This issue keeps being discussed in conferences and online. I want to put my position here so I can just forward the link because I am really bored by the repetitiveness of it.
Our profession, at its core, is based on caring. A machine will never be able to genuinely do that. If you think it can care, you are being mislead by marketing hype. Other problems with AI include, very large amounts of energy …
Last Wednesday, we had a case presentation at the hospital that was held live on Microsoft Teams with the Maudsley Hospital / IoPPN Grand Rounds. It was hybrid, meaning some psychiatrists participated online (103) and some did in person at our conference room (25) and at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre in London (80).
We were invited by the Academic Lead for the Maudsley Grand Rounds, who was chairing the event, based on the recommendation from one …
While reading The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which I am enjoying very much, I fell into a Wikipedia rabbit hole.
I wanted to read more about our Sun, this led me to reading a bit about nuclear fusion which in turn made me read a bit about deuterium which then sent me indirectly to this paper about the 'D Switch'.
Di Martino, R.M.C., Maxwell, B.D. & Pirali, T. Deuterium in drug …
This post is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
As clinicians we are required to keep up with new knowledge in our fields. However, this isn't always possible as a lot of research is published in journals that don't offer free full text of their articles.
Not all of us work in places that can afford institutional access to scientific journals and sometimes when we do, this access …
This is part 6 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
It may not be a priority for you if you work in mental health care to think about the licence of the software tool you are using. But I really think you should care! It is so important to make sure that you rely …
This is part 5 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
This is a quick comparison between WYSIWYG editors (such as Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer) and using markdown (MD) editors.
| WYSIWYG | MD |
|---|---|
| Modify document layout while thinking about the content of the document. | Save time and focus on content of your document |
| End result looks exactly like … |
This is part 4 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
Markdown is a simple and fast markup language that can be used to format most documents. Using a plain-text editor you can write books, reports, presentations, mindmaps, personal notes, blog posts and so on. Different types of software can convert the text file to the relevant format (for example …
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This is part 3 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
This can sound intimidating at first but it isn't really that hard.
As opposed to WYSIWYG word processors like Word, writing documents using markup languages comes from the concept of separating the content of text from its styling. In a previous post I mentioned why WYSIWYG can be …
This is part 2 of a series on document creation. Which is part of a multi-series of posts on digital resources for mental health professionals.
While using WYSIWYG editors, I often see colleagues right justifying Arabic text instead of using the Right-To-Left (RTL) button to change the text direction. This breaks the order of characters in a line because of the way the software displays right-to-left languages compared to the default left-to-right latin …