Psychiatry, psychology and a bit of philosophy
John Salinsky, Iona Heath, Mary Salinsky in The Green Bookshop, 2018
The book starts with some accounts of what it’s like to listen to strange thoughts and disturbed feelings in the surgery. We consider the relationship between psyche and soma and try to put them back together. We examine the significance of time in the lives of patients and doctors, and we explore the ways in which our mental health services might become more humane and more effective. Poets are called in to give their valuable testimony. The second part looks at ‘difficult patients’ and discusses how GPs can help themselves to contain and to understand all the pain, distress and uncertainty that patients bring. Can we avoid being difficult doctors and still escape brain death by spontaneous combustion? We need to feel loved and valued ourselves, both at home and in the practice, and it’s good to be able to talk about our work with colleagues, individually or in a group. The third part examines what goes on in the practice outside the 10-minute consultation. We can use ideas from family (systems) therapy which will expand our repertoire, and the presence of a counsellor or therapist can help both doctors and patients in many different ways. Indeed, the practice as a whole can be ‘a community of listeners’, helping to make distressed patients feel that they have come to a place where they are accepted and understood.
Lightning — the Mythology Persists
Christopher J. Andrews, Mary Ann Cooper, Mat Darveniza, David Mackerras in Lightning Injuries: Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects Editors, 1992
Another myth could be called the “crispy critter” myth: the idea that when lightning strikes a victim they are burned to a crisp, vaporized, or reduced to a tiny pile of dust. Whenever one lectures on lightning, as the audience warms to the question-and-answer period, someone will invariably ask with a slightly embarrassed expression whether lightning is responsible for the stories told about persons walking down the street who burst into flames without apparent cause. Fortunately, the idea of vaporization and spontaneous combustion is the figment of several science fiction writers’ and sensationalists’ imaginations and has no basis in fact.
The hallmarks of excellence
Roger Neighbour in The Inner Apprentice, 2018
Icarus the heat-seeking, the heat-generating, the heat-sensitive: what is it, this ‘heat’, this energy at the same time attractive and dangerous, intrinsic yet seemingly out of reach? What are those smouldering qualities in Trainees which, well-tended, can waft them safely onwards and upwards but which, injudiciously fanned, can end in spontaneous combustion? It is time to move on from myth and metaphor and for this enquiry to take a more practical turn.
Prediction of spontaneous coal combustion tendency using multinomial logistic regression
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Nilufer Kursunoglu, Maruf Gogebakan
Spontaneous combustion has a complex structure and is caused by a combination of multiple factors. For this purpose, MLR was used in the present study to investigate the spontaneous combustion tendencies of the three coal mines in Zonguldak hardcoal basin. This method is capable of analyzing the interactions between the factors. The results of the MLR analysis indicated that three classes were obtained, and these classes were statistically divided into two clusters as Mine I and Mines II and III. It was observed that CH4, CO variables and CH4 × CO interaction were effective in the formation of clusters. Two fire levels were obtained as ‘normal situation’ and ‘potential combustion’ based on the MLR results. GR and the CO/CO2 index of the mines were also calculated. The combustion tendencies of the mines obtained by MLR were compared with the results of these indexes and the results supported each other. Mine II and Mine III have lower risk according to both methods, while Mine I is risky. Risk-reducing studies such as cement injection, rock dust dispersing and foam spraying behind the face should be intensified in Mine I. Besides, ventilation controls to minimize air leakages between intake and return airways should be performed more frequently.
Survival angst: Reading Hothead Paisan in the Trump era
Published in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2018
Indeed, I experienced a disorienting synchronicity as I turned back to DiMassa's comic and saw Hothead catch a glimpse of a White supremacist couple engaged in a Nazi salute. Hothead wastes no time using her newly cultivated powers of spontaneous combustion to set fire to the couple. “Heil, Hitler!” says one, as he burns to a crisp (118). Just as recent commentators wondered whether the “approval of Nazi-punching is likely to lead to escalation of political violence across the board” (Young), DiMassa was similarly criticized for her embrace of violence, which appeared to make use of the tools of the oppressor. Responding to these critiques in a 1992 issue of the comic titled “Hothead Lives,” DiMassa engages in a meta-reflection that imagines a dialogue between herself as cartoonist and a hypothetical lesbian reader whom she names “Fran.” Fran finds the comic “disgustingly violent,” accuses DiMassa of “undo[ing] the last 20 years of feminism,” and proclaims that Hothead “acts just like the men she's bashing!” (84–85; emphasis in original). DiMassa responds by explaining to Fran that “a lot of women need to vent their rage and this works for them” (85). Indeed, as we all struggled in our own ways to cope with our collectively experienced national trauma, I found in Hothead not only a place to house my feelings of anger and powerlessness, but also, importantly, a validation of my nauseated sense that what I have always suspected is, in fact, undeniably true: women are not human.
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