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Barry said:
I cannot believe he would let such an opportunity pass him by, when he must be feeling the need to patch the holes in his sinking ship.
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Indeed. I will be gobsmacked if he doesn't make at least some generic comments about stigma and hostility to mental health, how difficult a job it can be for clinicians, a minority of bastard mental-illness denying patients making it difficult for all, etc.

We have heard it all before from him. This event just stinks of an organised propaganda exercise for exactly that purpose.

That said, I will be the first to apologise to and congratulate Fry if he doesn't uncritically swallow the Wessely line. Doesn't have to be much, just an acknowledgement of some kind that not everything currently classified as mental illness is actually so, that psychiatry sometimes makes very serious mistakes (and by sometimes, I mean, frequently).
 
large donner said:
Probably true, it would be nice though if this turned out to be another Mike Godwin own goal. That would just be amazing.
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I may have just given myself an idea accidentally. Why doesn't someone tweet both Godwin and Fry in one tweet with something thought provoking relating to Wessely and the fall out from that exchange with Godwin. Maybe @ it to Peter Tatchell too.

I'm pretty sure Fry will be intrigued by a dispute caused by Godwins law and Wessely. He loves twitter and other intellectuals and he will have probably quoted Godwins law on something like QI before.
 
I don’t want to overwhelm Stephen Fry about Wessely’s misdemeanours, he may end up feeling ‘ambushed’, and after all the theme of the talk is medical storytelling not ME itself, but I think is okay to put seed in his head of harms Wessely has caused. I added to @JaimeS tweet:

 
large donner said:
I may have just given myself an idea accidentally. Why doesn't someone tweet both Godwin and Fry in one tweet with something thought provoking relating to Wessely and the fall out from that exchange with Godwin. Maybe @ it to Peter Tatchell too.

I'm pretty sure Fry will be intrigued by a dispute caused by Godwins law and Wessely. He loves twitter and other intellectuals and he will have probably quoted Godwins law on something like QI before.
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Cinders66 said:
Wesley and Hawkins, wessely and jo brand, wessely and Stephen fry, wessely and prince harry, wessely Regis professor, working for government and military on mental health, ex president of psychiatrists and every title going. He’s built an impressive don’t touch wall hasn’t he for a man with such a track record.
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Why did this post make me think of Jimmy Saville?
 
James Morris-Lent said:
Does Wesseley have any substantive contributions in the mental health field? I don't really know anything about him outside of the whole 'cognitive-behavioral model of CFS'.
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Military health, veterans too. He’s also currently doing a big mental health review for the government. I can’t think of any great achievement, breakthrough in understanding though, but perhaps psychiatrists aren’t expected too. He’s just pushed himself forward and ingratiated himself with lots of people on the way it seems.
 
Just realized that Sir Simon changed his presidency – from being President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists to being President of the Royal Society of Medicine.

(Or was he both presidents simultanously?)

The latter Royal Society perhaps was so overwhelmed by his new(?) President, that it let some typos slip into the last sentence of Sir Simon’s biography. The last sentence states:

“He has a keen interest in education and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2014-2017)”
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instead of
“He has a keen interest in education and in being President of Royal Colleges and Societies”.
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https://www.rsm.ac.uk/about-us/governance/council/professor-sir-simon-wessely-bio.aspx
 
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Modernising the Royal Society of Medicine: We Speak to its President-Elect
September 13, 2019
World-renowned urologist Professor Roger Kirby has recently been named the Royal Society of Medicine president-elect.

He takes up his new post in October and will succeed Professor Sir Simon Wessely as president in July 2020.

Professor Kirby is a prostate surgeon with more than 40 years of experience, both in the NHS and private practice.

He was one of the first urologists in the UK to perform open radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancers and was instrumental in founding two UK charities: Prostate Research Campaign (now Prostate Cancer UK), and The British Urological Foundation, (now The Urology Foundation, or TUF).


In 2012, Professor Kirby was himself diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Medscape UK spoke to Professor Kirby about his new role, the treatment of prostate cancer, and his own experience.
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full article here
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/918344?src=130919_expert_kirby_onc&faf=1
 
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