Does ‘A Beautiful Mind’ reveal the real John Nash? by Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud FRCPsych Most winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics remain much more obscure than John Nash, who along with his wife, recently died in a car crash tragedy. Nash shot to fame following the Russell Crowe film, ‘‘A Beautiful Mind’’, […]
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GIVING EACH UK CITIZEN THEIR OWN HEALTH BUDGET WILL CURE THE TERMINALLY ILL HEALTH SERVICE Dr Raj Persaud FRCPsych Headlines this week include that NHS trusts in England are suffering a total deficit of more than £800m for the current financial year, meanwhile the BMA attacked Government proposals of seven-day GP surgeries, […]
Ugh! That’s SO Disgusting! How repulsion predicts your sex life Dr Raj Persaud and Dr Peter Bruggen Academics at the Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, USA, point out in a recent study, that to have sex, we have to overcome strong feelings of disgust. Their study, published in the journal ‘Archives of Sexual Behaviour’, […]
IS THERE REAL PATIENT CHOICE IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE? Dr Raj Persaud FRCPsych Aneuryn Bevan the Secretary for State of Health after much pain with the Doctors, pushed the NHS out on July 5th 1948 – the day the NHS was delivered to an expectant nation – so Bevan could be […]
The Love Vote – How Your Partner Swings the Election Raj Persaud Which single individual is going to influence you in how to vote in the general election more than any other? Recent research suggests voters will be most swayed by a spouse. A study entitled ‘The Political Values and Choices of Husbands and Wives‘, […]
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