Category: What should be done differently?
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Refocusing priorities. Treat. Prevent. Risk. To treat – Pt 1
The first and foremost duty of mhs is to treat the ill patient so he gets better. (*a) What does ‘better’ mean, though? Good question. Because doctors, nurses and psychotherapists should be able to justify the treatment they’re offering (or forcing on) the patient. They should know what it is intended to achieve, what the…
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Social chaos
In the same way as community and response police have been forced to pick up the work/people/patients/chaos/offences that were once our remit, so has..
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The state of play you are paying for Part 1c
NB Did you know that when psych patients are admitted, there’s a policy (yes, yet another one) obliging staff – this means nurses – to screen them for all the physical illnesses and conditions that the psychiatric population (well, a subsection of it if we’re being honest) suffers disproportionally. And to be treated for anything…
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The state of play you are paying for Part 1b
3. A patient from an extended family of mental patients, you might call them a clan, (if you made sure you remained anonymous) comprising far too many siblings, cousins and assorted relatives, who’d been rejected, neglected, abused and farked up by their useless, feckless parents and aunties and uncles – who themselves had been rejected, neglected,…