Hi Fay,
I can't let you lay into Robbie unchallenged. I use similar techniques.
Now I know that my style of medicine went out with Attila the Hun,
however it has a lot to recomend it
A consultation goes like this.
"You are a horrible little monster. GET OFF THE BLOODY SCALES YOU LITTLE
BASTARD. Now sit down before I nail your neck to the floor." (The later
is said in the same tone of voice that I use to control my
alsation/stafford bull terrier cross. An interesting cross that needs
discipline, just like these kids).
After I have had my little outburst, there is no more trouble. Why is it
so difficult. Training children is like training puppies. In wolf packs
the alpha female and alpha male control the pack. The alpha female takes
over any litter of pups which lower ranked females produces, and brings
them up herself so that the pups can fulfill a full role in the pack.
What an interesting social model. The problem with these kids
is that there is no alpha male and the female is often an omega female,
and we wonder why these kids are screwed up. None of this is brain
surgery. I only had one complaint about this, when I was a trainee and
told a middle class mother that her child could be trained like a
puppie. At the time I had a hyperactive springer spaniel who was far
more difficult to control than her child.
In my practice, if you don't get on with me, leave and go to another
practice (I won't shed any tears). If you are verbally or physcially
violent, you will be shown the door and thrown through it, quite
literally on odd ocassions. Doctors only have problems if you tolerate
them. And now I don't live in Utopia. We have a very active local drug
scene, and those addicts I treat conform or I throw them out. They
rapidly learn.
Richard Johnson
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>From: Robbie Coull [log in to unmask]
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:23:10 +0000
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>>What about the effects of societal influence, genetic predisposition,
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>neural
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>>disorder? It is ok castign aspersions; remember it's not so long since
>>schizophrenia was thought to be due to the wrong sort of parenting.
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>Bollocks, Fay.
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>Schizophrenia became a proper diagnosis when they found physical evidence of
>a disease.
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>There is no such evidence (yet!) for ADHD etc..
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>Plus I can fix 95% of these kids in under 5 minutes, which I can't do with
>Schizophrenia.
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>Robbie
>I see - it's only a "proper diagnosis" once there is physical evidence of a
>disease. And a further differentiator between a proper diagnosis and an
>invented excuse by an inadequate mother (father usually absent)is that R
>Coull can fix 95% of the latter in under 5 minutes. You are wasted
>locumming in the Highlands and Islands, Robbie, you should be practising in
>inner Birmingham and we would all be grateful for your curative presence.
>Maybe you could come here for an annuul visit and do healing sessions at
>the NIA? I'm trembling in anticipation :-)
>Fay
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