Yesterday, I sent a friend who works in a hospital in Scotland the Egyptian Ministry of Health's guidelines for managing psychiatric inpatients during heatwaves. These guidelines were developed and circulated following the deaths of 10 patients from heat-related complications in 2015.

These are mostly low-cost interventions like:

• keeping patients hydrated
• provide cool areas
• limit sun exposure
• lower antipsychotic doses to the minimum needed and avoid long‑acting forms
• stop the drug if core temperature rises …

This is a list of psychiatry podcasts that I have found useful. This post is part of a series of on digital resources for mental health professionals.

1. Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast by Dr. David J. Puder is in my opinion the best psychiatry podcast online. It has been running for a very long time and has covered excellent topics with great care. He also interviews a wide array of experts. Each episode comes with detailed show …

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.

Free and Open Source software (FOSS)

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.

WYSIWYG vs Markdown

This is a quick comparison between WYSIWYG editors (such as Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer) and using markdown (MD) editors.

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

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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نظم موظفون سابقون بعدد من الهيئات الحكومية، أمس الأربعاء، وقفة احتجاجية بساحة حزب المحافظين، تزامنًا مع احتفالات الحزب بعيد العمال، للتظلم من قرارات إنهاء خدمتهم، بناء على تقارير لجان تحليل المخدرات.

أدى القانون لما هو كان متوقع:

• فصل الكثير من الموظفين من عملهم.
• وصمهم وحرمانهم من العمل بقية حياتهم.

أنتقدت القانون رقم 73 لسنة 2021 من عدة سنوات بسبب عدد من الإشكاليات في وجهة نظري (أهمها):

1. القانون لا يرى الإدمان كمرض أو …