Introduction A consultant anaesthetist on a busy NHS list repeatedly over months raises concerns about chronic understaffing and the resulting risk to patients. Suddenly she is called to an HR meeting and offered “a package” to leave. Sign the document, she is told, and you will receive a substantial payment in return for waiving your …
agreement, billons, compromise, doctors, employment, gagging, order, rights, risk, settle, settlement, Treasury
The intersection of political cognition and neuroscience has frequently been misread through a deterministic lens: the suggestion that ideology is ‘hardwired’ into neural architecture, thereby predetermining belief or behaviour. The empirical record, however, points in a substantively different direction. Rather than indicating that biology dictates politics, converging evidence from structural and functional neuroimaging suggests that …
activation, belief, cognition, identity, ideology, Meaning, Neuroplasticity, neuropolitics, , structure
How Political Alignment Modulates Neural Activation
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The intersection of political cognition and neuroscience has frequently been misread through a deterministic lens: the suggestion that ideology is ‘hardwired’ into neural architecture, thereby predetermining belief or behaviour. The empirical record, however, points in a substantively different direction. Rather than indicating that biology dictates politics, converging evidence from structural and functional neuroimaging suggests that …
activation, belief, cognition, identity, ideology, Meaning, Neuroplasticity, neuropolitics, , structure
Like Donald Trump: Conditional Generosity in the NHS Labyrinth
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In the continuing chronicle of Britain’s health‑service governance, the latest development arrives with all the subtlety of a departmental memo announcing that oxygen will henceforth be rationed. The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has declared that the thousand additional specialty training posts—previously heralded as a strategic investment in the future workforce—will now be contingent upon resident …
doctors, generosity, nhs, Parliament, pay, streeting, strike, training
How Political Alignment Modulates Neural Activation
The intersection of political cognition and neuroscience has frequently been misread through a deterministic lens: the suggestion that ideology is ‘hardwired’ into neural architecture, thereby predetermining belief or behaviour. The empirical record, however, points in a substantively different direction. Rather than indicating that biology dictates politics, converging evidence from structural and functional neuroimaging suggests that …
Like Donald Trump: Conditional Generosity in the NHS Labyrinth
In the continuing chronicle of Britain’s health‑service governance, the latest development arrives with all the subtlety of a departmental memo announcing that oxygen will henceforth be rationed. The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has declared that the thousand additional specialty training posts—previously heralded as a strategic investment in the future workforce—will now be contingent upon resident …
The Divination of Disorder: ‘Vibe-based’ Diagnosis of EUPD and Institutional Omerta in Modern Psychiatry
In the world of physical medicine, there is a concept known as “ground truth.” If a patient presents with chronic abdominal pain, a surgeon does not simply “divine” the presence of appendicitis based on the patient’s personality or the “vibe” of the consultation. There is a verifiable chain of evidence based on physical examination, blood …
The Mental State Examination: What’s That?
If you have ever been assessed by a psychiatrist, you would probably have undergone a Mental State Examination. You probably did not realise it at the time. There were no needles, no scans, no machines. Instead, there was a conversation, and someone watching and listening with particular care. The Mental State Examination is to psychiatry …