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Sorry to clog up the network with a mild complaint - so please delete when read. My concern is the informal use of the term used for the medical condition schizophrenia, i.e. schizophrenic. The informal usage definition being - experiencing or maintaining contradictory attitudes, emotions, etc. The use of this term to describe contradictory roles, in Charles's email below, tends to perpetuates the popular view that schizophrenia is manifested only through symptoms such as split personality or worse, Jekyll and Hyde. This is far from the case - there are many symptoms of schizophrenia, of which this is the most notorious, sensational and populist held understanding. Informal use of terms for medical conditions is deeply hurtful to sufferers and carers, particularly when the usage tends to consolidate popular misunderstanding of the condition. Sorry Charles - I'm not having a go at you. This email requires no responses Gil Richardson Senior Information Manager RCGP email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.rcgp.org.uk Tel: 0171 581 3232 ext 231 Fax: 0171 225 3047 -----Original Message----- From: Charles Christacopoulos [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 25 October 2000 8:39 pm To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Email monitoring ** Reply to note from "GOULDING, Susan - NC" <[log in to unmask]> Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:23:50 +0100 > All of which proves my grandmother's > adage that "there's nowt so queer as folk" and ensures that reminders to > staff about email use will need to be repeated at frequent intervals.. Aha!!! Therefore we have a dual schizophrenic role for data protection officers. First we have to protect the employer from daft employees ... then we have to protect the employees from the bad employer. Then we become bad because the employer pays us to look after the interests of the corporation not to safeguard the interests of the employees. I think I should reread Catch-22 ;-) Regards Charles PS. This is not a definition of how I would play the role. I have cracked it in my mind but would not discuss it publicly. The big bunny in the corner of my office agrees with me. ============================================== Charles Christacopoulos, Secretary's Office, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44+(0)1382-344891. Fax: +44+(0)1382-201604. http://somis.ais.dundee.ac.uk/ Scottish Search Maestro http://somis2.ais.dundee.ac.uk/ This e-mail is confidential. It may not be disclosed to, or used by, anyone other than the addressee. If you receive this message in error, please advise the sender immediately. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%