If you would like a PDF copy, as published, for your personal academic use, please request a copy from me privately on johndotweineratmedotcom or by DM via Twitter This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published in International Review of Psychiatry posted online on 7 Apr 2015 [copyright Taylor & Francis] available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi:10.3109/09540261.2015.1015503 […]
Ageing, Ageism, And Being Comfortable In Your Own Old Skin
November 29, 2013 by
The physical, psychological and social changes over time are the properties of ageing. It’s inevitable, and both young and old need to deal with it. So far, we are unable to prevent it. Even if you follow Woody Allen’s advice that ” you can live to be a hundred if you give up all things […]
Clinical Excellence…Wait, There’s More!
June 4, 2013 by
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK aims to “improve outcomes for people using the NHS and other public health and social care services”. NICE uses evidence-based data in their guidelines. They also study “performance metrics” to publish standards and desirable outcomes. These methods are highly desirable in macromanagement of […]
A Friend Who Would Understand Me
January 2, 2013 by
Anton Chekhov was 38 years old when he wrote “A Case History”. He was already an experienced doctor and evocative writer, and some of his best short stories, including this one, effortlessly combined elements of both medicine and human nature. The dismal grey factory town in “A Case History”, to which a doctor is summoned, […]
DANGER! GERMS! EVERYWHERE!
December 3, 2011 by
Social media is agog with warnings about germs. Nothing new. Movies from Nosferatu (1922) to Contagion (2011) prey on human loathing and disgust of microbes. OK, there are important nasty strains, pandemic flu, resistant Staph, but here we are talking about a surge in paranoia about everyday exposure to germs. Witness the fetish for using […]
The Case For Reductionist Medicine..or..Let’s Not Jumble The Message
November 13, 2011 by
Reductionist Medicine is based on a piecemeal scientific dissection of disease to determine the cause of symptoms and the treatment. Lots of people don’t like this approach. Why? humans are complex organisms complex organisms are not simple if you only look for simple causes then you ignore the whole person if you ignore the whole […]
