Whilst it is clearly a good idea to identify unwarranted variation in practice, it is also important to acknowledge that variation can bewarranted. The very act of measuring and describing variation carries great rhetorical power, since revealing geographical variation in any chosen metric effectively ...
Usually the first step towards treatment is to talk about our worries, concerns, and illnesses. People should seek help, of which there are many sources out there, including the NHS, Samaritans, Citizens Advice, and probably, your friends. I have been amazed how many apparently normal, happy ...
self-conscious and submissive. A lot of people have responded by telling her she is being paranoid and she finds this extremely offensive and doesn't like the word to be associated with her. She says that she has always been that way, even at primary school, but now as she has begun ...
BEING AN NHS CHIEF EXECUTIVE… No blogs from me for a while because I’ve been finishing my book Being an NHS Chief Executive. In these early weeks after publication, it is nice to talk to a few reviewers about the book. Here are some of the questions I’ve been answering. Why did ...
ukpsychiatrist London, United... 47 posts 61 helpful votes 7. Re: What are the rules when flying FROM Pakistan to overseas? 3 years ago Save There is something on the Pakistan civil aviation authority website - it makes no mention of any need for testing for ou...
It's a lot more than being overly scared when alone. I get that too, mostly because of my paranoid mom who raised me with terrible stories of what could happen to me if I'm not careful. but she is on a whole other level than me. It's ridiculous. She is so paranoid that she ...
Things go back to normal and I am able to calm him down more quickly in the two years that we have been together so I know we can stick it out. I know that he does love me and his children, but the bipolar is blocking his true emotions a lot of the time. It is just nice to...
used after a sudden death to ascertain which drug was responsible. The result, we discovered, is that no one — pathologists, coroners, the NHS, the Department of Health, drugs charities, or LGBT organisations — knows the total, or even a near-approximate number, of overdoses and deaths....
A few days after Gavins saw the GP, one of the teachers asked him if he’d received a letter from the psychiatrist. He had only just received it, alerting him for the first time to the sense that the teachers were in contact with the psychiatrist. ...
A highly respected psychiatrist diagnosed me with bipolar II disorder and said he could treat it, but insisted that I first work with a local hospital program to dispose of a gun I had bought several months earlier when I was in a more suicidal state of mind, and complete a few weeks of...