Robert Howard
@ProfRobHoward
UCL old age psychiatrist | Improving dementia and mental health treatment | Independent trials | Layla | Clinical academic training
🧵 Clinical Reasoning in Neurology and Psychiatry – Different Systems, Shared Logic 🚨1/15 Coincidentally I teach a course called “How to think like a Consultant Psychiatrist” Let’s step into the world of Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making👇
One of the most challenging yet essential skills to develop in the practice of medicine is the ability to think The book "How to Think Like a Neurologist" by @emeltzermd does a great job introducing some foundational principles of neurology Here's a summary:
Dr. Jen Gunter Sees a Direct Line Between Goop Culture and MAHA vanityfair.com/style/story/dr…
I’m supporting @TheBMA Because trying to fix the NHS without improving pay & conditions for health/social care workers is like trying to refill a bath without the plug Recruitment, retention, burnout - this is the crisis Resident doctors deserve better. So does every patient
Marks and Spencer was founded by Michael Marks (מיכאל מאַרקס) a Yiddish-speaking refugee from Belarus. Few of his original colleagues spoke much English. I imagine they faced a lot of racism, but not, thankfully for them, from employees of @GBNEWS.
Postpartum depression is biological, hormonally mediated, and potentially fatal to both mother and infant. It is not open to the same kind of debate as, say, ADHD or mild situational depression. Non-medically trained people have no part to play in the discussion or management of…
Whoa. Nasty threatening stuff here. I see bad faith only from one side in this dispute.
It appears both Jim Mackey & Wes Streeting are threatening Resident Doctors with ‘detriment’ as a result of a legal strike They need to check the law More importantly negotiate a better pay deal with commitment to pay restoration or if they are unable, ask ACAS @wesstreeting
No doctor today is worth less than they were 17 years ago. Watch @RossNieuwoudt correct some misconceptions around resident doctors pay in England 👇
France will become the 148th country of the UN’s 193 members to recognise Palestine as a state. Labor has no excuse not to implement its policy on recognition unless it continues to put Israel and Trump before decency and leadership. No more excuses do the right thing!
10 years ago, cannabidiol was going to be the new amazing treatment for addictions, schizophrenia, etc. Looking like it was just puff….
Does cannabidiol reduce the adverse effects of cannabis in schizophrenia? A randomised, double-blind, cross-over trial | Neuropsychopharmacology nature.com/articles/s4138…
How to make life feel longer as you get older. But no explanation for my observation that life seems to have sped up since Covid. I’m afflicted with Fast Covid.
The Psychological Secret to Longevity: Your subjective sense of things going slowly, and then speeding up, is real. But you can also control it. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… via @arthurbrooks
A CPR training drill featuring a dog trained to perform chest compressions.
If the NHS continues to be careless with our resident colleagues and doesn’t reward them appropriately, it won’t just be the next 5 days that we’ll lose them for. Australia, Canada, NZ are really benefiting.
Doctors are fleeing the NHS. Every year, 20 000 doctors are leaving the profession prematurely - many because their pay no longer reflects the weight of the job. The real question isn’t whether we can afford to pay doctors. It’s whether we can afford the cost of losing them.
In many societies mental illness “isn’t a thing” not because it doesn’t exist, but because there is: -lack of knowledge about what that change in presentation means -cultural stigma -lack of access to mental health services Indeed, usually in these cultures there is a wider…
Anthropologists have shown that in many societies around the globe what we call ‘post natal depression’ isn’t a thing, as the community relies around the new mother in multiple supportive ways. Medicalisation exonerates our society’s relative lack of community care…
"We stand in unwavering solidarity with our resident doctors" Strong words of support from T&O Consultants at LUHFT Strike hard! ✊
Proud to be part of LOTS !
Unfortunately, patients are often “burdened with the task of figuring out how to tidily package and present their concerns to their clinicians in a manner that they are taken seriously.” psychiatrymargins.com/p/hermeneutic-…
Reddit is so horrifying bc you can go to a sub for people with health problems and see tons of people desperate for help, strategizing on how to be taken seriously, and then you go to a doctor sub and it's full of professionals talking about hysterical women and blue hair.
Once again, the Harley Street Hypocrite caught out by his own greedy grift.
It’s interesting that Dr James Davies denies post-partum depression here on Xitter, yet lists it as a condition he treats at his private Harley Street Clinic.
And that’s fine, I don’t need your convincing But your influence on this platform is larger than mine, and you are spreading misinformation To deny the existence of PPD, chalking it up to lack of support to new moms is just ignorance and potentially dangerous Postpartum…
Ken Calman was the person responsible for the first overhaul of medical training in the early 1990s. Much of what was proposed was good. But 30 years on, the questions raised have not been answered. Nor the fallout fully dealt with. So let's dissect the original report. 🧵 1/
Sir Kenneth Calman was an outstanding Chief Medical Officer for Scotland and then England. He was a great leader and reformer in public health and academia as well as undertaking wider public service. He was also a lovely man, courteous to all. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Excellent to see @rcpsych trolling the FDA and its panel of “experts”.
Up to 85,000 new/expectant mums may have experienced postnatal depression in England last year. They must be supported, and talking therapies & medication can help them recover. The dangers of untreated depression far outweigh the risks of treatment. ⬇️shorturl.at/lQdb7