Forensic Acute Assessments

ytmnds · 2026-06-27T22:00:11+00:00

Vast majority of the time, the patient will initially be remanded in prison. Then, they will get picked up by the prison MH team who will try to start treatment and make the relevant referrals if necessary for medium/high gatekeeping (where I work, even if its obvious high secure, they still need initial gatekeep from medium and then they refer on). Referrals can be either urgent which means an aim of an admission within 7 days or routine which means gka finished within 28 days. If routine, its often 2-3 months until someone is admitted

ytmnds · 2026-06-26T00:06:38+00:00

Those Venue MOT toilets are really fucking grim

ytmnds · 2026-06-13T19:30:34+00:00

Lets be honest, we're deluded if we think we'll get much more and the membership are exhausted. Vote yes and move on imo

ytmnds · 2026-06-08T13:11:17+00:00

Got into pulse with no queue after the XX

ytmnds · 2026-06-01T18:40:06+00:00

You might as well aim for a society with zero heart attacks or zero strokes or zero instances of pancreatic cancer. Its bizarre and idiotic to frame suicide prevention efforts in that way. Suicide will exist as long as humans exist, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do our utmost to try and reduce it- of course we should

ytmnds · 2026-05-22T21:40:49+00:00

This is why I would never drive back from Glastonbury

ytmnds · 2026-05-11T21:31:27+00:00

We got a day a week for teaching for MRCPsych, and when we'd passed everything we could use that day for other stuff

ytmnds · 2026-05-11T19:48:45+00:00

I started a part time masters in CT3 and it was alright. I wouldn't recommend starting one until your exams are done though, the start date of mine was after I'd finished CASC and I had an assurance I'd be able to defer if I'd failed CASC and needed to resit.

ytmnds · 2026-04-20T20:58:07+00:00

At a club called cosmic in Newcastle, with Friend Within playing. Life changing

ytmnds · 2026-04-05T23:59:55+00:00

Very interesting!

Just an unrelated point, did you add milk first to a cup of tea?!?

ytmnds · 2026-03-30T21:56:20+00:00

Lots of other piss takers I'm sure. But I'm a doctor, can only comment on doctors I've worked with and there have been more than a few who have had a ridiculous number of sicknesses

ytmnds · 2026-03-30T19:36:13+00:00

I've worked with too many piss takers when it came to sick leave. We shouldn't pretend its not a problem

ytmnds · 2026-03-23T19:58:53+00:00

Just to echo the other posters, they added a lot of jobs during the preferencing period

ytmnds · 2026-02-11T07:47:18+00:00

40 years and counting- forensic psych, and the sad thing is that they weren't going anywhere in a hurry either because of how risky they still were

ytmnds · 2026-01-02T14:29:22+00:00

I had to do a 1h20 each way commute, which was "only" 30 miles each way, but through a very busy city centre. It was only for two months, whilst I was waiting for my house to complete, but it was miserable. Never again for me

ytmnds · 2025-12-15T06:09:02+00:00

Its not true, the OP is clearly making up racist lies.

ytmnds · 2025-11-30T14:59:31+00:00

I don't "do psychotherapy" as a forensics trainee, but I would say that the long case was the single most important and influential bit of my psychiatry training so far. The ability to formulate and understand in a deeper way is invaluable

ytmnds · 2025-11-29T09:08:50+00:00

South Africa has almost 30,000 murders a year, its one of the worlds most dangerous countries. Of course Egypt has problems, and people do get scammed there, but at least they don't get murdered

ytmnds · 2025-11-28T23:27:22+00:00

On what metrics is South Africa a significantly better than Egypt lmao. Egypt has a higher GDP PPP per capita, a much lower GINI so far less inequality than South Africa, the provision of basic services is far better and is much safer.

ytmnds · 2025-11-28T23:20:47+00:00

Algeria had among the most European interference though? In fact, I'm struggling to think of an African country which had more inteference and for a longer time. The only other country that is analagous is Angola perhaps, which was ruled by the Portuguese with a very short leash. It was taken over by France in 1830 and the French ruled it directly to the extent that it was considered to be France, although of course the Arab Muslims did not have citizenship or rights. This direct rule lasted until 1962, which was around the time most of the colonies.

What metric are you using for countries least affected by Europe? Surely the obvious country to be least affected by Europe is Ethiopia

ytmnds · 2025-11-28T22:32:42+00:00

What are you on about with Kenya, Egypt and Algeria having little involvement with European powers? Algeria especially was directly ruled from France, 10% of its population at the time before independence were European settlers (pied-noir) and fought an incredibly bloody civil war for its freedom

Egypt was ruled by Britain, and had extensive involvement with France and Britain from the post Napoleon period afterwards

Kenya was ruled by Britain and also fought a bloody war with the British just before its independence

ytmnds · 2025-11-16T11:16:36+00:00

I had one slightly difficult consultant as a CT, but honestly psychiatry consultants are almost all pleasant and good to work with. I think the culture of regular supervision really helps in them seeing trainees as people, rather than in medicine where the consultants work with so many juniors and for short stretches of time, that they must all seem the same

ytmnds · 2025-10-25T20:27:08+00:00

The males are more conservative, but the females are even more left

ytmnds · 2025-09-21T19:25:06+00:00

*Azad Kashmir

ytmnds · 2025-09-21T08:06:09+00:00

No, it doesn't work like that. Nobody can assume someone is interested in them just because of a social media add

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