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Monthly Archives: May 2021

To what extent has Covid damaged medicine?

the back wings
of the

hospital where
nothing

will grow…

Posted byrodkersh1948May 30, 2021May 30, 2021Posted inEffectiveness, Evolution, Humanism, Manor Field Surgery, Mindfulness, Person Centred CareTags:BBC, Bruce Lee, Covid 19, NHS, William Carlos WilliamsLeave a comment on To what extent has Covid damaged medicine?

Nakata, Aphasia and Sylvia Plath

Imagine being able to converse with a cat.

That’s what Nakata can do.

Posted byrodkersh1948May 22, 2021Posted inDelirium, Dementia, Effectiveness, family, Person Centred CareTags:aphasia, communication, Douglas Adams, Haruki Murakami, John's Campaign, Kafka on the Shore, language, Sheila Hale, speech, Speech and Language Therapy, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The man who lost his language2 Comments on Nakata, Aphasia and Sylvia Plath

Roundabout discovery of a great French composer.

Facts can be convoluted or linear.

They can be jaggedy or zigzag.

They can be true or false.

Posted byrodkersh1948May 16, 2021Posted infamily, HumanismTags:Alexa, Alexander Trocci, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Gnossiennes, Haruki Murakami, Music, SpotifyLeave a comment on Roundabout discovery of a great French composer.

Every time I stand up I fall over.

Older people falling is often a bad thing. The Kersh Condition and diagnostic heuristics.

Posted byrodkersh1948May 15, 2021May 7, 2022Posted inDrugs, Effectiveness, Person Centred Care, polypharmacyTags:Blood Pressure, Brain, collapse, drug induced Parkinsonism, fainting, fracture, heart, heuristics, Medicine, Midodrine, orthostatic intolerance, postural hypotension7 Comments on Every time I stand up I fall over.

What matters.

Anyone who has spent much time in hospital will recognise the phenomenon of the invisible patient.

Posted byrodkersh1948May 8, 2021May 9, 2021Posted inDelirium, Dementia, Effectiveness, Humanism, Mindfulness, Person Centred CareTags:Conversations beyond Covid, Siobhan Reilly, Tony Husband, what matters to me?, what matters to you?Leave a comment on What matters.

Muffled sounds, drum beat and dementia

Norwegian Wood

Yesterday

Michelle

Penny Lane

All resonating, taking me back and creating an atmosphere.

Posted byrodkersh1948May 2, 2021Posted inDelirium, Dementia, Effectiveness, family, Film, Humanism, Person Centred CareTags:Beethoven, Covid Conversations, Delirium, Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal, The BeatlesLeave a comment on Muffled sounds, drum beat and dementia

Phone fraud and Mammeloshen*

I remember experiencing a sensation similar to that which a fly must feel as it slips down the throat of a pitcher plant. Suspicion mixed with curiosity.

Posted byrodkersh1948May 1, 2021Posted infamily, Humanism, JudaismTags:bank, Downing Street, family, fraud, money, Shtisel, YiddishLeave a comment on Phone fraud and Mammeloshen*
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