Towards a Hermeneutic Shift in Psychiatry by Pat Bracken World Psychiatry. 2014 13[3]:241-243. [full text online] … TOWARDS HERMENEUTICS I contend that good psychiatry involves a primary focus on meanings, values and relationships, both in terms of how we help patients as well as identifying from whence their problems arise. This is not to deny […]
I was kind of surprised how much letting the EMA decisions sit for a day softened my reaction, because my first take was to catalog what was missing from my wish list and privately groan [worry…, beyond the blind…]. I’m hungry too. And so there was more reflection to be done, and what I came […]
In the course of life, I had a hand in the later raising of an orphan, and I knew nothing of an orphan mentality. She hadn’t been abused, but she had been chronically deprived for much of her life. To my surprise, she was never satisfied. She had no concept of "enough" – so she […]
… it keeps turning up like a bad penny The Internet tells me that this phrase comes from 18th century England [when a penny was serious money]. Pennies were frequently counterfeited in those times. So if if one turned up in one’s purse, it was spent quickly. There were so many in circulation that you […]
This is a commentary by a British law firm about tomorrow’s announcement of their data transparency policy: New EMA policy on access to clinical trial data set to be finalised this week The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is set to finalise its new policy on access to clinical trial data this week Out-Law.com 30 Sep […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 1859 It was 2008 and I had been retired for five years. A friend and I had built a house and I’d been involved in a project running down the living artifacts from the time before […]
So, I found something to write about while we wait for the EMA. Consider it, however, a fluff piece because I found something where I could agree with an industry driven point. The post about it by Ed Silverman is on Pharmalot [Does the Open Payments Database ‘Distort’ What Docs Get For Research?]. He’s writing […]