being and becoming in the world
BMJ, 19 November 2024: Response by Amit Aggarwal, Executive Director Medical Affairs & Strategic Partnerships, The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI): Dr Peter J Gordon and Dr Sian … Continue reading ‘Moving towards zero tolerance’
This is a post about the mental health debate held at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 6th January 2015. Alexander McCall Smith recently recommended to me this book (appreciating that … Continue reading Not fitting the pattern
This is the transcript of a short film I made in late May 2011 called ‘AWOKEN‘: It forms the summarised reply by me to Wake-up call for British Psychiatry written … Continue reading Left wide awake
I posted this on Hole Ousia in March 2020: “I retired from the medical profession two months ago. My interest was in ethics. I openly asked questions. I tried to … Continue reading Had felt incredibly alone
To anti-THIS and anti-THAT – each day a new ‘recruit’ is enlisted: played out on a BINGO card. But this is not a game. In the anti-WORLD of military metaphors … Continue reading DIVISIONS
It is by the institution’s rules that we learn, said a spokesperson FOR the INSTITUTION. It is ‘brave to speak up’ for the institution, said a spokesperson FOR the INSTITUTION. … Continue reading FOR the INSTITUTION
MUNYON’S SEASONAL ADVICE, Edinburgh Evening News, 9 May 1898: “DON’T TAKE MEDICINE UNLESS YOU ARE ILL. STRONG DRUGS KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN WAR AND PESTILENCE COMBINED. UNIVERSAL PRESCRIBING WITH CURE-ALLS … Continue reading MUNYON’S SEASONAL ADVICE
Last Friday, I was invited to be part of a poetry evening with a wide range of poets. All the poems read were from the recently published anthology ‘We are … Continue reading We are the Change-Makers