Yesterday I posted about the dire situation facing doctors in Gaza after 5 months of relentless attacks by one of the world's best-equipped military forces. I think I want to point to more reports by doctors and nurses from Gaza.
This is a letter from Dr Mohammed Qandil published in the BMJ's Emergency Medicine Journal in February. Dr Qandil is a consultant and a member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Some striking quotes …
Reports of another deadly attack on Al-Shifa hospital are all over the news, but I just want to highlight what really caught my attention. The current working conditions for the medical staff there. I can't even imagine how medics can work for months while they are under attack. Let alone what is being reported as the situation at the moment:
Speaking to the BBC over the weekend, Dr Mutaz Harara said: “The medical staff here …
I enjoyed parts of Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression by Edward Bullmore. It is very well written and has some good parts on the history of psychiatry.
However, I was disappointed by the way he presented his main thesis that inflammation is the main causative mechanism in major depression. His argument isn't very convincing and he doesn't provide evidence that is solid enough to support this. There is also a major straw …
This is part 3 of a series on data organisation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
Tags are non-hierarchical way of organising your data. The keywords you use to describe your data are on the same level. They became very popular with social bookmarking around 2004. Many systems offer tagging as an option when editing the metadata of your files.
Tags offer flexibility in classifying …
أهلاً بك عزيزي المغامر متصفح الويب المفتوح، عاوز أحييك على شجاعتك لخروجك من الشبكات الاجتماعية الاحتكارية المغلقة وقرارك أنك تدوس على رابط انترنت، بالرغم من التحذيرات من أنك لو دوست على رابط خارجي مارك زاكربرج مش مسؤول عن ال هايحصل لك.
آنست وشرفت موقعي المغمور، ال هو أيضاً مدونة (فاكر المدونات؟)، هنا مافيش اعلانات ومافيش ملفات ارتباط ولا جافاسكربت يبطء جهازك، ممكن تفتح الموقع بأقدم كمبيوتر تلاقيه حواليك وهايفتح أسرع من مواقع شركات رأس مالها …
للأسف لازالت أدوية كثيرة ناقصة من السوق حتى الآن والمشكلة تتفاقم بسبب الأزمة الاقتصادية الحالية.
This is part 2 of a series on data organisation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
Naming files in a consistent and logical way can help you stay organised. You should:
First I would like to introduce you to the ISO date format. This is a …
I enjoyed reading both My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor and Brain on Fire My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. Both books recount their authors' lived experiences with quite severe and acute neurological conditions. Taylor had a haemorrhagic stroke and Cahalan had anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
I picked up Taylor's book while supporting a family member in hospital. I must say I really enjoyed reading her account of what happened on the day …
This is part 1 of a series on data organisation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
In a place where I used to work, there was a colleague who was responsible for writing and handing out medical certificates to patients. These certificates are a one-page document containing basic information and the length of treatment.
She saved …
This is part 4 of a series on digital safety and security for mental health professionals, read part 1, part 2, part 3.
Losing data can be frustrating. I've learnt the hard way that syncing data to another computer or to a cloud provider (e.g. Dropbox) is not a good way of backing up data. Corruption in a single file can spread to synced copies1.
My search for backup software …