Many a true word spoken in jest

There is many a true word spoken in jest. There are quite a few amusing cartoons which we have seen over the years. I hope you enjoy these. None are meant to be unkind, and on many occasions when e.g. light-hearted quips can help us understand and empathise more. No harm intended.

  • "Anxiety is when you know 2 + 2 = 4, but you have to think about it"
    (said to me by a patient on an old age ward at St. Andrews Hospital, Norwich)
  • A psychopharmacologist is someone who knows so much about drugs, they ought to be too scared to use them
    (said by a psychopharmacologist at a conference)
  • "The trouble with being an in-patient here is that if you move, they drug you, and if you don't move, they shock you
    (said to a colleague during a group medication education session)
  • "If the brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we'd be so simple that we couldn't".
    (Accredited to Paul Greengard)

One for British readers:
This car was parked
opposite my holiday appartment
on the Greek island of Lemnos in 1996.
Just what I wanted after a hard years work!

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anybody know any other lighter-hearted words of wisdom or decent cartoons?
Please leave an e-mail and contribute it!

 

This site is based on original work by Steve Bazire and Sarah Branch, and developed in 2007-8 by a collaboration between Mick Collins, Maureen Ng, Rowan Purdy and Steve Bazire through NWMHFT, CSIP, ABPI, UEA, and NIMH-E

© 2008 Stephen Bazire, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
 

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Information here is based on published data. References include the UK British National Formulary (BNF, published by the British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain), Martindale (the extra pharmacopoea, published by RPSGB Pharmaceutical Press), Psychotropic Drug Directory (latest edition), Data Sheet Compendium (UK Manufacturers Data Sheets, published by the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry), MicroMedex (an independent and extensive CD-ROM based drug information source), UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group leaflets, Royal College of Psychiatrists advice and guidelines and the current medical literature. Thanks also to all those people who left e-mail comments, suggestions and requests, who have helped shape the site.