Interview with Adeline Hazan to talk about hospitalizations without consent in psychiatry, the mystery of cracking fingers and World Bipolar Disorder Day: find the three main news of the day.
Adeline Hazan, Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL), has just published her report for the year 2017. Regarding psychiatry, she denounces an increase in hospitalizations without consent and a trivialization of restrictions, calling for an “awareness” of the rights of the hospitalized person. “In many establishments, 40%, sometimes 50%, of hospitalizations are without consent. According to national statistics, hospitalizations without consent have almost doubled over ten years! It’s a real problem, ”she explains to Why Doctor. Find the full interview in our article.
World Bipolar Disorders Day takes place this Friday, March 30. A date chosen in reference to the painter’s suicide Vincent Van Gogh, who arrived in 1890, after being interned in a French asylum. Victim of behavioral disorders which had led him, in particular, to cut his ear, the artist was very probably bipolar. What are the symptoms of this pathology? Why is it so difficult to diagnose? To find out more, here is our article.
Adeline Hazan: “In psychiatry, there is too much recourse to hospitalization without consent”
Adeline Hazan, Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL), has just published her report for the year 2017. Regarding psychiatry, she denounces an increase in hospitalizations without consent and a trivialization of restrictions, calling for an “awareness” of the rights of the hospitalized person. “In many establishments, 40%, sometimes 50%, of hospitalizations are without consent. According to national statistics, hospitalizations without consent have almost doubled over ten years! It’s a real problem, ”she explains to Why Doctor. Find the full interview in our article.
The mystery of cracking fingers finally solved
Mechanical habit for some, horrifying mania for others, the fact of cracking his fingers was until now surrounded by an aura of mystery. Where does the famous “crack” that you hear when you pull on your joints come from? Scientists have finally found the answer. According to a study published Thursday, March 28 in the journal Scientific Reports, conducted by researchers at the École Polytechnique de Palaiseau, in Essonne, and Stanford University in California, crackles are caused by the bursting of microscopic bubbles in the fluid in the joints of the fingers. For more information, click here.
World Bipolar Day: presentation of an unrecognized and misdiagnosed disease
World Bipolar Disorders Day takes place this Friday, March 30. A date chosen in reference to the painter’s suicide Vincent Van Gogh, who arrived in 1890, after being interned in a French asylum. Victim of behavioral disorders which had led him, in particular, to cut his ear, the artist was very probably bipolar. What are the symptoms of this pathology? Why is it so difficult to diagnose? To find out more, here is our article.
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