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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 11, 2022March 13, 2022

[ F U N C T I O N A L ]

I retired as a doctor 2 years ago. My career was in psychiatry for older adults and I succesfully campaigned for a Timely approach to the diagnosis of dementia. I … Continue reading [ F U N C T I O N A L ]

Categories: Alzheimer's disease, Classification of mental illness, Delirium, Dementia, History of medicine, NHS Scotland, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, Two culturesTags: #followthefellows, #hisgoingglobal, a tool for every job, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Act, ACT for Functional Cognitive Disorders, Awar, BMJ, BMJ 2017;359:j4515, costometer, courage to care, cult, culture, Dashboards, Dementia, Deming, Derek Feeley, Director General, Don Berwick, enigma of health, ethics, Evidence Scan, Experiment, Fear of missing out on conferences, Florida Jaunt, FND Hope, Freedom to speak up, fridge magnets, Functional, Functional Cognitive disorder, Functional disorders, Golden lion Hotel, Health Foundation, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, HIS, hubs, iatrogenesis, IHI, IHI Fellows, IHI International forum, IHI International Forum: 'How to convince your boss', improvement methodology, improvement science, Improvement work, Industrialisation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Institute of Healthcare Improvement, intelligent kindness, Jason Leitch, Le Corbusier, mantra, Mary Midgley, MCI, mechanical language, Mechanical metaphors, medicines taken as prescribed, National Clinical Director, National Health Service (Scotland) Act, NHS Scotland, NIHR202743, OBE, Omphalos, Omphalos films, OPAC, Payments from NHS Scotland to the USA, philosophy, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Professor Jason Leitch, Psychiatry, QI, QI connect, Quality & Safety Fellows, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement for NHS Board Members, Realize your dreams, realize your dreans, Red Road, reductionism, Rev. I. M. Jolly, Robert K Merton, Science, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Philosophy & Psychiatry, Scottish Philosophy and Psychiatry Special Interest Group, St George's Hospital, Stirling, subjective-objective divide, takeover, taxpayers foot the bill for healthcare chief's jaunts, Temple of Decision, the full toolset, The Health Foundation, This frightful word, Toolkits, Tools, tools of the trade, Traffic lights, truly madly deeply, USA, what it says on the tin, What matters to me, What matters to you, why ethics matter, why ethics matters to us all, William Edwards Deming, World leading

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 31, 2020December 31, 2020

MAIN STEAM

These are the words of Richard Holloway from his book ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’. The background image is of one of the control panels at Ardeer Power Station. I visited … Continue reading MAIN STEAM

Categories: Architecture, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: and histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Antiquary, Ardeer, Behind the graph lie a million stories, Canongate, dominant story, dominant-story story, Edinburgh, evaporated, Freedom to speak, Freedom to speak up, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, John Grant, Let it Go, MAIN STEAM, Mainstream, mainstream psychiatry, making meaning in a meaningless universe, power, Power Station, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Scotland, Scottish International Storytelling festival, Social maverick, Soft Power, steam evaporation, stories we hear and stories we tell, Stories we tell ourselves, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2020June 12, 2022

For my mum and dad

Please click on each image to play each short film on Edinburgh. These films are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year … Continue reading For my mum and dad

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 153 High Street, 1844, 1904, 1908, 44 Scotland Street, A Far Cry from Kensington, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Abbotsford, ageing, Ageing stone, air-raid shelter, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, Baudolino, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Bridge of Allan, bring me sunshine, Bute House, By living we learn, Calcutta Cup, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Calton Old Burial Ground, Cammo, Cammo - I want to be part of history, Canongate, Canonmills, canonmills loch, Carubber's Manse, Castlebank Laundry, Charlotte Square, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christopher Lloyd, Cities in Evolution, Colinton, Constance Gibson, Constance Scott, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, Craigmillar Laundry, Damon 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wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh, [in its ending] Scotland Street Station

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 28, 2020January 10, 2022

messages

I resigned from NHS Forth Valley 6 years ago. This was a most difficult decision for me to take. I had worked as a Consultant in older adults in Clackmannanshire … Continue reading messages

Categories: History of medicine, NHS Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: A Sunshine Act for Scotland, activism, activist, Alzheimer Scotland, Baroness Cumberlege, Bridge of Allan, courage to care, Cumberlege Review, Dementia, doctor, Dr Linda Wolff, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Peter J Gordon, duty of candour, ethics, Fellow, first do no harm, Freedom to speak up, Glasgow Declaration, Hole Ousia, I dont want this isolation, I resigned on principle and with an unblemished career., Iatrogenic stigma, IHI, isolation, mental Welfare Commission, messages, Messages about my retirement from the profession of Medicine, mismanagement, Mossgrove, NHS, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Governance, NHS Scotland, Omphalos, Omphalos films, over-medicalisation, overmedicalisation, PE1493, PE1651, Peter Gordon, Peter's Declaration, Peter's Lost Marbles, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, RCPsych, Realistic Medicine, Realistic Psychiatry, Robert Francis, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Scottish Government, Scottish Health Council, Scottish Parliament, SPSP, stigma, Testimonials, The report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, The Scottish Patient Safety Programme, timely diagnosis, Too much Medicine, Transparency

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