Jaspers! “the idea of the disease-entity is in truth an idea in Kant’s sense of the word: the concept of an objective which one cannot reach…but all the same it indicates the path for fruitful research and supplies a valid point of orientation for…empirical investigations”

In the #AssistedDying Bill, we have reached a crucial point in medical ethics. I will always believe that preserving life is paramount, that helping people through their worst crisis is essential. I will never accept that helping patients take their lives is part of our role.

Why physician-assisted suicide has no place in the NHS | BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

This is the fourth Nazi euthanasia memorial site I've visited. If you’re interested in this topic and want to learn more, check out my article: “Euthanasia in the Castle: Inside Europe’s Museums of Nazi Medical Crimes” in @PublicDiscourse.

The calling for death to people is a criminal offence in the UK. I anticipate appropriate action will be taken as a matter of priority to arrest those who believe they are beyond the law.

🏆 We did it! 🎉 Delighted to share that Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been named Digital Organisation of the Year 2025 at the hashtag #HSJDigitalAwards.

Sadly there was no box for ‘entryism’ but I ticked ‘trades union’ so I hope that will do

@paul42smg First task of the entryist is to read the rule book.

Very grateful for @regalexa highlight the discrepancy between law and justice at #RCPsychIC25

Rob Poole - scathing about the neglect in modern service structures of the patients who have the wrong kind of problems for our ‘specialist’ services

If we are to withstand our enemies, bring our society together, and tame the technium (somehow ensure that human values govern the new age of machines), we are going to need values that are up to the job. I don't think humanist atheism or progressive liberalism or whatever the

Christians by contrast think human beings are fallen - weak, selfish, dangerous - so we don't trust them with absolute power. That's why over the centuries, especially in England, the idea developed that the law should protect us from each other, and even from ourselves, and

@tomgordonLD Tom, why did you and other campaigners ignore the @rcpsych concerns? The devil is in the detail.

I've been accused of disguising something myself - my Christian faith. And it's true that while I've never hidden it (see my maiden speech) I didn't parade my faith as the basis of my objection to assisted suicide. You don't need religious arguments to show this Bill is bad,

We will

Opposing the #AssistedDyingBill isn’t being immune to painful patient stories or dismissive of choice. It’s about social responsibility, our duty to help people through despair. About the value we place on human life. 1/2

Nothing progressive about nations where •1 in 20 deaths, thousands/year, are by AD •these include people with mental illness •medical ethics are re-written against views of many doctors •inc those in palliative medicine, specialists in terminal care.

Not the main argument against #AssistedDyingBill that I would use, but it could be the best approach to use with Labour MPs.

https://t.co/kINc0PYdUc

The Leadbeater bill is on a knife-edge; but if it passes, you can expect in 10-15 years to hear its backers saying, “Of course, in retrospect…” and “Hindsight is 20/20” and “Had we known then what we know now…” Thread on what we know now, June 10 2025:

Privileged to be in this company - a tradition dating back 2500 years - ‘I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan’