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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, 2020March 29, 2021

For my mum and dad

These films about Edinburgh are for my mum and dad. Mrs Picken, an elderly widow, who day after day, year after year, left an apple on her window-sill for me … 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, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, Abbotsford, Albyn's Anthology, Alexander McCall Smith, Allan Ramsay, Allan Ramsay's House, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Baron Grantley, beautiful summer, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, 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, Carubber's Manse, Charlotte Square, Christopher Lloyd, Colinton, Constitution Street, Controlled Fury, cradle of the legitimate drama, Craiglockhart, David Livingstone, dawdle to sniff the beauty of the world, designed for use in a rebellion, distressed furniture, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Samuel Brown, Dunira, Dunira's Lost garden, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh half-marathon, Edinburgh marathon, Edinburgh Zoo, Falcon Hall, Films about Edinburgh, Fletcher Norton, Florence Nightingale, Follow Me, Francis Seymour Haden, Freedom to speak up, Full of Energy, gateways, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gilmerton House, Hatton, Hawkhill, Hawkhill House, Henry Dundas, Hermits and Termits, histories never end but go on living in their consequences, Hole Ousia, I had a project as a tiny boy, Indy-Ref, It is by living we learn, James Clerk Maxwell, Jessie lennox, John Wilson, Joseph Gerrald, keepsake, Kipps, labour of omission, Left-behind gateway, Liberty, magically reached out, Mary Brooksbank, Maurice Margarot, Mavisbank, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, Methven Simpson, MLA distinction, Monument to the Political Martyrs', Morningside, Mrs Picken, Murrayfield, Murrayfield stadium, Napier Road, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], New Town, newspaper boy, Nick Cave, Nobel prize, Nor' loch, North Loch, Omphalos, Omphalos films, ORPHAN Hospital [ Site of], Partick Geddes, Past and present, Past and Present (to catch the watcher's eye), Patrick Geddes, PE1493, Peter Gordon, Peter John Gordon, Physic Garden, Pipe Lane, Pipe Lane Public Toilets, Platform 11, Playhouse Close, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, Police Boxes, Political Martyrs, Prince Street, Princes Street Gardens, Prodrums, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Repeats its love, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Sibbald, Rockville, rugby, Scotland, Scottish Chapter Prize, Scottish Government, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish Parliament, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Square, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, St Andrew Square, St Andrew's House, St Andrew's Square, statue, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Survives as a pair of gate-posts far away, Tapestry of Scotland, The Antiquary, the black lady, The BMJ, The friends of liberty, The Great Tapestry of Scotland, The making of the future, The Rebel Antiquary, the texture of time, the warld's ill-divided, The well tempered garden, Theatre, This plethora of detail, Thomas Fyshe Palmer, Thomas Muir, Thomas Transtömer, Tomb of the Red lady, Traditionalism: Edinburgh's dilemma, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Scott, Warriston Cemetery, Waverley, weather bomb, Well tempered Garden, wheesht to your omphaloi, wheesht to your omphalos, Wilfred owen, William Henry Playfair, William Skirving, Wrecking Edinburgh

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 28, 2020March 31, 2021

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

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 25, 2020September 21, 2020

Peter’s Declaration

I have been updating my OMPHALOS films and have added this film from June 2019. At this Whistleblowing Event for NHS Scotland [though I prefer the term ‘Freedom to Speak … Continue reading Peter’s Declaration

Categories: Ageing, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Family history, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, NHS Scotland, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Screening, This is Not yesterdayTags: Alzheimer, Alzheimer Scotland, Alzheimer's, blacklisted, blacklisting, Dementia, DGHSC, early diagnosis, ethics, Freedom to speak up, Glasgow Declaration, HEAT target 4, mis-diagnosis, misdiagnosis, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Scotland, patients first, Peter's Declaration, Rab Wilson, Scottish Government, Sir Robert Francis, target culture, timely diagnosis, whistleblowing

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