need to do, to fix

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