Psychoblog

i have just come back from doing a guest appearance at the nottingham speech and language therapist meeting to plead for their help. they seemed really interested in my project and keen to help me find patients to scan. all very positive and hopefully soon i will be doing real groundbreaking stuff.

slt’s are a really nice group of people. the difference between therapists and doctors seem to be that therapists see their patients as people. every wednesday in the division i am based at the drug research team (all medical people) have a meeting in my office around the table behind me. they talk about all the people admitted to the hospital that week who have had a stroke; who has died from it, who is likely to die from it and who they can get into one of their drug trials. the degree of emotional detachment they have from the patients sometimes shocks me. i guess they need to be like this to be able to do their job. just takes a bit of getting used to. i’m glad i don’t need to be like that.

got to make a poster now to convince people with aphasia that it would be a great idea to come have their brain scanned for the greater good. it /is/ a great idea though so hopefully some people will come forward.