Today I paid a return visit to the Abraham Cowley Unit at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey. Thankfully this time the visit was a lot more enjoyable.

I’d been asked by the psychiatrists there to be assessed by new doctors taking their psychiatry exams. Great fun, well for me anyway. The poor young woman who had me as her patient to asses and diagnose my BiPolar II in a one hour exam was terrified.

I offered to do it again next year thinking that it must be a real benefit for doctors to do their exams by talking to real patients with conditions they’ll be diagnosing when they’ve qualified.

Sadly, it’s not to be. Next year the NHS will be paying professional actors to act the part of patients with mental health conditions.

Ummm… Can’t quite get my head around that one.

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