Mental Poisons to Upset Yourself

When being upset is not a mental health problem.

I live in Central London under the Heathrow flightpath. As I write this editorial, my house has just been shaken by the final flight of the last three Concordes. Just over two years ago, on Sept 11th, we experienced the opposite, a strange week of silence, when all overflights were banned for a week. And when they resumed, for a while I looked out of my window as each plane came past, and exper...

How to Avoid Yourself

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Primum Non Nocere — to Yourself

Australia-wide, doctors are returning to work after a break, perhaps even to circumstances similar to those so poignantly captured above: changing schedules to better meet the incessant demands of patients, reams of paperwork, escalating red tape and endless requests to serve on this or that committee. Indeed, their lives are subsumed by service to others before self. “No worries”, many say, “w...

Snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons

Accepted 15 October 2012 Published Online First 13 December 2012 ABSTRACT Objective To describe trends regarding snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) from 2004 to 2010. Methods The NPIS telephone enquiry database, the UK Poisons Information Database, was interrogated for enquiries to the four NPIS units from 2004 to 2010. Search terms used were ‘snake’ and ‘...

The Sensitiveness to Poisons in Avitaminous Animals