Yesterday, I sent a friend who works in a hospital in Scotland the Egyptian Ministry of Health's guidelines for managing psychiatric inpatients during heatwaves. These guidelines were developed and circulated following the deaths of 10 patients from heat-related complications in 2015.

These are mostly low-cost interventions like:

• keeping patients hydrated
• provide cool areas
• limit sun exposure
• lower antipsychotic doses to the minimum needed and avoid long‑acting forms
• stop the drug if core temperature rises …

Five weeks passed since the US and Israel started their unprovoked and illegal war on Iran (it is illegal according to UN experts).

With how things are looking the war seems to be dragging on for much longer than Trump stated. He said it will only take 5 to 6 weeks. Yesterday, he had a major tantrum on Trash Social.

To date, the war has achieved nothing but death and destruction to all parties involved …

This is a list of psychiatry podcasts that I have found useful. This post is part of a series of on digital resources for mental health professionals.

1. Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast by Dr. David J. Puder is in my opinion the best psychiatry podcast online. It has been running for a very long time and has covered excellent topics with great care. He also interviews a wide array of experts. Each episode comes with detailed show …

Update: Unfortunately, we won't be able to take part in the event due to the illness of a family member.

We have signed up for this year's Galala Challenge which will take place on Friday, November 7th.

Probably one of the largest cycling events in Egypt. There are three distances 50, 90 and 150kms. It is a non-competitive ride with different tiers for different levels of riding. There is a 10km timed segment for those …

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This issue keeps being discussed in conferences and online. I want to put my position here so I can just forward the link because I am really bored by the repetitiveness of it.

Our profession, at its core, is based on caring. A machine will never be able to genuinely do that. If you think it can care, you are being mislead by marketing hype.

Other problems with AI include, very large amounts of energy …

My Kindle is from 2012, it is a 5th generation Kindle Paperwhite, and it works perfectly. I don't need to buy a new one. Unfortunately, it is no longer supported by Amazon (it won't receive new updates). So if and when its hardware fails, I would like to have the option to buy whichever brand of ereader I like without feeling locked in the Kindle brand by my previous purchases from Amazon.

I first tried …

Update: It is online again.

Mastodon Online is down for an hour or two now. The status page has identified the error and the admins are working on getting it fixed. This sucks of course because this instance hosts my mastodon account. So I can't post or read my timeline.

Due to its decentralised nature, Mastodon and the wider fediverse are still functioning normally and all other servers and instances are talking to each other …

I can't believe we are still calling for Alaa's freedom in 2025. Particularly on the 14th anniversary of January 25.

He finished his last sentence more than 100 days ago. His mother has been on a hunger strike since.

Alaa was arrested in 2019. Two years later, he received a non-appealable 5 years sentence from a state security court for sharing a Facebook post about prison conditions in Egypt.

He spent the majority of the …

I wanted to write 150 blog posts this year, but clearly that was way too optimistic. This is the 52nd post of the year and probably the last one for 2024. Not bad honestly. Next month this blog will be 20 years old!

• Alaa's mother Dr. Laila Soueif is entering her 81st day of her hunger strike to free her son. Her protest seems to be ignored by the Egyptian and UK governments. She lost …