What do urgency and immediacy mean?
If someone is actively slashing their wrists or about to jump from a building, or about to stab someone to death – those are obviously urgent situations. The risk, the evidence and the dire consequences are easy to spot. There is a difference between matters that need immediate attention and those that need urgent attention. All matters that need immediate attention will be considered urgent. However, not all matters that are urgent need immediate attention. The infographic below aims toRead More …
Untangling a confused mess: motives and psychopathy
Who is a psychopath? The short answer to is NOBODY. How shocking will that appear to the general public who are programmed by social media, BigMedia and popular psychology websites? To learn more, you’d have to study from the facts and my reasoned opinions below. At first I will spend a few minutes demolishing the nonsense spouted by Raj Persaud. Then I will move into the concepts of motives, psychopath and psychopathy. I am not here to diagnose or psychoanalyseRead More …
Dream or reality?
In this article I focus mainly on public sector health care consultations. It is an open ‘secret’ that UK public health services are: short of staff, doctors are overworked, many groups of staff are suffering with burnout, clinic sessions are quite time-limited, follow-up visits are few and far between, patients are often not given sufficient time and support to ask questions. Following a concentrated first consultation for between 45 to 60 minutes, it is difficult for patients to remember allRead More …
The Lucy Letby story
Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six new-borns at Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016. To more efficiently navigate this complex article, do expand the TOC button above and click to the area of your interest. The latest speculation is that some who were in senior management could be prosecuted for Corporate Homicide/Manslaughter. Letby was given a whole life sentence. Read the sentencing remarks by the judge. WhyRead More …