How difficult it is to stay
between the tears and the blood,
to listen to sounds that only
with time and rarely
become melody,
to endure chaos
that cannot be understood.
You have numbers to erase the tears,
medicines to cleanse the blood,
protocols to silence the
harrowing sounds,
techniques to tame chaos.
You have a science that like
a skilled magician
pulls out of the cylinder
the wise rabbit
and makes disappear the man
that was inside
P.S.: sorry for my awful English
I’m sorry, however, that the article is considered only as a fun parody. In fact, if you read the conclusions, we tried to make a very serious thought on epistemic arrogance, scientism and the traps and limits of EBM.
That’s exactly why we wrote this article. In fact, those who read it took some time to understand that it was a parody. Unfortunately, even in Italy the biological paradigm is spreading and children are increasingly being treated with psychotropic drugs. Good thing I’m close to retirement and I can save even darker times!
I am an Italian psychiatrist, who appreciates your work a lot.
Let me to recommend you a scientific paper I wrote with a colleague of mine. It’s about ADHD and ebm and I think you might be interested:
Franca Pezzoni, Giacinto Buscaglia “Attention Excess Hypoactivity Disorder (AEHD) http://www.psychiatryonline.it/node/6920
How difficult it is to stay
between the tears and the blood,
to listen to sounds that only
with time and rarely
become melody,
to endure chaos
that cannot be understood.
You have numbers to erase the tears,
medicines to cleanse the blood,
protocols to silence the
harrowing sounds,
techniques to tame chaos.
You have a science that like
a skilled magician
pulls out of the cylinder
the wise rabbit
and makes disappear the man
that was inside
P.S.: sorry for my awful English
I’m sorry, however, that the article is considered only as a fun parody. In fact, if you read the conclusions, we tried to make a very serious thought on epistemic arrogance, scientism and the traps and limits of EBM.
That’s exactly why we wrote this article. In fact, those who read it took some time to understand that it was a parody. Unfortunately, even in Italy the biological paradigm is spreading and children are increasingly being treated with psychotropic drugs. Good thing I’m close to retirement and I can save even darker times!
I am an Italian psychiatrist, who appreciates your work a lot.
Let me to recommend you a scientific paper I wrote with a colleague of mine. It’s about ADHD and ebm and I think you might be interested:
Franca Pezzoni, Giacinto Buscaglia “Attention Excess Hypoactivity Disorder (AEHD)
http://www.psychiatryonline.it/node/6920