Can you be useful, doctor?
Twitter has recently been delighted with another must-read paper, this time on five questions that every patient has but never asks. For me, well, let me put it gently, I quite dislike the article. Continue reading “Can you be useful, doctor?”
On ‘discourses of…’
I have just come back from a couple of conferences with a focus on qualitative research. This time, however, I was particularly struck by the frequent use of the phrase ‘discourse of’. In this post, I want to comment on it. As ever, I want to stress that these are only my impressions and they do not pretend to be the truth. Continue reading “On ‘discourses of…’”
Ideology matters
Lancet Psychiatry has just published a polemic and a response which focused on language. I want to comment on them, because the polemic (with which I tend to agree) and the response miss the point somewhat, although in different ways. Continue reading “Ideology matters”
War or the worst medical consultation of my life
When I was in Poland in the summer, I decided to see a doctor. I thought of the visit as getting a second opinion, just to allay my slight worries. It turned out that I had just about the worst medical consultation in my life, well, as far as I remember. This blog is an account of what happened as I remember it. Needless to say, it is told in a way to make it interesting, so I omit fragments of the consultation which were not significant in the context of this post (such as, for example, taking family history). Continue reading “War or the worst medical consultation of my life”