This post copies a letter sent to Michelle O'Neill and Jeffrey Donaldson, the leaders of the two largest parties in Northern Ireland. It was sent with the letters to Eluned Morgan in Wales and Johnny Mercer in England featured here and on RxISK last week. The image is of Newgrange on the shortest day of the year - thought to be one of the most magical and hopeful symbols … [Read more...] about Escape from a Prescription Drug Maze
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Morgan vs Morgan: The Future of the NHS?
This post features in a series of posts on the Politics of Care Forum. It sits alongside Can Politicians Save Us, Can Politicians Save the World as well as What's a Life Worth, Once We Were Warriors and Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Doctor. There will be a follow-up post next week. The letter below (without the images) was sent to Eluned Morgan, Minister for Mental Health in … [Read more...] about Morgan vs Morgan: The Future of the NHS?
Can Politicians Save the World?
This is part two of Can Politicians Save US. Both are part of the Politics of Care forum. It would be great if you could print off these two posts and send to your local politician, asking what they figure on doing about some of these points. Nine Point Six in Can Politicians Save Us, mentions an Arms race and compared Drugs and Guns. But there are important differences … [Read more...] about Can Politicians Save the World?
How You Can Save HealthCare and the Global Climate
f This is the first of a series of posts on the Politics of Care forum that will outline what you, what your doctor, what your politician, what the media can do to make a difference to the ongoing destruction of the climate of health and the wider global climate. The to-dos below are to-do. One Tell your doctor you want her/him to treat you and your children (minors) in … [Read more...] about How You Can Save HealthCare and the Global Climate
Politics of Care
Shipwrecked by the Cure, © 2012 Billiam James Shipwreck of the Singular charts our journey over two centuries to Here. How so much that was good in terms of increased life expectancy and quality that came with a development of medicine since 1800 now risks turning to ashes. The parallels with global climate change are striking. How so much that was good in terms of … [Read more...] about Politics of Care
The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
Venus is the black dot in the upper right quadrant of the sun. The plan was to finish the I Can't Breathe series with Magic is from Venus but then the word Nurture popped onto my radar. There is a Venus Rising to come. The word autonomy starts appearing in medicine and in bioethics sometime in the 1950s, give or take a few years, linked to the emergence of Informed … [Read more...] about The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?
Algorithms are from Mars
When God was in Heaven, our images of the Divine split between Justice and Mercy – the Shock and Awe figure of the Last Judgement or someone more like Portia letting us know the quality of mercy is not strained, that it droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath. A person with the love of a Mother for her child. Through to the 1750 or so, the Monarch … [Read more...] about Algorithms are from Mars
To The Last Breath
This photo is of Terence MacSwiney, in 1920 Lord Mayor of Cork in Ireland. The featured photograph on the blog front page is also of MacSwiney in October 1920. The plan was to end this series of posts starting with Being Black and Janet's email to me I can't Breathe with a final post Drawing Breath. The series with its promised completely unrealistic but only possible … [Read more...] about To The Last Breath
Medically Assisted Death in Canada
Policy Options, a Canadian forum, published the piece below by Jocelyn Downie, David Wright and Mona Gupta, all of whom I know, as a contribution to a wider debate on the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) legislation currently under review in Canada, and especially the question of where does mental illness fit into this mix. The Downie and colleagues published piece is … [Read more...] about Medically Assisted Death in Canada
MAiD in Canada: Enduring Sexual Dysfunctions
See accompanying MAiD in Canada and TRD. Illustration: Lost in Medication © created by Billiam James Canada put Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) legislation in place in June 2016. This allowed for medical assistance in dying in cases where death was reasonably foreseeable. In 2019, in Truchon v Attorney General of Canada, the Superior Court of Québec declared the … [Read more...] about MAiD in Canada: Enduring Sexual Dysfunctions