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Iris Robinson MP

July 23, 2008 – 8:49 am

Here is something we can all get into a self righteous lather over. I am not sure if Iris Robinson is a British MP or a member of the Northern Ireland assembly her husband, Peter Robinson, is the leader of the DUP and First Minister, but Iris is reported by Hansard as saying;
“There can [...]

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Encephalomyelitis and Incapacity Benefit

July 21, 2008 – 5:13 pm

Listening to “You and Yours’” Radio 4’s consumer affairs programme, on the way into work today I was following the debate on the proposed government changes to the benefits system. The government plans to shake up the benefits system by encouraging some of the long term unemployed to do voluntary work in return for [...]

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Does mental illness exist (4)

July 18, 2008 – 4:31 pm

As some of you may have guessed by now I am currently reading a book on “Social construction” or social constructivism or constructionism by Ian Hacking called the “Social Construction of What?”. At the risk of boring certain members of the audience even further (audience what audience?). I want to give a resume [...]

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The Nursing profession dies Laughing

July 17, 2008 – 2:28 pm

Tributes are being paid to nurses after practically the entire profession laughed its self to death following the publication of “Releasing time to care: The Productive Ward” released by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

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Society is dead: Long live society

July 15, 2008 – 8:43 am

An epitaph for the eighties? “There is no such thing as society”
“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it.’I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ [...]

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Homeless woman mistaken for giant rat by ministers visiting hospital

July 13, 2008 – 2:09 pm

A top London hospital has been asked “what the fuck” after it was thought that a new species of giant rat had been discovered by government ministers visiting the hospital. What was thought to be a giant rodent was spotted by Health ministers Ben Bradshaw and Lord Dazi during a recent visit to the hospital’s [...]

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The NHS at 60

July 9, 2008 – 10:39 am

Patients were being urged by the government to go ape shit crazy as the NHS finally went tits up aged sixty this month.

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You don’t know what you don’t know

July 8, 2008 – 8:42 pm

The other day I was asked to assess a patient’s mental state, a patient who also had a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. I knew little about this condition other than it’s main symptom was pain before I saw the patient so I decided to find out a bit more about it. What I discovered intrigued me [...]

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Zugswang

July 7, 2008 – 8:53 pm

Book review

It is St Petersburg, 1914, and. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in the murder of a liberal newspaper editor OV Gulko. A few days later he and his daughter are arrested when a revolutionary dies under similarly mysterious circumstances but Spethman is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who [...]

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A Prime time

July 3, 2008 – 1:44 pm

I was called upon to escort a patient that had presented in A&E to a hospital out of area recently. The patient who I will call Ted was a mathematician and at the start of our journey which was to take about an hour I asked him what branch of mathematics he studied. [...]

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Smoking Bans: The Global picture

July 2, 2008 – 2:10 pm

As the UK prepares to ban smoking in all public places including behind the bike sheds at the Mayfair club in London as well as euphemistically named “smoking rooms” on psychiatric admission wards up and down the country. Backrooms everywhere prepare to be no longer smoke filled and Mental Nurse takes a look at [...]

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Cannabis worse than the Nazis

June 29, 2008 – 10:45 am

Professor Tom Booker, head of drug research at Glasgow’s Clyde University and the man who conducted the latest lengthy study into the drug, said:
“Yeah, whatever.”
A spokesman for the University said:
“The Nazi’s were very bad people but even they could not make a middle class white boy adopt dreadlocks for a hairstyle, or make a highly [...]

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Does mental Illness exists ? (3)

June 27, 2008 – 9:02 am

Take a look at the following two articles both from the USA. The first is about three mentally ill people who were all involved in serious incidents after stopping their medication. David Tarloff a schizophrenic hacked to death a psychologist, Lee Coleman slashed two while on a rampage and Khiel Coppin a “disturbed” [...]

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Health Improvement Co-ordinator wanted

June 26, 2008 – 9:10 am

Tameside and Glossop PCT are looking for a “Health Improvement Co-ordinator” (£29,091 – £38,352) to take the strategic lead in the delivery of health improvement activity in the area. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, organizing, managing, monitoring, evaluating and coordinating health improvement activities across the locality.

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Dr Frankenstein. No DR Who

June 21, 2008 – 8:33 am

Time Lord Dr Who was yesterday being slammed for endangering patients lives, dumbing down the health service and threatening the very fabric of space time by claiming to be a “Doctor”.

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