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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 18, 2021

PROGRESS hardly broke its stride

A short protest film. Made 18 August 2021.

Categories: Family history, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 2021, Andrew Robert Gordon, Antiquary, Are you making progress?, Bridge of Allan, By living we learn, Climate change, Cosmic Love, Dr Patrick Geddes, Edinburgh, Florence and the Machine, fossil fuels, garden, gardener, Geddes lorry, geographer, global warming, Hole Ousia, Iain Banks, IHI, improvement science, Incorrigibly plural, It is by living we learn, Mossgrove, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Patrick Geddes, Perth, Peter Gordon, philosopher, planner, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Realistic Medicine, Realize your dreams, rebel antiquary, Scotland, Sian Fiona Williams, Social maverick, synthesis of knowledge, The Antiquary, The Beaten Generation, The Rebel Antiquary, The The, the two cultures, Too much Medicine, Two Cultures, unstoppable progress, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021

‘I would ban all politicians from Tweeting anything’

This perspective, by Alexander Brown, was printed in the Scotsman, 2nd August 2021. The following paragraphs stood out for me [given that I have long had serious concerns about the … Continue reading ‘I would ban all politicians from Tweeting anything’

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: Alexander Brown, Audacity of Hope, August 2021, core values, core values for psychiatrists, Credible or incredible - experience is evidence, Doctor's use of social media, Dr Peter J Gordon, ethics, Even in today's enlightened age, exchanges so aggressive that you’d cross the street to avoid if you heard them in real life, fully informed consent, General Medical Council, healthcare professionals, Hole Ousia, honesty, I would ban all politicians from tweeting anything, Iatrogenic stigma, industry, Key Opinion Leaders, KOL, More respectful debate, our leaders now seem to conduct politics through Twitter, paid opinion leaders, Prescribed harm, Probity, Professional values are essential here if exchanges are to be healthy, RCPsych, Realistic Psychiatry, Researching practising and debating mental health care, respectful and constructive, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal Colleges, Science is about the sharing of ideas, social media, Sunshine Act, The Scotsman, Those values are our inheritance, Too much Medicine, Transparency, twitter, values, we lead with values, what is the point of all this nastiness, Window tax

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 30, 2021

Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender

I recently read Father and Son by the writer and poet Edmund Gosse. This ‘memoir’ was written in 1907 and subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments.’ I was reminded of … Continue reading Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender

Categories: Architecture, Family history, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1798, 1827, a study of two temperaments, abandoned, absence of perspective, advertising for hunchbacks, Ali Smith, Anthony Doeer, Antiquary, ARRANGED IN A FANCIFUL MANNER AND IN AN ANCIENT STYLE, Arts, Barbara Bell, Beyond Macbeth, biomedical determinism, Bonaly, Bonaly Tower, Californian Soil, Canongate, Cormilligan, County of Ayr, Dalblair, Dandie Dinmont, Demolished, Dr Peter Gordon, Drew, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Evening News, Edmund gosse, farm, father and son, Flaubear, Flaubert, generalism, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Glasgow Necroplis, Glasgow Necropolis, Glenmuir, Glenmuir water, Goldfrapp, Guy Mannering, Hale Bopp, He cannot unlearn the feeling, Henry Cockburn, High Dalblair, His last legs, Hole Ousia, hunchback, Intro to Californian Soil, isolation, Ivan Illich, James Hyslop, James Sheridan Knowles, John Wilson, Judith Bailey Slagle, Kirkconnel, Last Legs, let it be boldly admitted, Lincoln in the Bardo, London Grammar, mean in architecture and disreputable in character, medical model, meet you at the statue, meet you at the statue in an hour, memoir, mourns the fate of Hyslop, Nabokov, narrowness, North Bridge, Old Edinburgh, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Only the grave, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, Playbills, Plymouth Brethren, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, polymaths, post office, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Rab Wilson, rebel antiquary, reductionism, renaissance, Reniassance of Polymaths, Rob Roy, Robert Louis Stevenson, ruin, ruins, scenery in a small place, Science, Scott Dramas, Scottish vocalist, Shakespeare collections in Scotland, Shakespeare Square, shepherd, Social maverick, Specialism, statue, Stifling distortions, Sylvia Plath, T S Eliot, The Accidental, The Antiquary, The Bell Jar, The Cameronian Dream, The Cameronian's Vision, THE FIRST SCENIC REALIZATIONS OF SCOTT’S WORK AND THE DESIRE FOR A NEW REALISM ON SCOTTISH STAGES, the hunchback, The Medical Model in Mental Health, The Muse, the Muse that sang the martyrs tale, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rise and Fall of the New Edinburgh Theatre Royal, The Shepherd, Theatre, Theatre Royal, Thomas Mann, Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender, Too much Medicine, trumpery in its decoration and a most miserable audience, Two Cultures, Two culures, Victor Hugo, Wake-up call for British Psychiatry, Walter Scott, Waterloo Place, William Shakespeare

By Hole Ousia Posted on June 28, 2021

‘Scotland’s terrible record on drugs deaths’

The Sunday Post, 27 June 2021, included a news special based on recently published research. Analysis by Stirling University of the prescriptions for 350,000 Scots found one in 10 was … Continue reading ‘Scotland’s terrible record on drugs deaths’

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: 1 in 10 on opiate painkillers, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, Alliance, ‘Evidence Based Medicine’ or ‘Industry Biased Medicine’, Bring me a sunshine act, Continuing Medical Education and its entanglement with the Pharmaceutical Industry, Cumberlege, Cumberlege Review, Dr Peter Gordon, drug deaths, drug dependence, first do no harm, Gathering public views on a register of interests for Scotland, Hole Ousia, iatrogenesis, kept in the dark, marketing, opiate, opiates, paid opinion leaders, paid opinion leaders are a blot on medicine’s integrity and we should make them a thing of the past, PE1493, PE1651, Peter Swindon, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescribed Drug Dependence, Prescription drug addiction and overdose fears escalate as research reveals one in ten Scots patients being given opiate painkillers, Realistic Medicine, Sackler, Scotland's terrible record on drugs deaths, Scottish Government, Scottish universities urged to cut ties with billionaire Sackler family linked to US drug addiction epidemic, SLWG, Sunday Post, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, taken as prescribed, The Sunday Post, thousands of patients on powerful pills, Too much Medicine

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