Either a medical degree & post grad exams are needed to safely practice medicine, or they’re not. Incredibly, GMC, NHS England, Royal College of Physicians & RCGP have decided they’re not. Non-doctor substitutes, PAs, can treat you instead - on doctor rotas. Did you consent to this? 🤷‍♀️

For years women have spoken up about their experiences of extreme pain during gynaecological procedures. More research is needed if we want to reduce the risk of severe pain and improve understanding among medical professionals, Stephanie O'Donohue bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Tomorrow, 17th September, we are holding the UK's first National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers. Together with NHS Practitioner Health we wanted to have an annual day in the calendar to remember those healthcare workers who have died by suicide. Since 2011, 2,500

Beautiful piece about Barbara Watson - the first person to survive a brain tumour operation. The photograph is from a journal in our archive which belonged to William Macewen, the Glasgow surgeon who performed the operation. But this is Barbara's story ❤️

“Privileged men often spoke as if they were not living in relation with others - as if they were autonomous or self-governing, free to speak or act as they pleased.”

Today is the first National Suicide Memorial Day for our Health and Social Care colleagues, who have died by suicide. Medics are twice as likely to die by suicide than people working in other careers. I’ve lost medical friends to suicide, and remember them today and always.

A “life-affirming” novel about psychiatry in the 1960s? I’m intrigued and looking forward to reading Shy Creatures from the great Clare Chambers

“I was told what things should be like”. This has also been my experience when giving feedback about some abysmal experiences. Deeply invalidating.

According to some estimates, one doctor dies by suicide every 10 days in the UK. On the first National Suicide Memorial Day for Health and Care Workers, Adele Waters speaks to doctors and families touched by suicide #NMDHCW NHS Practitioner Health bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Harm at risk of being normalised in maternity care bbc.in/3MOh0r1

After 22 years we are home to an empty nest. Been reading this gem of a poem all week to prepare. Fly high, dream big, have adventures & pop home from time to time to tell us all about it xxx

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Art has been a core part of my psychiatric assessments of children & teens for years, partly because of my personal experiences of art therapy. I was pleased to talk to The Doctor Magazine about arts-in-health & art therapy. I’m looking forward to discussing this on their podcast 🎨

This is an excellent piece, but I disagree with the statement “it’s hard to imagine many other diagnoses that doctors would keep secret”. I think many doctors keep diagnoses - physical and certainly mental health issues - hidden until they feel they no longer can.

"We should be learning how to become doctors who will thrive in practice, not developing habits that will make us prone to burnout and toxic behaviours." Diana Dogvy on the dangers of extreme study habits and the trend of being an #AcademicWeapon bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Please support if you can. Emily and her family have just experienced the sudden death of their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, three years after the sudden death of their young son, Alexander. Both children lost their lives to a rare condition called PPA2 deficiency. #ChildLoss

Rest in peace Reverend Captain Watson. You touched countless lives. My condolences to everyone who loved you. 💔

My jaw dropped at how prophetic and pertinent to our political moment this is: The visionary pediatrician turned psychiatrist Donald Winnicott (writing in 1958) on the psychology of democracy, the most dangerous kind of person, and the unconscious roots of resisting women leaders