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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by DeeDee Ramona

DeeDee Ramona — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:32:13 +0000

"contracting" in IT is when you hire yourself out for 600 quid a day to banks.

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Comment on “Nurses” for Reform in the Daily Telegraph by DeeDee Ramona

DeeDee Ramona — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:36:54 +0000

Wouldn't go that far Michael - I do know some intelligent, well-read ones who honestly believe it would benefit people. I just think they are wrong. Most of my ire is reserved for the whiny narcissitic subtype.

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Comment on “Nurses” for Reform in the Daily Telegraph by Bristol Michael

Bristol Michael — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:02:08 +0000

Don’t forget the moment in ‘Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone’ when Harry and Ron rescue Hermione from a mountain troll in the bogs, sent by Quirell to destroy the NHS, by Harry sticking his wand up its nose and Ron levitating its club to knock it out.

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Comment on This Week in Mentalists (122) by Bristol Michael

Bristol Michael — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:44:16 +0000

Absolutely, the lactating lily at that. Well no, come to think of it, it’s scarcely Hotel Chocolat or even Thornton’s, it’s more like taking a gold-coloured spray-can to the lily (cold!). But that’s what these buggers do, e.g chocolate rich tea biscuits, chocolate gingernut biscuits, chocolate shortbread (aaarrrgh!). [:) Gold-coloured face without chocolate]

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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by Bristol Michael

Bristol Michael — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:33:27 +0000

Consent certainly but I can’t see contracting working. You can’t legislate for everything in life any more than you can legislate or contract against being knocked down by a bus, only for proper standards of maintenance and driving, and even then the law won’t prevent the driver having a heart attack and driving into the queue.

I certainly believe therapists should be made to state which school of thought they belong to – Lacan is about power – so that informed choices can be made. The UKCP claimed to be able to do this through a complicated system of affiliation to different sections but, being voluntary, the King has been shown to have no clothes (do get dressed, Andrew) and his dog to have no teeth. As with TV where there’s always the off button, in the consulting room there is always the door and, once compulsory registration is under way, the complaints procedure.

BTW did you know that the Lacanians used to think that Wan King was the capital of China…until they discovered Smirnoff?

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Comment on “Nurses” for Reform in the Daily Telegraph by merope

merope — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:49:20 +0000

See, for me the most wonderful thing about the NHS is not to compare it to anything I could or could not afford in America, but that (God willing & fuckwit-politicians avoiding) it will always be there for me, whatever happens.

This. Totally this.

Health care is a social good, like education and infrastructure and a competent military. Everybody has a stake in them, whether they personally use the services or not.

Every time one of my friends starts going about how they want to opt out of paying taxes for the schools (they don’t have kids) or social security (they can afford their own retirement fund) I just tell them “fine. then I’m opting out of paying for roads I don’t use. And the military. And sugar subsidies.”

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Comment on “Nurses” for Reform in the Daily Telegraph by Squawk

Squawk — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:25:07 +0000

I don’t have to choose my job based on medical insurance. I can even choose to volunteer my time rather than get paid, and still get treated. I’ll never have to worry about staying with a partner or falling out with my parents because I need health coverage. If I can never work again, I’m covered. Though there’s a few differences, I can pretty much live anywhere in England, Scotland or Wales and still be covered. Whatever happens, whether I have money or not, whether I’m employed or not, whatever job I take, whatever my family structure is, I will *always* have access to healthcare, and so will everyone I care about who lives here. That’s utterly bloody fantastic, and IMO dwarfs arguments about whether I might currently be able to afford slightly different healthcare based on what my current situation in life happens to be.

As for opting out of taxes – nope. No-one in the UK gets to opt out of taxes for anything, however much you oppose it. If you don’t want your taxes to be spent on the NHS, or nuclear weapons, or abortion, or anything else, you have to get the law changed to stop spending on it altogether, not have some personal opt-out. We’re all in this together.

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Comment on BBC piece on psychotherapy regulation by HowardM

HowardM — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:30:29 +0000

You’re right – just looked up Lacanian psychoanalysis – self indulgent wank. So which bit of the HPC would stop Leader from taking money for that old rope? In fact it’s exactly that kind of nonsense that reinforces the need for regulation with properly defined informed consent and contracting.

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Comment on This Week in Mentalists (122) by Jan

Jan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:05:06 +0000

Sigh...... Am I alone in thinking that adding caramel and chocolate to nipples is, in fact, gilding the lilly?