Can psychiatry make medicine better? Michael Sharpe, 29 Nov 2022

https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c63f76b7-615c-4a60-9f38-5ab81941952a/

anyone at Oxford who could record this?

 

Psychiatry has sod all to do with medicine, in the same way as whale songs have sod all to do with accountancy.

So my answer would be 'No'.

 

As what they have learned in all that time = 'nothing', it will only take a few seconds to cover those 'highlights'. Could be the shortest lecture ever??

 

We know the answer to that. It could, but not as long as people like Sharpe are in it, the poster child for everything wrong with medicine.

 

There has been research since the 1990s. If there is still a question mark the answer must be "no".

 

I notice:

"Audience: Members of the University only"

Why?

Wot's he scared of? A few searching questions?

 

The correct answer at this point is not just NO, the consideration of it as medicine at all has completely destroyed the entire medical profession and its bringing down the entire system.

 

I'm sure psychiatry could make medicine better, if you pointed it in the right directions, and researched with high standards. But as someone else quipped, people like Simon Wessely aren't going to take us there.

 

I am sure I could record, or make a transcript or whatever, It's in my diary!

 

I would argue yes, it can. However I would also argue that it wont. Poor scientific methods are deeply entrenched into too much of psychiatry. Some of it has grown up, but some of it is still stuck in 19th century scientific methods.

 

They could pack it in though, that would make it better...

 

"Make medicine great again".

 

anything to report? (don't blame you if you don't).

 

not sure if this has been posted elsewhere
18th Jan 2023

Michael Sharpe receives Adolf Meyer Award for lifetime achievement

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/michael-sharpe-receives-adolf-meyer-award-for-lifetime-achievement

 

This is just terribly disheartening. I hope American charities are informed of this and challenge any problematic claims that might arise out of the lecture.

 

Does anyone have contacts at the American charities? I feel like they could craft a response/organize something meaningful?

 

They can't even name a single actual achievement? Just "he ran 3 trials" is good enough to be awarded? You give them an award. In turn they will vote to give you an award. Perpetual motion within humanity's grasp!

I assume one of those trials is PACE. A debunked fraudulent trial that caused harm. It's actually fitting to reward this in psychiatry. Doing harm is A-OK for many.

He was or has been running another very large trial about "liaison psychiatry". IIRC this project published a single paper that found that it's not useful. Basically seemed to be awarded for sucking up a lot of money. Very similar to handing out ambassadorships to political fundraisers.

Participation trophy. The thing about people who whine about kids being handed participation trophies, and I was in that generation, is that we didn't care about them. They pretty much all ended in the trash. Because participation trophies are hollow. Fitting for a hollow flim-flam man.