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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 11, 2015April 21, 2023

“Conservative prescribing”

This editorial, an opinion piece by Prof David Healy, was recently published in the BMJ. In this post I intend to explore the arguments made around whether “chemical imbalance” was … Continue reading “Conservative prescribing”

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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 8, 2015January 17, 2023

Not fitting the pattern

This is a post about the mental health debate held at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 6th January 2015. Alexander McCall Smith wrote to me recently recommending this book (appreciating … Continue reading Not fitting the pattern

Categories: Ageing, Antidepressant prescribing, Architecture, Classification of mental illness, Delirium, Depression, Evolutionary medicine, Family history, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Scotland, Screening, Stigma, suicide, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2 cultures, 6 January 2015, A M Daniels, a memoir in blindness, A pattern language, A study of the link between Scottish literature Medicine and Health, Aesculapian, Aesculapian Club, Aesculapius, antidepressant prescribing, antipsychotic prescribing, Antiquary, Auld Reekie, author, biomedical determinism, Birth of television, C.P. Snow, Candia McWilliam, Cannongate, Chief Medical Officer, Chrys Muirhead, courage to care, Crichton's Close, Crichton's Close (Revisited), Dr Iona Heath, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Richard Simpson, Edinburgh, Emma M Jackson, Erving Goffman, F R leavis, Functional blindness, functional disorder, FY2 doctor, Gadamer, George Mackay Brown, Gerd Gigerenzer, Henry Rollin, Hilary and Steven Rose, Hole Ousia, Iatrogenic stigma, Inventor, It is by living we learn, January 2015, John Logie Baird, John Mason, Kant, Kenneth Calman, learning to live with uncertainty is a daring task, Life is short and Art is Long, lived experience, Makars and Mediciners, Mary Brooksbank, medical humanities, Medicine: science or art?, meet you at the statue in an hour, mental health, mental health debate, Minister for Sport Health Improvement and Mental Health, MSP, My mind turned to a visit to the parliament five years before with my daughter's primary school class, Narrative, Neurogenetic determinism, Neuroscience, never have we had so much need of storytelling and its healing powers, NHS Scotland, Not fitting the pattern, nullius in verba, On the Other side of the fence, patients whose symptoms don't quite fit the pattern, Peter Gordon, Philosophical Medical Ethics, poet, Presiding Officer, Psychiatry, psychiatry must broaden its knowledge base, psychological therapies, Rachel Fiona Gordon, rebel antiquary, Reckoning with risk, Red balloon, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Royal Mile, sapere aude, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Poetry Library, Sir Harry Burns, Social maverick, stigma, story telling, storytelling centre, target-driven activities, target-driven medicine, targets, Televisor, thank goodness there was no "routine" cognitive screening as mandated by Healthcare Improvement Scotland!, that the whole of this society owes to Aesculapius, The ae half of the warld thinks the tither daft, The Antiquary, The biology of the future and the future of biology, The Enigma of Health, the other side of the fence, The patient paradox, The Rebel Antiquary, the role of fear in overdiagnosis and overtreatment, The Scottish parliament is a most wonderful building. Rich in pattern and in materials., the warld's ill-divided, Theodore Dalrymple, they call me mad, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vivendo Discimus, Walter Scott, Waverley, Wescu, Window tax

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