Dr Andrew Coote · Clinical informatics
I'm a doctor and clinical informatician. I work on digital systems in healthcare, and this is where I write about things I've been thinking about or reading.
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My posts and reading notes: articles I've enjoyed, with quick summaries and thoughts.
An interesting argument that meaning comes partly from continuity: experiences we share, remember and return to, rather than things that pass without leaving much trace. Novelty matters, but so do familiarity, relationships and a sense of …
Read the original: How I think about meaning, and my sneaky tricks for manufacturing more of it ↗An observational cohort study of 70,257 adults in US electronic health records with schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes. Starting a GLP-1 receptor agonist was associated with lower rates of psychiatric hospitalisation and psychiatric emergen…
Read the original: GLP-1 receptor agonist initiation and risk of psychiatric hospitalisation and emergency department presentation ↗Jack Goulder explores how a small group of researchers can make a relatively well-studied question appear much more unsettled in public than it is among researchers. His example is antidepressants: a review questioning the simple serotonin…
Read the original: Merchants of Psychiatric Doubt ↗A great list of concepts and links from Experimental History: research fraud and peer review, why tigers are orange, butterfly memories that survive metamorphosis, the Antikythera mechanism, and the surprising history of trepanation. I par…
Read the original: Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) ↗A first-person account of psychosis and the complicated work of taking medication every day. The author describes each dose as another decision to acknowledge being unwell, even when the treatment helps. When symptoms have been present for…
Read the original: Treatment Ambivalence and the Shock of Consensus Reality ↗ABOUT / 02