Here is a moving exerpt from NHS Blog Doctor’s weekly casebook:
“I had the St John’s Wort/cow dung conversation today. Again. A rather sad woman who is not coping at work. She is not clinically depressed. She has a rotten boss, an indifferent husband and a very difficult teenage daughter. (Are any teenage daughters not difficult?).
But […]
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What can Doctors do when faced with a depressed patient?
December 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: GP · The UK Today · Clinical Depression · Doctors · Regulation · NHS · Depression
PTSD after July 7 bombings, “The Trickster: medicine’s forgotten character”, and the Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust
November 30th, 2006 · No Comments
- The health protection agency has release a report stating that 80% of survivors of the London bombings of July 7th last year have been left with with “emotional upset”. 80% of these were referred to counsellors and specialised post traumatic stress disorder services. Read what Joe Griffin has to say about treatments for post […]
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A breeding ground for crime
November 29th, 2006 · No Comments
The crucial question of “how should street crime be tackled?” has risen again after the sentencing of those responsible for killing the young London lawyer Thomas Rhys Pryce. Donnel Carty (aged 19) and Delano Brown (aged 18) robbed Pryce of his mobile phone before stabbing him in the heart.
It’s very interesting to read on the BBC […]
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The UK needs more than ‘Supernannies’
November 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments
A few weeks ago it emerged that the Youth Justice system in the UK has reached a crisis point - with literally only a few beds available.
In response, the Government is targeting parents with their £4 million “super nannies” scheme - which will install 80 child psychologists in high crime areas to teach parents good […]
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