I last wrote about Harry in July 2009. Harry was an elderly man living alone in squalor, probably with Diogenes Syndrome, causing carers and...

Back in the days when I used to do out of hours on call duties, Christmas Day was generally considered a good shift to have – you got double...

It was 4.30 on a Friday afternoon in November. It was raining outside. I was looking forward to the weekend. Then the phone rang. Miranda wa...

Gerry was a 19 year old young man whose father was a banker. He had attended a private school and had done very well academically. He was in...

I already knew Ian. At the beginning of the year I had been called out to assess him at his flat. His family had contacted the GP because he...

First thing in the morning I had to go to Woodland House, our local psychiatric hospital, to attend a Managers Hearing for a patient detaine...

One thing I have learned as an AMHP is never to show patients that you are frightened of them. (Come to think of it, hints and tips for AMHP...