Just when you thought you'd seen all the madness for the year 2020 comes a shocking document that was released on Twitter last week that defies belief!
The upload came from Marie Bismark, a Psychiatry registrar and Principal Research Fellow - Public Health Law at the Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health.
Bismark told almost 6,000 of her followers she was questioning her entire profession after she stumbled upon a mock exam guidance question (below)
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The document received backlash from many on Twitter. Both medical professionals and patients alike found it stigmatizing. Remember, this is an example of the kind of question a trainee psychiatrist would expect when sitting an exam.
The tweet has been liked and shared many times, some have even chipped in with their own diagnosis for poor old Cinders, although in the main this is Twitter psychiatrists and psychologists.
One offered the following advice: "Adjustment Disorder with resulting depression and anxiety. Main defence fantasy. Requires psychosis support and ego strengthening."
I had to pinch myself.
Former Royal College of Psychiatrists president, Wendy Burn even chimed in with:
Dr Kate Lovett, Dean of Royal College of Psychiatrists, however, did not see it as a 'misguided idea of a joke' when she tweeted directly to Bismark: "Hi Marie. Was extremely disturbed to see this. I know you are based in Australia but I am sure colleagues @RANZCP would be very concerned too. Would you DM me the context so we can make sure this is dealt with. There is no place for such stigmatising & harmful attitudes anywhere."
The document, as far as I can see, has caused a lot of red faces in the field of psychiatry. If this is how they guide trainees then it would appear that any future patient will be almost immediately stigmatized as soon as they visit a psychiatrist, some would argue that this goes on today. The Cinderella question isn't really that bad, I guess they had to pick a fictional character. It's the options for answers that I find troublesome and, it appears, Bismark did too.
I really like the following tweet of hers describing the morals of the story of Cinderella. Sadly, psychiatrist, David Foreman, who is well known to this blog, couldn't help but post something negative as a reply to Bismark's heartfelt message.
Schadenfreude, if you didn't know, is pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
The general consensus is Cinderella teaches the morals of kindness towards all, forgiving others for doing wrong, and never letting bad things ruin your heart. The themes of the story are good versus evil and luck changing your life.
Quite why Foreman chose to piss in Bismark's Cornflakes is anyone's guess but it does highlight his negative thinking and rationale.
Many patient safety advocates were astounded by the mock exam question and decided to throw out their own questions and possible answers. Here's just a small collection of them.
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