Four patients with Schizophrenia
A variety of different stories and insights the patients have on their condition
This is examinable
So one of our Ethics lectures was entitled ‘How to Look After Yourself’ .. what a joke right? I guess I’m not complaining though, one less lecture to ‘study’ for :D
Anyway thought I’d share with the med students how indeed we should look after ourselves..
•Sleep – adequate and restful, avoid fatigue and long work hours
•Exercise – daily for at least 30 minutes (.. sure I totally do this)
•Diet – regular meals including breakfast, low saturated fat, avoid junk and takeaway foods (does chocolate count as junk?)
•Social contact with partner, family and friends (including non-medical friends)
•Colleague support and opportunity for debriefing
•Having your own GP
•Avoid alcohol and drugs as coping mechanisms
•Meditation practice
•Relaxing and enjoyable activities or hobbies separate from medicine
•No self diagnosis, self treatment or self prescribing (bahhaa..yehno that’s not going to happen)
•Holidays for recreation, study or conference leave, sick leave or “mental health days”
•Spiritual wellbeing
Last day of semester TOMORROWWWWWWWWWWW
Hallelujah!! 19 weeks on and it’s finally here.. I do realise this means exams are closer but it also means holidays are close too ;)
*Replace food with chocolate*
muaha
Azealia Banks - 212 ft. Lazy Jay
This some craazy shit!
Scream - Usher (AHMIR x Jason Cover)
Love these guys!
I Stand Alone - Theophilus London
dafaq??? This has got to be a joke
Pharmacists And Doctors In Kansas Can Now Deny Women Access To Birth Control And Chemotherapy
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill yesterday that will allow pharmacists in the state to refuse to fill a prescription they think could be used to induce abortion. But since the “conscience” measure says they cannot be required to provide a drug or devise that they think “may result in the termination of a pregnancy” — but does not define which drug in particular — the law’s opponents say it could allow a pharmacist to interfere with a woman’s health care by refusing to distribute birth control or emergency contraception.
Women who already have difficulty obtaining contraception may face additional hurdles, according to Julie Burkhart, founder of an abortion-rights group in Wichita, Kansas:
Burkhart said the law could create a hardship for women in small towns with a sole pharmacist who may refuse to fill certain prescriptions. In larger cities, women will have to make sure they go to a cooperative pharmacist, she added.
“Women should not have to go armed with a lot of research when looking for a physician or pharmacist in the community,” Burkhart said.
No pharmacist could be fired for refusing to fill such prescriptions, and doctors can refuse to refer patients to pharmacists who would fill a birth control prescription.
Additionally, the Associated Press had reported that the law could “allow a doctor to refuse to provide chemotherapy to a pregnant cancer patient because it might end her pregnancy.”
Brownback’s office justified his signing by saying the bill “gives more legal protection to Kansas health care providers who refuse to participate in abortions” based on their conscience. Kansas already had a law that allowed medical professionals to refuse to assist in abortion procedures.
While Kansas lawmakers failed to pass a sweeping anti-abortion bill that would have required doctors to give false information to their patients, the expanded “conscience” law is just one of several laws recently approved in the state that undermine women’s health and well being.
Another day. Another roll back on reproductive rights.
Love,
Rabble
Livid.
Dammit, Kansas.
“No pharmacist could be fired for refusing to fill such prescriptions, and doctors can refuse to refer patients to pharmacists who would fill a birth control prescription.” —> Um… doctors don’t “refer” patients to pharmacists. We just give people a prescription and tell them to go fill it. And the DOCTOR is the one who writes the BC prescription, so why would the doctor care if a certain pharmacist “fills birth control prescriptions”.
But that nit-picky point aside — this whole ruling is so STUPID it makes me want to puke (every morning, along with getting breast tenderness).
