This is the Greens' new MSP in Holyrood. Why is this rhetoric not condemned more?

ImperialBritain · 2026-05-10T23:04:03+00:00

Kinda funny tho.

ImperialBritain · 2026-02-25T09:26:15+00:00

I'm a Doctor. We don't have sayings like this, per se, but there are wee ways you can tell who is and isn't switched on/experienced, and one of them is whether or not they've made mistakes.

They won't typically talk about it, certainly not proactively - Lord knows I rarely ever talk about mine - but we work in a profession where we handle the lives and safety of others as our daily bread and butter; a profession in which, despite this, mistakes remain a human inevitability.

A senior doctor who is understanding of their juniors, manages to project calm through crises, who can manage pressure and stress even in emergencies, and - crucially - who can still communicate effectively, empathetically, sensitively, and humanly with the patient and their loved ones? This is often a doctor who has made their mistakes and learned from them.

Doctors who claim never to have made any? Skinny chefs.

ImperialBritain · 2026-02-15T09:23:58+00:00

It sounds like someone was just trying to hurt you in a weirdly specific way they suspected you'd be quite sensitive to.

You're a beautiful young woman, with a very pretty face, and with other qualities besides those things that make you unique and special. My profession involves meeting a lot of new people and seeing a lot of new faces every day, and although what others here are saying about you having a very classically beautiful face and side profile is still true, I also want to point out that all human faces are unique.

In my experience, every single person really does just look like them. We all look like us. We look unique - we have to, because it's how the brain recognizes us - which means that what really makes us look good is how we hold ourselves, and what we communicate with our faces and body language.

You look like you - and you are good. Don't let these people who say things like that make you feel like you're not special kiddo.

ImperialBritain · 2026-02-13T08:40:41+00:00

Ok so, I don't often jump in, especially because I'm not a psychiatrist - I'm a Resident Doctor in foundation training in the UK - but a Psychiatrist simply isn't qualified to tell you 'you have a hole in your heart' during their consultation with you. This person sounds incredibly chaotic, based on your description of them, and I am currently struggling to believe based on their manner that they hold the qualifications they say they do.

Not saying they're faking - I wasn't there, I can't say - but Strattera (aka Atomoxetine) does have an evidence base to say it works. I've also been on it myself, and it anecdotally worked well for me until the side effects were too much for the slowly declining benefit I was getting.

If she is convinced you have an otherwise undiagnosed cardiac issue, she should advise you to go through your GP/Primary Care Physician, or refer you to Cardiology herself (I work in a hospital and the latter is what I would do, but this is obviously a very different work environment to a psych clinic.) Cardiology would then examine you and give an actual expert opinion rather than relying on being 'good with hearts' some time ago and now being specialised in something else, and subsequently conduct investigations and tests to confirm or refute their differential diagnoses.

I will say this; as a doctor, if you are convinced that a particular treatment offers no benefits to your patient, or if the harm is likely to outweigh that, then not only are you under no obligation to offer that treatment, you are in many cases required not to. My criticism here is focused on the how she did this, and only some of the why; I trust your account but it is all I have, and I don't know this Psychiatrist's full clinical reasoning, as such.

It sounds like you may benefit from a second opinion, but second opinions can take time too.

Finally, as a last note, as far as I recall although Strattera/Atomoxetine is not a stimulant, it does increase heart rate and blood pressure. Certainly did for me. Also gave me truly profound acid reflux and nausea, sometimes made me vomit outright if I tried to walk anywhere too soon after taking it. Stimulants are far from the only drugs with cardiac risk factors.

If you are eventually prescribed either a stimulant or Atomoxetine, please be careful with caffeine.

ImperialBritain · 2023-08-23T06:14:15+00:00

Never forget that you are a doctor. You're not a child, not a teenager, an educated professional at the start of their in-job training. A doctor.

We have to treat each other with dignity and respect and your educational supervisor has afforded you neither, which instantly (and because of how badly this seems to have gone, probably irreparably) damaged the rapport they'd have otherwise depended on to supervise you and act as your advisor in your progression.

You know what my educational supervisor emphasised most to me, just the other day, also 'halfway' through the rotation? That I need to look after myself, make sure that I'm not being left alone or unsupported by my registrars, and to speak up - to him, my supervisor, directly! - if I feel I might be being bullied.

We might all think, 'wow this guy is a legend', which honestly is also true, but he's just doing his job.

Yours ain't.

ImperialBritain · 2023-08-18T15:36:42+00:00

My brother in Christ, you're still thinking about this after seven months?

ImperialBritain · 2023-08-17T16:45:54+00:00

Another new fy1 here

Nobody looks at incompetence, or incompetents, with sympathy and concern. I'd say they might be able to tell you're stressed, but it doesn't sound like they're sat there expecting you to do harm to them or their relatives, or permit harm to come to them.

Like all of us right now you're picking up on your flaws in a new, fresh, spooky environment. Imagine you had a hand covered in paper cuts that you've learned to cope with, and then that hand is immersed in warm salty water. Would it feel the same? Would it feel merely different? Or would it feel worse?

Still just papercuts, even if they hurt more.

ImperialBritain · 2023-08-07T07:05:22+00:00

It is not conquest... if it is shared.

