Cautiously pessimistic UCL old age psychiatrist | Improving dementia + mental health treatment | Real critical psychiatry | Layla | Clinical academic training
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written a book. I also remember overhearing him confusing the porters over the Maudsley Hospital car park entryphone. “This is Felix Post”. “No mate, the Felix Post Unit (the day hospital named after him) is round the other side of the hospital”.
What a great picture. Felix had retired when I arrived at the Maudsley in 1988, but he came to case presentation meetings and was always a wise and witty presence. He was very helpful to me when I started to become interested in late life psychosis, about which he had (1/2)
Step 1 of the Holm Oak windbreak hedge, planned for the north boundary of our Norfolk garden. I’ll let you know in 10 years how it is going…
There really isn’t any convincing evidence that the glymphatic system has any connection to Alzheimer’s disease. I don’t know about RLS but I’d be sceptical.
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That was the reason why we had FIVE times the death rate of East Asian states, prolonged national lockdowns and care homes devastated. They suppressed their epidemics and stopped the spread within 4-6 weeks using strong public health measures of find, test, trace, isolate and support. bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024…
I met an American couple on the train from Girona to Barcelona yesterday.
Her: “Can you explain why Brits voted for Brexit”?
Me: “I guess it was like Americans voting for Trump”.
Him: “I voted for Trump”.
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Approximately 12,000 Palestinian Arabs volunteered to serve in the British military during WWII, fighting in mixed or separate units alongside Jewish volunteers from Mandate Palestine across Europe, North Africa, Greece, and France.
I can’t thank you enough, Jordi, for your friendship, city guide and simultaneous translation skills.
