'Best Interests' - Audio Drama by Sasha Hails

by Sasha Hails

Peter Polycarpou (Read by), Gerard McDermott (Read by), Jonathan Forbes (Read by), James Lailey (Read by), Alex Tregear (Read by), Susie Riddell (Read by), Elaine Caxton (Read by)


A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

'Two new dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas. When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Doctor Who fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right to listen?

Starring Gunnar Cauthery, Clare Perkins, Simon Bubb, and Carl Prekopp. With Peter Polycarpou, Gerard McDermott, Jonathan Forbes, James Lailey, Alex Tregear, Susie Riddell and Elaine Claxton. Script Consultant: Jim Blair, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.'

My source: 

Jim Blair @jimgblair - https://x.com/jimgblair/status/1906993515038429252

Blankets and DNR . . .

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     INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

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Initially not person-centred, I -	Blankets
- recall several 'conversations' with junior doctors. The situation was 'recovered'.	"Blanket use of forms"

22:00-22:30 BBC News at Ten. DNR - Do Not Resuscitate 

DNR is a critical aspect of health care that will not go away. It can't as part of the interface (to put it mechanistically) between life, death, and quality of life and death. Ever since and even prior to the Liverpool Care Pathway, the issues raised in medical care, humanity, dignity and respect, ethics, professionalism, integrity and governance are challenging to reconcile.

Hodges' model can play a part in critical thinking about not just a troublesome concept, but the interaction of several and making sense of them and the situation to hand - and heart. 

As such Hodges' model isn't going away either.

Knights D, Wood D, Barclay S. The Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying: what went wrong? Br J Gen Pract. 2013 Oct;63(615):509-10. doi: 10.3399/bjgp13X673559. PMID: 24152449; PMCID: PMC3782767.

Forgotten in a Crisis: Addressing dementia in humanitarian response

SELF - individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - POPULATION

Difficulty in Understanding	Natural Disasters Conflict War Crimes Refugee Crises
Difficulty in being Understood	Forgotten in a Crisis: Report

ADI, GADAA and Alzheimer's Pakistan launch report on Dementia in Humanitarian Settings

My source: Several - inc Channel 4 News 12 May 2019.

"Not a Problem to Solve. It’s a Polarity to Manage"

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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POPULATION

	See: http://organizationalphysics.com/2017/05/17/its-not-a-problem-to-solve-its-a-polarity-to-manage/

My source:

It’s Not a Problem to Solve. It’s a Polarity to Manage. @LexSisney HT @timkastelle https://t.co/sy4qHoxopJ pic.twitter.com/aNKQRP7hRa

— Mark Storm (@marksstorm) May 21, 2017