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

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Medicine struggles to care effectively for patients with certain types of problems. These include physical symptoms unexplained by disease, depression in the medically ill and complex multimorbidity in the elderly. Does adding bespoke psychiatric interventions help? in this talk I will share some highlights from many years researching this question and discuss what we have learned and what challenges remain.

To join virtually, please use the Zoom link below:
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https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c63f76b7-615c-4a60-9f38-5ab81941952a/

anyone at Oxford who could record this?
 
Medicine struggles to care effectively for patients with certain types of problems. These include physical symptoms unexplained by disease, depression in the medically ill and complex multimorbidity in the elderly. Does adding bespoke psychiatric interventions help?

There has been research since the 1990s. If there is still a question mark the answer must be "no".
 
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.
 
not sure if this has been posted elsewhere
18th Jan 2023

Michael Sharpe receives Adolf Meyer Award for lifetime achievement
The award is given by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for lifetime achievement in psychiatric research

As part of winning the award, Dr Sharpe, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine in the Oxford Department of Psychiatry, will present the Adolf Meyer Award Lecture at the American Psychiatric Association conference in San Francisco in May.

In the lecture, entitled ‘Can psychiatry make medicine better: a tale of three trials’, he will summarise several decades of research he has led into the contribution psychiatry can make to medical care including three major clinical trials.

Dr Sharpe said:



"I am honoured to receive this highly prestigious research award. I hope it will help to raises the profile of research done in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry in the USA. I am also especially pleased that the award is named after a persons whose work was an inspiration to our Department’s founding chair, Michael Gelder."

The award, established in 1957, is named after a Swiss-born American psychiatrist who rose to prominence as the first psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was one of psychiatry’s most influential figures in the first half of the twentieth century. Meyer’s legacy includes his idea of psychobiology, an approach to psychiatry which integrates the psychological and biological study of human beings, and his empirical non-dogmatic approach.

Previous winners of this award include Aaron T Beck, Robin Murray, Michael Rutter, David Goldberg and Daniel Weinberger.
https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/michael-sharpe-receives-adolf-meyer-award-for-lifetime-achievement
 
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
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.
 
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