I’ve been to a meeting this morning with the newly-appointed toxicology consultant at our hospital. He’s setting up what will be only the third toxicology service in the State. Our area is a pretty good place for one, seeing as apparently we make more calls to the national poisons information centre than anywhere else...
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I’m of a mind to be a little controversial today. We’re all keen to stop people killing themselves – especially young people. We’re told therefore that we need to enhance mental health services for the youth, and hence the “Headspace” initiative in Australia, which gets bags of money and flash premises and great press…
And...
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This Monday 21st June 2010 a change was made to the review process for persons detained under the Mental Health Act in NSW, Australia. There have been concerns raised that this reduces the rights of detained persons, and will lead to longer periods of detention. Certainly my first response was along those lines. The...
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I had an excellent discussion with a colleague this morning, wherein we both lamented the sad state of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnostic practice. One of the things I mentioned (and thought I’d throw on here today, in the spirit of Friday Filosophy being whatever sort of finking I want it to be) was about...
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This morning I read an article linked by Steve Silberman about adult ADHD. The article was about a study from Sweden of stimulant treatment of adults with diagnosed ADHD. This article said, basically, it’s a good thing to do, as it helps the patients function better, with relatively few and minor unwanted effects.
Sounds great,...
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