I hope everyone over at the Standard has had their shots. They have someone there called RedLogix who apparently has rabies. In the interest of public mental health, I will not be linking to the post entitled “Treachery”. You can go there if you must but I don’t advise it. In one long bizarre spasm [...]

I have been meaning to blog about this article in Stuff on Electroconvulsive Therapy. As with almost every media article I have every seen on the subject, this one is thoroughly biased against ECT. It is as if journalists cannot resist dredging up the checkered and lurid past of ECT and presenting current ECT practice [...]

Talking about the death toll from the February killer quake in Christchurch, Professor Mike Ardagh reckons that there will be a number of others who will have died from the quake who are not yet part of this toll. He is thinking mainly of those who succumbed to complications from their injuries or died as [...]

When Mrs. MacDoctor and I tied the knot some 27 years ago, we did not use the traditional vows of ’til death do us part. Not because we view our marriage as anything less than permanent, but because Mrs. MacDoctor did not particularly like dwelling on negatives like sickness and death. I don’t recall the [...]

I see Key Derangement Syndrome is ravaging the minds of left-wing bloggers. Both Red Alert and Tumeke’s resident troll, Bomber Bradbury, have taken offense at John Key’s observation that he is not likely to continue as an MP if he loses the election. Apparently this is “spitting the dummy” or merely using the Prime Ministership [...]

The MacDoctor wishes all of his readers a Happy New Year and all the best for 2011. In the interests of sanity, the MacDoctor will NOT be making any predictions, awarding any comical/satirical awards or reviewing the past year. Add a Comment

Yesterday’s Herald contained a sad story about a young man who had been seen by the local mental health team, diagnosed him as potentially psychotic and prescribed an anti-psychotic. His counsellor later told him to stop taking the anti-psychotic and continue with counseling. He subsequently committed suicide. A young man committed suicide after his counsellor [...]

Parliament really does follow its own little set of rules, doesn’t it? Where else could one broadcast that your boss can’t do his job and insist that he be fired and then be allowed to take sick leave? I have had patients come to me asking for a week or two of stress leave, but [...]

I wanted to title this post “much ado about nothing” but it’s just too hackneyed. But that is exactly what I think of the Russell Norman Protest Saga. I’ve seen a lot of outrage over Norman’s treatment with, hilariously, a great deal of nationalistic fervour from the left. Even some of my right wing compatriots [...]

Some newspaper articles cause me to wonder what is NOT being said. The Herald today runs the headline: Denied help for sexual abuse, dead days later A review of new rules for sexual abuse counseling has come too late to save a South Auckland mother who died four days after her claim for ACC-funded counselling [...]