As someone said, whose name escapes me, ‘the purpose of a system is what it produces, not what it says it aims to produce.’ In light of this insight, as wells as on the basis of logic, we should not assume that the health system aims to heal, because it could just as well be intended to do harm. I don’t know either way, but a system is what it does, and incompetence is the best cover for corruption.
Maybe în medical professionals could only be paid if patients recover it will be different. Yet the problem start in the brainwashing to medical/psychiatrist students ensure research and knowledge as Dr McLaren does not reach them
Read enough- in the spirit of Thomas Pain - to argue with this psoft-cock psychiatry Pscience that has denounced, renounced or diagnosed reason as unnecessary in their “special” specialty is like administering medicine to the dead.
They are choking GPs of money they desperately need, they can barely write correspondence back to the referring GPS about patients medication regime as they constantly change it and it probably does not attract a reimbursement Medicare number. starting at (disAbilify to Zoloft , they lurch from one pharmaceutical prescription disaster to another When their patients present at the GPs surgery or emergency with often potentially life threatening side effects, they can’t be found. They don’t play well with their colleagues from other science base medical science disciplines.
Go wash your hands psychiatry, your contaminating the field. You’re the problem- your malodorous - get your but off Freuds couch and do some work- you don’t stink pretty
Thank you, Dr Mclaren for your ongoing heroic efforts to dismantle the Wicked Problem of biological psychiatry.
As a medical student and now doctor traumatised by the profound inhumanity rife within Australia's "mental health system'' [read lucrative, highly corrupt industry] I find the level of mental illness propagated by the very system funded to 'treat, prevent, and reduce burden of mental illness' sickening, and can recall countless examples of this system existing only as an anachronism to medieval torture.
Multitudes of cases of gross medical negligence, devastating disregard for human life, complete apathy for patients and the destruction of family units, by way of what appears to be all too easily obtained state guardianship orders on the sole basis of a 30minute psychiatric report that very conveniently controls familial access to patients and works to freeze out witnesses to injustice, occurring daily.
Your courageous work threatens the very pay structure of individuals who subscribe to the biological pedagogy who take very easy sums of money for very little meaningful work and even less patient [read inmate] interaction.
I recall a 21y.o Aboriginal girl, weight approx. 41kg, anaemic on eye-watering doses of Clozapine who when I read through her notes had not even had an MRI brain or her anaemia addressed.... yet, a Public Guardian had been appointed as her family was cited to be "distrustful of western medicine"[read involuntary psychiatric treatment] within the medical notes.
I recall attendances at Met calls where the psych doctors barely gave a handover and a group of mental health nursing staff staring around baulking at the medical emergency team without helping patients or the MET team. I recall basic equipment such as an ECG machine not being available on a locked ward despite the volume of cardio-toxic drugs being administered throughout the day to hordes of patients [treated like animals].
The case of a young male, 18y.o who went on a hunger strike so terrified to receive ECT against his will for depression will forever remain etched into my mind. The knowledge his life was created via way of IVF, an only child to a single Mum, the image of this young man waiting and crying at the door for his mum, just wanting to go home with her and her baffled she couldn't take him with her that he'd be given ECT against their will and her scrambling without the money to find a lawyer, frankly haunting.
Another example was the knee jerk of staff to needle an Aboriginal patient, when talking to him about missing Country calmed him, treating him as a fellow human de-escalated him and he sat on the floor and fell asleep during a code black- much to the complete irritation of psych nurses and psych reg who had already drawn up IM meds for a man who was already swaying and drooling and clearly required benztropine....or less drugs....more real life solutions and social work.
The degree of incompetence, lack of critical thinking and down-right righteousness and stubbornness in spite of the biological MH industry's incompetence is enough to make one's stomach churn. Thank you for fighting the good fight. Your lifelong work continues to inspire change. You are an Australian Human Rights hero. Thank you.
Yes to work along side this batch of unethical thugs and witness how they capriciously dole out treatment to the sick and vulnerable is I know, truly disgusting. The trauma can be indelible. They drive away good people from the industry. Inebriated with their own ignorance and power: sans science, sans humanity. They have ensconced themselves in the health system and they know they have the government of the day over a barrel. To unceremoniously kick this vile group into the gutter where they belong is virtually impossible. They lurch from disaster to disaster as they are a law unto themselves.
Another excellently written article and very much on message
Thank you once more Dr McLaren 🌹👍🏻🤗💌👏🏻🏆why humans like you are not teaching in Medical schools
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As someone said, whose name escapes me, ‘the purpose of a system is what it produces, not what it says it aims to produce.’ In light of this insight, as wells as on the basis of logic, we should not assume that the health system aims to heal, because it could just as well be intended to do harm. I don’t know either way, but a system is what it does, and incompetence is the best cover for corruption.
