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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 16, 2021

Part of the conversation

I could never be a leader, I do not want to lead. I just want to be part of the conversation. I don’t want to be labelled, I do not … Continue reading Part of the conversation

Categories: Classification of mental illness, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Neuro-genetic determinism, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: biomedical determinism, biomedical reduction, categorisation, disorder, Dr Peter Gordon, DSM, Hole Ousia, ICD, Is this my sensitivity or that of the world?, label, labeling, Part of the conversation, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Scottish Poetry Library, Social maverick, The Rebel Antiquary, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 10, 2021

“Perceived”

Presented with uncertain symptoms the doctor, a diligent scientist, checked every bit of data that had ever been established: evidence-based and randomised controlled. This empathic doctor [a natural worrier] re-checked … Continue reading “Perceived”

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Stigma, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, “Perceived”, Baroness Cumberlege, By living we learn, Cumberlege Review, doctor, doctors, EBM, evidence based medicine, Evidence comes in all forms, first do no harm, FND, Hole Ousia, It is by living we learn, John Macmurray, medicine, MUS, On the Other side of the fence, patient, patients, Patrick Geddes, PE1651, Peter Gordon, poem, poetry, Poets, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prescribed harm, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Randomised Controlled, Randomised Controlled Trial, RCT, rebel antiquary, Science, Scottish Poetry Library, Social maverick, stigma, The Antiquary, the other side of the fence, The Rebel Antiquary, The report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, Vivendo Discimus, Window tax

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

Which novel has sold most?

This question was asked in last week’s Sunday TIMES: Of course there is no complete data to refer to but it is thought that Don Quixote tops the list. It … Continue reading Which novel has sold most?

Categories: Architecture, Family history, gardens, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'bird-coop of the muses', 1967, a modern ruin, A study in literature and Medicine, abandoned, adventure, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Corsewall lighthouse, Don Quixote, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, ethics, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Girnoc, Girnock, Hale Bopp, He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, he said another three thousand pieces of nonsense, Hippocrates, Hole Ousia, Howards End, hunchback, I cannot be equal I am humbled, I emerge now carrying all my yeaRS, I emerge now carrying all my years on my back, Ian Collins, In the Middle, It is by living we learn, It was a dangerous time to be human to fell or to think or to care, Kilmadock, learning to love like this, legislators, lines with unfinished endings, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, lost, Lost Strathdon, Madame Bovary, Marginalia, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, Nineteen eighty-four, Novel, Oceania, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter J Gordon, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, Scottish Poetry Library, Seroxat, Sian Fiona Williams, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, something that could astonish an entire university no matter how learned, Sparta, Speak Memory, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, Temple of the Muses, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rules of Science, the sky is not little, The stories of a small glen, The Times, the two cultures, they marveled at his madness, through wastelands and crossroads, to be humbled, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, versos de cabo rato, Vivendo Discimus, well is there anyone who isn't tangent, what a lot of things you've strung together willy-nilly, Which novel has sold most?, with heart as gentle for distress, Woodend Hospital

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 2, 2020

sanctum

She sang with her mother sanctum

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, Concrete poetry, Hole Ousia, Iain Crichton Smith, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta, Mossgrove, one word poem, one word poems, Peter Gordon, poet poem, poetry, Poor Old Tired Horse, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Sanctum Sanctorum, Scottish Poetry Library, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, The Rebel Antiquary, Two Girls Singing

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