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1 day ago · Jo Brand has backed the #Choose Psychiatry campaign. Picture: Alamy. By Jo Brand. During my time as a mental health nurse, I witnessed the invaluable contribution psychiatrists make to improving and maintaining mental health and I believe that their role is essential to the mental wellbeing of the community.
1 day ago · The most common reason for psychiatric hospitalization is thoughts of suicide and suicide attempts. Within psychiatric inpatient treatment settings, it is usual practice for any personal ...
1 day ago · The main problem is that doctors are willing to prescribe antimicrobials to ill-informed individuals who believe that antimicrobials can cure nearly all illnesses, including viral infections like the common cold.
2 days ago · Thousands of civilians, having been induced by Japanese propaganda to believe that American soldiers were barbarians who committed horrible atrocities, killed their families and themselves to avoid capture at the hands of the Americans. Some of them threw themselves and their family members from the southern cliffs where the Peace Museum now ...
21 hours ago · U.S. National Security Council calls Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, fire in tent camp horrifying 06:44. At least 15 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip ...
2 days ago · These biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. For example, confirmation bias produces systematic errors in scientific research based on inductive reasoning (the gradual accumulation of supportive evidence).
5 days ago · Last year, I participated in my first medical brigade.Our large, stark white bus pulled into the compound, its bright blue sign reading “MedicalBrigade.” As the gates opened and we stepped off, the space—reminiscent of a publicschool—had been transformed into a makeshift medical clinic for the day and the week ahead. Itook my first steps off the bus, and as I looked up, my heart sank ...
