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  • Happy Birthday, NHS

    Today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service. There has been a lot of coverage over the last week in every kind of media source to commemorate this. From finding people born on the same day to relive their lives through access to the health system to much polemic and debate...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008

  • Inside Alzheimer’s

    There is an interesting article published by Geriatrics entitled Does Alzheimer’s really exist?. It consists of an interview with two authors of a book called The Myth of Alzheimer’s. I thought it raised some crucial points. Of course, biologically, Alzheimer’s exists and that isn’t...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008

  • Care or Control?

    I spotted this story on the BBC today which reported that anti-psychotic drugs are being used, perhaps too much, perhaps inappropriately, in residential and nursing care homes for residents with dementia. This is an area that is fairly close to my heart as I have worked with many residential and nursing...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-28-2008

  • The curse is better than the cure

    One of the things that was emphasised strongly on the course, is that someone should never be sectioned because they ‘refused to take medication’. That just isn’t a reason. It seemed to be almost natural to comment on that in the assessment papers but, as our tutor pointed out, not...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-22-2008
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