#Therapies

In #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 2019 I finally found the courage to self-refer to the NHS IAPT talking therapies. After 3 family bereavements, the end of a marriage and a lot of work

Something has been really bothering me about when I talk about my counselling and other people change it to say "therapy" and it's been petty and annoying for ages but

I find it odd that I have to spell this out, but here goes. The "exit" in "exit strategy" is not exit from lockdown. It is exit from the coronavirus

This paper is a mess in my view. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820%2931180-6 The propensity model has very low likelihood of capturing the indication bias, and the fidelity of the data (huge registry with

Whitney R. Robinson

1. Pregnant & lactating people are often excluded from clinical trial and vaccine research. But that's starting to change. People in this space are actively updating ethical frameworks so providers

A lot of discussion about healthcare for VIPs at the moment. By 'VIP' I mean anyone unusual who we consider, or are asked to consider, treating 'differently'. Many ICU docs

Michael L. Barnett

New in @JAMA_current "Secret shopper" survey of 368 residential addiction programs for opioid useTL;DR:Fewer than 1/3rd offered maintenance treatment with buprenorphine while over 1 in 5 actively discouraged buprenorphine useMore

Jonathan Shedler

JonathanShedler

1/ More than a few psychologists have asked just what is meant by "evidence-based practice" and "evidence based therapy." This thread is a response I gave to someone who asked

Dave Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

It’s right and proper that Boris Johnson is on ITU even if he doesn’t need, and never needs, ITU therapies. The logistics of managing a VIP on a general ward

Le coin des LGBT+

EN FINIR AVEC LE MYTHE DE L'HÉTÉROPHOBIEEn rouge, les pays qui interdisent les relations hétérosexuelles.#LheterophobieEstUnMythe(Par contre, environ 70 pays interdisent les relations homosexuelles, dont une dizaine qui les punit de

trevor steinbach

I love twitter, but I’m worried about the speed of misguided (but well-intentioned) theories for COVID.Every series describes patients that fit well within the definition of ARDS, and we should

Psychiatrists vs PsychologistsA little thread Psychiatrists are medical doctors, psychologists are not.Psychiatrists prescribe medication, psychologists can't. Psychiatrists diagnose illness, manage treatment and provide a range of th

#CCCF2020 Brian Kavanaugh Controversies - #COVID19: #ARDS or not? What we really addressed - not so much "is it ARDS?" but rather, "does it matter?" So happy to have been

Zero (they/their)

Autistic people: "ABA is literally torture. Here are accounts of the trauma caused. Here's a study saying it doesn't even work. It violates all 4 principles of bioethics. It's conversion

profamirattaran

There are SEVEN vaccines in the final phase of clinical trials.The Trudeau govt bought none of those. Instead it bought the Novavax, which is in the middle phase.This means Canada

Riordan Ledgerwood, MD

It's the Banniversary today. It's been a year since the policy went into place that bans any new diagnosis of gender dysphoria (and as a result any gender affirming medical