Maybe în medical professionals could only be paid if patients recover it will be different. Yet the problem start in the brainwashing to medical/psychiatrist students ensure research and knowledge as Dr McLaren does not reach them
Read enough- in the spirit of Thomas Pain - to argue with this psoft-cock psychiatry Pscience that has denounced, renounced or diagnosed reason as unnecessary in their “special” specialty is like administering medicine to the dead.
They are choking GPs of money they desperately need, they can barely write correspondence back to the referring GPS about patients medication regime as they constantly change it and it probably does not attract a reimbursement Medicare number. starting at (disAbilify to Zoloft , they lurch from one pharmaceutical prescription disaster to another When their patients present at the GPs surgery or emergency with often potentially life threatening side effects, they can’t be found. They don’t play well with their colleagues from other science base medical science disciplines.
Go wash your hands psychiatry, your contaminating the field. You’re the problem- your malodorous - get your but off Freuds couch and do some work- you don’t stink pretty
Thank you, Dr Mclaren for your ongoing heroic efforts to dismantle the Wicked Problem of biological psychiatry.
As a medical student and now doctor traumatised by the profound inhumanity rife within Australia's "mental health system'' [read lucrative, highly corrupt industry] I find the level of mental illness propagated by the very system funded to 'treat, prevent, and reduce burden of mental illness' sickening, and can recall countless examples of this system existing only as an anachronism to medieval torture.
Multitudes of cases of gross medical negligence, devastating disregard for human life, complete apathy for patients and the destruction of family units, by way of what appears to be all too easily obtained state guardianship orders on the sole basis of a 30minute psychiatric report that very conveniently controls familial access to patients and works to freeze out witnesses to injustice, occurring daily.
Your courageous work threatens the very pay structure of individuals who subscribe to the biological pedagogy who take very easy sums of money for very little meaningful work and even less patient [read inmate] interaction.
I recall a 21y.o Aboriginal girl, weight approx. 41kg, anaemic on eye-watering doses of Clozapine who when I read through her notes had not even had an MRI brain or her anaemia addressed.... yet, a Public Guardian had been appointed as her family was cited to be "distrustful of western medicine"[read involuntary psychiatric treatment] within the medical notes.
I recall attendances at Met calls where the psych doctors barely gave a handover and a group of mental health nursing staff staring around baulking at the medical emergency team without helping patients or the MET team. I recall basic equipment such as an ECG machine not being available on a locked ward despite the volume of cardio-toxic drugs being administered throughout the day to hordes of patients [treated like animals].
The case of a young male, 18y.o who went on a hunger strike so terrified to receive ECT against his will for depression will forever remain etched into my mind. The knowledge his life was created via way of IVF, an only child to a single Mum, the image of this young man waiting and crying at the door for his mum, just wanting to go home with her and her baffled she couldn't take him with her that he'd be given ECT against their will and her scrambling without the money to find a lawyer, frankly haunting.
Another example was the knee jerk of staff to needle an Aboriginal patient, when talking to him about missing Country calmed him, treating him as a fellow human de-escalated him and he sat on the floor and fell asleep during a code black- much to the complete irritation of psych nurses and psych reg who had already drawn up IM meds for a man who was already swaying and drooling and clearly required benztropine....or less drugs....more real life solutions and social work.
The degree of incompetence, lack of critical thinking and down-right righteousness and stubbornness in spite of the biological MH industry's incompetence is enough to make one's stomach churn. Thank you for fighting the good fight. Your lifelong work continues to inspire change. You are an Australian Human Rights hero. Thank you.
The answer, of course, is "Talk to them." Treat them as human and it's amazing what emerges.
When people are classed as mentally incompetent, they will be treated as such. The Milgram experiment showed this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) and also the Stanford prison experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment) but these didn't need to be done. We had all the evidence we needed from human history.
Yes to work along side this batch of unethical thugs and witness how they capriciously dole out treatment to the sick and vulnerable is I know, truly disgusting. The trauma can be indelible. They drive away good people from the industry. Inebriated with their own ignorance and power: sans science, sans humanity. They have ensconced themselves in the health system and they know they have the government of the day over a barrel. To unceremoniously kick this vile group into the gutter where they belong is virtually impossible. They lurch from disaster to disaster as they are a law unto themselves.
Thank you Dr MCLaren 😄