Gavin Francis
Scottish GP and writer; author of Adventures in Human Being, Shapeshifters, Intensive Care and Recovery.
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The current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis may be doing more harm than good.
Their wordsBut as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good
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Their wordsWe suggest it is time to acknowledge that the serotonin theory of depression is not empirically substantiated.
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The modern view of the brain as a connectome of circuits and loops will eventually be disproved.
Their wordsto the modern view of the brain as a "connectome" of circuits and loops of varying bandwidth like a computer - which (I predict) will eventually be disproved in its turn.
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- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsBy 2015, the UK had slipped to 21st, and, by 2021, it had fallen to 29th, because of political decisions about the funding of health and social care.
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Their wordsAn international analysis of NHS finance and performance published in the British Medical Journal in 2019 concluded that we are falling way behind comparable countries in terms of the quality of our healthcare, but also that we are paying a lot less towards health than those other countries
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- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsSecond, we're firefighting an explosion in mental health difficulties - anxiety, addictions, insomnia, depression, self-harm, psychosis - triggered not just by the virus, but by the measures we've had to take against it.
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Their wordsThis is the great hope: that even if it proves impossible to eliminate Sars-CoV-2 from the population, and even if the jab doesn't entirely prevent you from becoming infected with new variants of the virus, vaccination will still mitigate its effects, fatal outcomes will be averted, and society can slowly begin to open up again.
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- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsThe health gap between rich and poor, already wide from a decade of cuts to councils and benefits, is being stretched wider.
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Their wordsNow that restrictive lockdown measures are starting to be eased, cases will surely climb.
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Their wordsIf we're to get this equipment to the people who need it in the UK, we need manufacturers here - and production should have started in January.
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