Grigor Dimitrov yesterday after his Davis Cup loss 🗣️ "A part of me left tennis when Federer and Nadal retired. I know Djokovic feels that way too, because I talked to him. We remembered together how it was when we had to face the biggest challenges of that era. I had to face the Best of all time week after week. It was an incredible feeling, something unrepeatable.I don't want to offend anyone from today's tennis but the stage with Big 3 has always been the biggest challenge in tennis for me " .
100,000s of “terminally ill“ UK patients are already prescribed, usually by their GPs, powerful, toxic but highly addictive self-administered opioid PAIN relief medications AT HOME! Oxycodone anyone? Overdosage anyone? Thought not. Talk about it.✅☝️
100,000s of “terminally ill“ UK patients are already prescribed, usually by their GPs, powerful, toxic but highly addictive self-administered opioid PAIN relief medications AT HOME! Oxycodone anyone? Overdosage anyone? Thought not. Talk about it.✅☝️
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Ignoring the psychiatrists - what the assisted dying vote tells us about attitudes to mental illness
https://t.co/mDKNklZu1x
"If the legislation is implemented in the form approved by MPs last week, it could lead to some perplexing situations. As a psychiatrist, I could find myself caring for a depressed, suicidal patient who has been sectioned to a psychiatric hospital with the explicit purpose of preventing them from taking their own life. Yet, if this patient were to have a concurrent terminal illness, they might at the same time be eligible for a government-sanctioned assisted death[i]. The same person could be presenting with the same symptoms, diagnoses and wishes to end their life, and yet at the same time be eligible for suicide prevention (an admission to psychiatric hospital) on the one hand, and suicide facilitation (an assisted death) on the other.
It’s unlikely that such a patient would ever reach my psychiatric hospital, however. Amendments that would have required mandatory psychiatric assessments were proposed but not voted on, such that candidates for assisted dying will only need to undergo the laxer mental capacity assessment. Despite 15% of terminally ill adultsexperiencing a depressive disorder at the end of life, clinicians will not routinely consider the possibility that a mental disorder might be influencing a patients’ wish to undergo an assisted death. As Dr Lade Smith, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, told BBC Newsnight last month, the Mental Capacity Act “is not designed… and hasn’t got the safeguards or the support” to assess eligibility for assisted dying in the way the bill proposes.
One might ask how we’ve ended up here. How did MPs approve the biggest amendment to suicide law in modern history, against the explicit advice of the country’s experts on suicidality – the Royal College of Psychiatrists? And why did MPs design legislation based on its likely effects on middle-class, mentally healthy, able-bodied individuals like themselves, while at the same time ignoring its probable impact on society’s most voiceless populations?
In many ways, this is to be expected. As Professor Allan House, a psychiatrist and academic expert on suicide, wrote, “extreme individualism typically prioritises the wishes of privileged individuals over community or societal needs, and especially over protection of the most vulnerable”."
@KudzuSudzu@angelar59958132@gentlemoominz@dollibvn 100,000s of “terminally ill“ UK patients are already prescribed, usually by their GPs, powerful, toxic but highly addictive self-administered opioid PAIN relief medications AT HOME! Oxycodone anyone? Overdosage anyone? Thought not. Talk about it.✅☝️
@Peterriess2@JohnHann04 100,000s of “terminally ill“ UK patients are already prescribed, usually by their GPs, powerful, toxic but highly addictive self-administered opioid PAIN relief medications AT HOME! Oxycodone anyone? Overdosage anyone? Thought not. Talk about it.✅☝️