"The bad guy is not always the person with the finger pointed at them".
Powerful words from wrongfully convicted nurse Amanda Jenkinson, with strong echoes of Lucy Letby, in a new talk at UCL for @nineteen_nurses.
https://t.co/fQZFM55tun
OLD SCHOOL has just been named one of the best books of 2026 by the Children’s Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education: https://t.co/4FUw4BlFxp
We are immensely proud to announce that Alison Eddy (CEO NZ College of Midwives) has been elected as the incoming President of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), at the ICM Council meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.
Fed up. Just spent 14 weeks at @nottsinquiry didn’t miss a minute as this was all I could do in my daughter Grace’s name against all those who failed.
Get to my desk and this is what I’m greeted with……
General anesthesia: 15% of patients experienced severe cognitive decline
59% slight decline
26% stable cognition
Patients who developed delirium after surgery had more than 2 x the risk for severe decline in cognition than those who didn’t.
https://t.co/RIjCn4AF9r
The death by suicide of a 21-year-old university student in an overcrowded mental health unit that wasn't fit for purpose was preventable, a coroner has found.
https://t.co/CNHtr66wWb
The comments section here are full of medical professionals who have gone through antidepressant withdrawal themselves, worrying that people that haven't gone through it will never get it. That worries me as well: when clinicians have had their views calcified through years of teaching based on short-term industry studies if it takes personal experience to break out of that, we are cooked, as the kidz say.
Clear thinking down under: good overview of the serotonin narrative of antidepressants, with a focus on Prof Moncrieff's work. "The 36 senior psychiatrists who lined up to attack her in Molecular Psychiatry in 2023 mostly conceded the point in their fine print while insisting the drugs work anyway." Link below.
Hardly surprising.
I posted this video 14 years ago.
It's pretty much how it all started down under.
How GlaxoSmithKline Australia promoted Aropax with starter packs and the offer of FREE counselling sessions...on the proviso that you continued taking Aropax!
Aropax, if you don't know, is the brand name for paroxetine, also known as Seroxat and Paxil.
https://t.co/ZZ1LAmSAX9
Spent the day visiting sites in Longford & Westmeath associated with poet Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) & recorded this excerpt from The Deserted Village at the ruins of the parsonage at Lissoy where Goldsmith was brought up and which provided inspiration for his most famous poem. #Poetry
Our analysis of the FDA approval of escitalopram in children with anxiety is finally published. In the approval trial, children were more likely to become suicidal on escitalopram than to improve, yet the drug was approved. We reveal the pro-drug bias of the regulatory system which is not protecting children's welfare. @markhoro@NaudetFlorian. https://t.co/7diqb3VjKo
bioethics prof Matheson says Canadians should be reassured: "1 bad driver doesn't invalidate driving license system". Remarkable comparison. Note that traffic violations, even without harm, result in penalty. Here problematic deaths results in 'practice improvement' agreement..