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Filing the Prison Bars
I grimaced at the patient’s file in front of me; the great wedge of admission forms (eight pages), global assessments, risk assessments, Care Programme Approach assessments, Health of the Nation Outco… more →
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Filing the Prison Bars
wrote 1 month ago: I grimaced at the patient’s file in front of me; the great wedge of admission forms (eight pages), g … more →
Personal Supervision
wrote 1 month ago: I made my way to the upstairs office where the unit manager was dancing for joy in front of his comp … more →
Social Integration
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wrote 2 months ago: “Buzzz” went the doorbell. “I’ve just come to pick up Mrs. Brown with the broken leg” said a drippin … more →
Does anyone know when the kids' TV programmes finish and the adults' programmes start?
wrote 5 months ago: On one channel, I found thirty neurotic people raving in a studio about Viagra and facelifts, while … more →
Community Care Isn't Working
wrote 7 months ago: Work. Yes, ‘work’ had become the forgotten word on our unit, even though most people recognised that … more →
Normalising the Patient
wrote 1 year ago: Technology. Unfortunately, this was one of the many examples of modern culture completely underminin … more →
Good Morning
wrote 1 year ago: On opening the fire door to the landing, we were immediately overpowered by the silage-like stench o … more →
The Six Second Rule
wrote 1 year ago: Sidney joined me in the kitchen and said: “Have you heard of the six second rule yet?” Suspecting mo … more →
Mental health story #6 - 'Speaking Freely'
wrote 1 year ago: Hi folks, You might like to read my latest short story – see mental health stories #6. Do you … more →
Cigs
wrote 1 year ago: Technically, the simple act of giving a patient one of his own cigarettes involved the use of four k … more →
Poison
wrote 1 year ago: The Health Care Assistant sitting at the desk was the original poison dwarf; an individual who had t … more →
Babies
wrote 1 year ago: Hettie 1974 Hettie smiled as she heard the splashing in the bath, and turned back towards her other … more →
The New World
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wrote 1 year ago: The hospital had been a workhouse in the nineteenth century, but now it was very much the reverse. T … more →
Careless in the Community
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wrote 1 year ago: “Caring for psychiatric patients in the community is a fine and noble idea; unless the community its … more →
The Principle of Give and Give.
wrote 1 year ago: ‘Patient rights’ set me apart from my more enlightened colleagues. The massed bands of profess … more →
The System
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wrote 1 year ago: When I first started working at the unit, it was only a degenerate minority who regularly used their … more →
The School Run
wrote 1 year ago: I couldn’t help noticing that Carol’s eyes were like the cross hairs on the sights of a sniper’s rif … more →
Here We Go Again
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wrote 1 year ago: We piled into the car still chewing our bacon gristle, shuddered over the traffic calming humps and … more →
The End?
wrote 1 year ago: Along the bumpy track, heading for the main road, came a little blue car with vintage go-faster stri … more →
