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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Aug 25, 2019

Orwell’s proposed Preface to Animal Farm

an edit by Peter:

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: @ProfRobHoward, a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, Animal Farm, Barnhill, divides, Dr Peter J Gordon, Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell, Hole Ousia, Jura, Key Opinion Leader, Key Opinion Leaders, KOL, Little Sparta, Louis Appleby, Manor Farm, Napoleon, Narrative Controllers, On the Other side of the fence, Orwell's proposed Preface to Animal Farm, over-certainty, Paid Opinion Leader, paid opinion leaders, Peter J Gordon, pig, pigs, poem, Porsolt, Prof Rob Howard, Propaganda, rats, RCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Simon Wessely, Soft Power, Squealer, subjective-objective divide, The Narrative Controllers, the over-certain doctor insists, the subjective-objective divide, Unlocking Power, Window tax

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Aug 25, 2019August 25, 2019

‘Animal Farm’

A few selected passages:

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: @ProfRobHoward, a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, Animal Farm, Barnhill, divides, Dr Peter J Gordon, Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell, Hole Ousia, Jura, Key Opinion Leader, Key Opinion Leaders, KOL, Little Sparta, Louis Appleby, Manor Farm, Napoleon, Narrative Controllers, On the Other side of the fence, over-certainty, Paid Opinion Leader, paid opinion leaders, Peter J Gordon, pig, pigs, poem, Porsolt, Prof Rob Howard, Propaganda, rats, RCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Simon Wessely, Soft Power, Squealer, subjective-objective divide, The Narrative Controllers, the over-certain doctor insists, the subjective-objective divide, Unlocking Power, Window tax

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Nov 29, 2018November 29, 2018

‘Researching, practising, and debating mental health care’

I welcome this comment by Sarb Bajwa, Niall Boyce and Wendy Burn published recently in the the Lancet Psychiatry. This is a matter that I raised with the Royal College … Continue reading ‘Researching, practising, and debating mental health care’

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Depression, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Neuro-genetic determinism, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Stigma, suicide, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Two culturesTags: #pillshaming, @PaulMor64695904, @sectioned, a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, authenticity, BPS, British Psychological Society, Clare Gerada, College Values, Conflict of interest, debate, designed to mislead, Dr Paul Morrison, ethics, extremists, from a moral vacuum, George Dawson, HR Department, Iatrogenic stigma, ill informed, irresponsible, labelled, ladder of participation, Lancet Psychiatry, Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ, Love the card, medical integrity, military metaphors, More respectful debate, most vocal, My formal instruction of resignation as a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Niall Boyce, Pattern language, Paul Morrison, Paul Rees, polarisation, pretend they care, Propaganda, RCPsych, Samei Huda, Sarb Bajwa, Science Media Centre, Simon Wessely, Sunshine legislation, The Mental Elf, the power of language use in psychiatry, the professionals, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Transparency, UCL, values, Vanessa Cameron, Wendy Burn, wholly mince, Window tax

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Nov 10, 2018December 30, 2018

Current education on Schizophrenia and substance misuse

In the public domain, Dr Samei Huda, a British Psychiatrist, has repeatedly stated that it is “propaganda” that the pharmaceutical industry has any significant role in the continuing medical education … Continue reading Current education on Schizophrenia and substance misuse

Categories: Medical Education, Medical writings, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, BAP, British Association for Psychopharmacology, Catherine Calderwood, CME, Dr George Dawson, Dr Maxine Patel, Fiona Godlee, key educators, KOL, Masterclass, paid opinion leaders, Peter J Gordon, Prescribed harm, prescribing, Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes, Professor Julia Sinclair, Professor Oliver Howes, Professor Thomas Barnes, Propaganda, Psychiatry, Ray Moynihan, RCPsych, Realistic Medicine, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Samei Huda, Schizophrenia, Substance Misuse, Sunshine light and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the integrity of medicine, Too much Medicine

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