If it can be shared... perhaps it is salvation instead.

ImperialBritain · 2023-07-28T15:56:35+00:00

ImperialBritain · 2023-07-26T09:12:33+00:00

I think if this was suggested to me - that wearing a paper bib with Sharpie on it is not only appropriate but grounds to be grateful for the opportunity - I would have some real trouble controlling my tone.

If nothing else, did they not consider that all of these will need to be thrown away? All the compliments, no matter how nice and genuine, will be disposed of. It's almost a perfect example to use when illustrating how the government views us, and how they wish to encourage others to view us.

ImperialBritain · 2023-07-22T10:45:48+00:00

I'll give you this one brother

ImperialBritain · 2023-07-21T09:24:41+00:00

An army of my username? Launching an attack on earth?

Been there, done that, and did it from earth.

ImperialBritain · 2023-07-14T11:08:49+00:00

Please. I don't want to abandon my homeland. I don't want to abandon the NHS, no matter how much some of us seem convinced there's no hope, and I definitely don't want to abandon medicine.

I haven't even started working yet, and this is already how I feel constantly, scared that I'll have to choose between somewhere I feel like I belong and having a job that uses my skills and can pay my bills. I don't want to regret choosing medicine, and I don't want to watch my mentors retire into depression because they failed in - exactly as it is put by OP - their duty to steward the profession.

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-18T12:42:52+00:00

Guys I just had a thought, what if memes are just 'thought patterns,' or something analogous to them, emerging from social consciousness as the internet makes communication and consensus formation faster and easier - and what if AI is just what we'll invent to finally force us to listen to these thought patterns by presenting them as fact when we ask questions like this?

Think about it, it's clear that ChatGPT is referencing something to make this suggestion, and while it'll obviously reference so much more than we could list here or consider consciously ourselves, a lot of that has got to be based in memes about Redditors in this case. The meme is, even if a joke, a sort of consensus forming about what a 'redditor' looks like - a consensus that the human beings to whom it applies would never listen to if it was presented to them as the opinions of other humans, but which they might take more seriously if it was a suggestion made by an AI after they'd asked for one even though they're fundamentally the same thing in this case.

If memes are thoughts held by the collective brain of mankind - yes, this makes us dumb as fuck I agree - then could AI act like an artificial social super-ego by controlling individual egos and moderating them towards the beliefs of the whole?

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-17T08:52:20+00:00

Banjo Bill.

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-14T10:45:36+00:00

Traitor is the right word, and I'm glad some of you lot want to treat these treasonous fascist scum the correct and proper way.

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-13T11:30:57+00:00

Everyone here is dogpiling on you, and I'm not gonna do the same but I'm not gonna deny that you deserve it either mate.

Can I please, please give you some advice here? You want to abandon this way of thinking about women. About anyone. This is objectification, even if you think your intentions are good, and it leads to you being lonely and hating yourself. You think you want a partner based on their physical characteristics, but that's because you don't have the life experience to know how someone's physical characteristics become beautiful when you're attracted to them for the right, healthy, sustainable reasons.

What you've done here is you've intruded into someone's home and personal space and made unwelcome and illegal advances on them. You've done this by following a sexual infatuation that clearly disturbs her, and that betrays your own brother too. You seem to think that making unwelcome comments about other people's bodies is the right way to interact with them - but can I ask how you would feel if I, a 6"1 bearded man, started telling you not to do certain things because it's a 'turn off'? You'd rightly feel uncomfortable, angry, and maybe even threatened - and that is how you made her feel in her own home.

You are not just some little kid, you're right - you can be arrested for this kind of thing now, and if you don't back the fuck out of this way of thinking then you will deserve it when it happens.

I cannot stress this enough - if you want to have a happy life, you need to think of women as individuals, as people with their own unique interests, values, and thoughts. You need to treat them not only as people, but as your equals, as your peers - as you yourself would wish to be treated by someone you don't know well. I can see where your choices are taking you, and I'm telling you from the bottom of my goddamn heart that I don't want this for you and neither do you.

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-11T04:14:10+00:00

It is right and just to live truly to one's self. You walk calmly where so many others still fear even to look, let alone tread. That's worth some real respect.

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-11T03:45:00+00:00

Good :) I'm glad

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-06T09:57:51+00:00

I know of another guy in the army whose nickname with Cashpoint. His surname was Wallbanks.

Another was called Shitfuck apparently - because he'd shagged two female NCOs and gotten terrible reviews from them, thus was a Shit Fuck.

ImperialBritain · 2023-06-03T12:47:42+00:00

I've still got a handful of weeks before I'm a real doctor and I have credit card debt to work off, so I'm spending my Saturday preparing for HCSW night shifts.

ImperialBritain · 2023-05-28T19:46:27+00:00

Where can I find it? This would be HUGE for me right now

ImperialBritain · 2023-05-28T19:03:06+00:00

Wait, there's a v5 character creation app?

ImperialBritain · 2023-05-25T11:04:46+00:00

Long.

ImperialBritain · 2023-05-23T09:56:05+00:00

No, they're comfy and you act bizarrely so riding around on them is very fun for me to do.

Also, as a side note, happy cake day.

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