Humanism

Thursday morning. Not another blog about advance care planning!

If this narrative has held together, my point is, we can offer just as good, if not better care, treatment and support for particularly older people in their own homes than is available through high-tech medical interventions.

family

Waterstones – family trip to Sheffield, book buying and a form of review

After that last election, the one which brought the clown and his Merry Pranksters to power I deleted news and Social Media apps from my phone; it was only with the arrival of Covid that I allowed them back in.

Evolution

BAME, BME and me

The colour of our skin is various, the shape of our face, head and hair, yet, our eyes, seem a constant. He has brown eyes doesn’t mean a thing.

Humanism

Hospital acquired infection, Covid, Coroners and the solstice

Ignaz might not be happy, but Donne would be chuffed.

Effectiveness

Covid – my brain, my brain! What is happening to my brain?

Serial processing; switching backwards and forwards from concentrating on Word to Outlook to Chrome uses mental energy;

Drugs

Placebo – Serotonin, what it is to be a doctor, foray into shamanism and farewell Maisie

I have always accepted this concept; it has taught me humility.

Humanism

Francis Bacon’s interpretation of our health service as it struggles to catch its breath.

A drooling, dribbling, stuttering, stumbling, drug-addled bully, we express our love through brutality.

Delirium

Charles-Bonnet Syndrome and other thoughts about physical and mental illness

Out optic blind-spots continuously adapt to provide us with a seamless sense of reality, only becoming real when we reverse into a wall that we didn’t see.

Evolution

The last big weekend of the Lockdown*

The weather has changed; yesterday we were basking in too-hot sun, today, the wind and clouds have gathered.

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almondemotion

My thoughts on creativity, imagination, health and social care and their relationship with human emotion

Humanism

Thursday morning. Not another blog about advance care planning!

Waterstones – family trip to Sheffield, book buying and a form of review

BAME, BME and me

Hospital acquired infection, Covid, Coroners and the solstice

Covid – my brain, my brain! What is happening to my brain?

Placebo – Serotonin, what it is to be a doctor, foray into shamanism and farewell Maisie

Francis Bacon’s interpretation of our health service as it struggles to catch its breath.

The last big weekend of the Lockdown*