October 31, 2007

“G2 columnist Dina Rabinovitch, who died yesterday aged 44, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. As the cancer progressed – and she underwent increasingly experimental treatment – she wrote with honesty, courage and humour about the good times and the bad. Here, in extracts from her columns, we chart her journey from the shock of that first day to the final thoughts she shared about her adored family.”
“Nov 30 2004 This is odd. I look incredibly well. I’ve had a haircut, because shorter hair hangs in there longer apparently. Sarah, who has been through this with her mother, cuts my hair in her flat, a kindness to me, in case it all gets emotional. I skip down the stairs from her flat – this illness can’t catch me … eee … ee …”
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October 30, 2007

Superbugs watchdog will have power to close hospitals. A new hospital watchdog could close hospitals within 24 hours as part of the fight against superbugs, the Department of Health announced.
The Care Quality Commission will have the power to shut down wards and entire hospitals, carry out inspections, and fine health care providers. For the first time, the new regulator will also have powers over private hospitals and healthcare providers.Read more about the SUPERBUGS WATCHDOG here.
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October 29, 2007

Undiagnosed brain injury – the hidden legacy of Iraq.
The Ministry of Defence is conducting a major study into brain injury in troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan amid fears that thousands of soldiers may have suffered damage after being exposed to high-velocity explosions.
The US army says as many as 20% of its soldiers and marines have suffered “mild traumatic brain injury” (mTBI) from blows to the head or shockwaves caused by explosions.
I hope the study is not done by my big friend, otherwise they will spend years denying the stuff as that is routine policy where he works.
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October 28, 2007
So why is the C30 so different? For a start, it only has two doors. Big deal, you may think, but it’s an overt statement that this car is not aimed at the usual Volvo market (family man, harassed wife, snot-nosed kids and drooling Lab).
It is instead hoping to lure the young, urban, design-literate, first-time Volvo buyer into its leathery embrace.
You see, and this is what any bloke would want, NICE life, NICE car, but hey, I’m stuck on the sofa and apparently that’s what the CBT PROFESSOR says we want.
Smart guy.
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October 27, 2007
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SIMON WESSELY AND HIV POSITIVE DOCTORS
October 26, 2007

“In 2002, when I was in my mid-20s, I went down with a severe cold and was in bed for a couple of days.I was feeling lousy, with a headache and stiff neck, so a GP friend looked in on me to check that I was OK.
Neither of us recognised my symptoms as anything more than a bad bout of flu.
Eight weeks later, at a routine check-up, I was diagnosed as HIV positive. I felt shocked. “
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SIMON WESSELY SUPPORTS ONE CLICK APPEAL
October 25, 2007
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SIMON WESSELY AND LYING
October 24, 2007

Are They Lying to You?
Deception hurts in many ways.
Here are seven subtle cues that often mean a person isn’t being completely honest with you.
A CIA man is giving deception awareness seminars, to learn how to cope with the collusional delusionists from the CBT KINGDOM, as Dr Speedy calls it.
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SIMON WESSELY AND CHEATING
October 23, 2007

ITV call-TV deception: deliberate, routine and editorial
Michael Grade (CHIEF MAN) promised zero tolerance of viewer deception, but ITV’s response to the Deloitte report is not good enough.
ITV’s Deloitte audit into premium rate interactive services – also known as the “bloodbath” – has been a long time in gestation.
It was March when this one first kicked off and a long seven and a half months of “I can’t comment on that until the report has been published” for ITV, while other broadcasters bore the brunt of the shock that these casual deceptions have caused.
Read all at ITV BLOODBATH .
Lovely dovely stuff.
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SIMON WESSELY HOKUS POKUS SECRETS
October 22, 2007

Hokus pokus SIMON WESSELY AND HIS STRATEGIC GUIDE TO THE SECRET LANGUAGES THAT OPEN DOORS EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE and that EARNS YOU MILLIONS and MILLIONS OF BOB at the same time.
Just come TO Simon Wessely’s magical talk and all will be well.Tell everybody, the magician from LONDON is back to spread the magical words and call you all a liar and malingerer at the same time.
Fabulastic opportunity to GET a really NICE day out of the house.
(cartoon by HANS-MICHAEL SOBETZKO).
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