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The update on Realistic Medicine has been released

mike stone 02/03/17 Dignity Champions forum

The Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, Catherine Calderwood, has just released her follow-on report to 'Realistic Medicine' (which was released last year).

The new report is called Realising Realistic Medicine, and although I only downloaded it yesterday, so I'm still in the process of reading it, it is a very informative piece of work, well worth a look provided people have got the time and inclination.

Relevant links for the report are:

http://news.gov.scot/news/realising-realistic-medicine

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/02/3336

If you go to the second link, and click on 'Contents - Associated downloadable documents' you can download the report as a PDF.

The thrust of Realistic Medicine - more, and more honest, engagement with patients, and the curtailing of unrealistic expectations (well, I've just written that 'off-the-top-of-my-head' - I hope it is a reasonable summary) - has been well-received by doctors very widely.

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Suzie Lloyd 02/03/17

Hi Mike,

This is not in elation to the above thread!! I have emailed you a few times but the message box keeps popping-up as 'Recipient mail box full'. Any advice?

Thanks,

Suzie Lloyd.


Suzie Lloyd 02/03/17

Hi Mike,

This is not in relation to the above thread!! I have emailed you a few times but the message box keeps popping-up as 'Recipient mail box full'. Any advice?

Thanks,

Suzie Lloyd.


mike stone 03/03/17

Hi Suzie,

I had not noticed any recent problems with my normal Yahoo account.

I have a second Yahoo e-mail address, which I use/check much less frequently, and it definitely does not have a full Inbox, so try the address below:

[log in to view email address]

I assume you have not been trying the Stribmail address, which I think I originally used when I registered with DIC - Stribmail closed their e-mail service a year or two ago (I don't know what message you get, if you try that old address now).

If that doesn't work, then if you go to:

http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j367/rr

and follow the link in it (reference 1) then it takes you to a National Mental Capacity Forum page, which has on it a 'click here to join' link. If you join, then one of the tabs is for a 'comments wall' - all of the members have got their own comments walls, and it seems that you can write on your own comments wall, and also on other people's comments walls [which would work, I think, for messages which you do not want to keep private].

Best wishes, Mike