Colleagues on Ray Watters

Colleagues on the Beat

The police often find themselves cast in the roles of counsellors or social workers by the very nature of their work yet there is hardly any 'mental health' content in their training and other social work agencies seem reluctant to count them as allies.

Dear colleagues — and other colleagues

I reckon that taken together these excellent reviews exceed the number of words in What kinship is—and is not by a considerable margin. Moreover, considering that the range of these opinions on the proposed notion of kinship as mutuality of being runs from “intuitively graspable” to “fundamentally inscrutable,” the disorder being sown by this small book would seem to qualify it as an exercise i...

Huffman and colleagues' response to Abramson and colleagues' article on statins in low risk people.

The conduct of colleagues.

Clinical scenario Mrs X attends the clinic for removal of her intrauterine device (IUD). She explains that she had it inserted as emergency contraception and now wants it removed with this period. While on the couch, she confides that her general practitioner (GP), a close friend, had fitted the IUD in his own home to avoid anyone in the village knowing about her need. She had been away to a co...

Caring for colleagues.

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and sustenance to the healing process. The center sponsors the...