Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s by Charles Miller, published by Icon Books, Feb 2025. About The Book: An Economist Best Book of 2025 So Far “For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, a “gripping story of medical groupthink and warped incentives” (The Economist) that follows how Alzheimer’s disease treatment has been set back by…
Recently, I started to become interested in the work of a psychologist, Dr Roger McFillin, and after listening to multiple Radically Genuine podcasts and interviews and reading his posts on social media, decided to join the Conscious Clinician Collective. This initiative is open to everyone, not only clinicians. That is, anyone with an interest in…
Yes, Shame has an offspring. I believe it is called secrecy. People hide their feelings, their illnesses and their family secrets because they feel ashamed. Owning diseases like mental illness and dementia are difficult, as people feel ashamed to have them, and become secretive about them. Why is it shameful to own up to mental illness…
My dear husband and I constantly discuss our days and the things going on around us, but so often now I have increasing short-term memory loss, so that often it seems like life is full of surprises. He says, but we talked about that last night, or we did that or we went there this…
Well, a new day is here, and an email from one young son that commented on my last blog saying, remember it’s London, most of it is shit cramped living, and, maybe you guys are just spoilt for luxury, hahaha :-). I guess there might just be some truth in both those comments, however today did not start off…
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