TY - JOUR T1 - Something important to say JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 749 LP - 749 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X613250 VL - 61 IS - 593 AU - James Willis Y1 - 2011/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/593/749.abstract N2 - ‘We use the word ‘unbalanced’ to describe an insane mind. Thus the accumulated wisdom embodied in the very language we speak acknowledges the fundamental role of balance in the definition of sanity. So when I say that the common mind of our society is unbalanced, I am making a very serious diagnosis. I am saying that the common mind of society is, to some extent, insane. But that is what I do say.’1I learned today that medical students in Wales (at least) cannot go out in an accident ambulance unless they have had a 3-day course of ‘violence training’. (So they don’t.)This is madness. The people who make these rules are fools. They commit their follies because they view the world from a narrow, artificially-mediated perspective which, for … ER -