The Folly of Risk Assessment There. I said it. The one thing we are asked more than anything else - and the request that bugs me more than just about any other - is to "do a risk assessment". In fact NSW Health has enshrined the notion of "a risk assessment" in policy and mandatory...
I think it might be good to introduce a bit of regularity: some blogary fibre, if you like I kind of started a little bit along that route on Monday with the first of my MusicMonday posts, but on the day didn’t think of anything else regular. Today I decided that a couple...
Got a few things in the works, for posting soon: 1. A summary of a new paper reporting the current state of play with antidepressants in pregnancy – always a difficult area. 2. A revamped version of a letter a colleague and I wrote, critical of a recent article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal...
Yesterday I received 3 invitations to a “dialogue with” a mindfulness meditation teacher who is “internationally known for his work in “integrative medicine”. These were sent out under the letterhead of our health service (which makes me despair somewhat), for me to distribute to interested colleagues. “Integrative medicine”? you ask. “integrative medicine indeed. You might...
