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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 3h

Medical students and residents learn formulaic ways of conducting consultations. But in reality these can often develop in multiple directions, and be more like freeform jazz than line dancing. How do we teach this?

My latest "Talking Point" @bmj.com

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John Launer: The pluripotent consultation

Every time I teach, I try to introduce an exercise I’ve never done before. I hope this ensures that people are less likely to be bored if they’ve already been to one of my workshops, but it also keeps...

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 4d

I gave up trying to delete my account as it was so difficult. So I changed my profile to say "I never use LinkedIn." They still send me career updates on people I don't recall ever knowing but at least it's easy to delete these.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 6d

Important new book by current and former staff of all faith backgrounds at the Tavistock Clinic.

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How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?: one group's experience in unspoken territory | Nadia Dabbagh

Well, this is the first time I've started a post on Linked In. It is to share the news that, as child mental health professionals who either trained or worked at the Tavistock Clinic London, we have p...

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 12d

I bet that's the dilute version. You left out all the juicy bits.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 15d

I didn't think it was your field.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 18d

Does anyone want an old church pedal organ and a red three-seater sofa? No I didn't think so.

But they're free to anyone who can pick them up from a storage unit in Rhyl, North Wales. Can't get rid of them for love or money but very sad about this.

(I bought the organ in Llanrwst for £1 in 1970)

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 20d

Yet again, the structures and funding for medical education in England are being reorganised.

Will anything be learned from the successes and follies of previous rounds of musical chairs?

My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 20d

Yet again, the structures and funding for medical education in England are being reorganised.

Will anything be learned from the successes and follies of previous rounds of musical chairs?

My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

www.bmj.com

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 24d

Lots on the approach to narrative practice at www.conversationsinvitingchange.com.

Details of the organisation at www.anph.org

Conversations Inviting Change – Effective dialogue for health & social care

www.conversationsinvitingchange.com

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 24d

I get a real buzz from ignoring signs like that.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 24d

A date for your diary. The AGM of the Association of Narrative Practice in Health Care will feature some of the latest developments in teaching and learning "Conversations Inviting Change", including our online courses in the UK and Japan, the use of AI, and Educating Against Hatred.

Open to all.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 24d

"Narrative Means to Normative Ends." Jens Foell and I make the case for using a story-centred approach in statutory contexts like safeguarding procedures and compulsory admission. Just out in the Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Narrative means to normative ends: story-centred practice in statutory contexts

Narrative medicine places the patient's story at the centre of health care. It assumes that, in almost every clinical encounter, patients need to tell their stories, feel that these have been heard at...

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 26d

Apparently the police are about to announce the culprit any minute now. It's a cliff hanger.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 27d

In my experience, he sometimes just didn't fit in.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 27d

Does western civilisation deserve to survive?

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 28d

It's beyond shoddy. It's totally unhinged.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 29d

A new book by current and former staff of the Tavistock Clinic, including an Epilogue I contributed: "How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel."

www.amazon.co.uk/even-talk-ab...

How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?: one group's experience in unspoken territory: Amazon.co.uk: 2024, Tavistock Working Group, Dabbagh, Dr Nadia Taysir, Freeman, Dr Mona, Hollins, Dr Kath...

Buy How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?: one group's experience in unspoken territory by 2024, Tavistock Working Group, Dabbagh, Dr Nadia Taysir, Freeman, Dr Mona, Hollins, Dr Kathryn, Tro...

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Sep 4

The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social.

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Encounters with three remarkable women

"Although I knew so little about them at the time I met them, it now feels an extraordinary privilege to have encountered these three remarkable women." A slice of memoir from John Launer

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Sep 4

I once cured a friend's cat of sciatica over the Atlantic by beaming homeopathic thoughts.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 2

Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi

As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Aug 29

I have innumerable ones.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Aug 28

May his soul be magnified.

John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Possibly the Greek junta. (Although indirectly the Turkish invasion of Cyprus played a part.) But the US may be unique as a case of fascism arising in a mature and pluralistic democracy, so who can predict?

John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Aug 27

The debate about PSA screening is complex and not best addressed by click bait headlines about single cases.

prostatecanceruk.org/for-health-p...

PSA Consensus 2024

Our latest consensus is an essential read for healthcare professionals working in primary care and who have conversations with men about prostate cancer risk and PSA blood testing pros and cons.

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Edith Piaf bought the flat below him and she never regretted it.

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