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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Oct 11, 2018October 11, 2018

The over-certain doctor insists

Quotes by Evelyn Waugh, Candia McWilliams, Anton Chekov, and John MacMurray:

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, NHS Scotland, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, suicide, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Anton Chekov, BMJ, Clare Gerada, doctor, Dr George Dawson, Dr Samei Huda, Evelyn Waugh, George Dawson, Julian Barnes, Ken Calman, over-certain, Paul Morrison, pill shaming, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Psychiatry, psychology, Real Psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine, RSM, Samei Huda, Sunsine Act, Wendy Burn, Wounded Healer

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