Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Um, and patients with schizophrenia die most frequently from what?
Not suicide.
Suicide is number two, but they die most frequently from cardiovascular disease.
And that is, you know, due to
smoking, but also due to these medications that they are on.
And we need to be reckoning with that when we talk to patients about these medicines, that they have extremely, extremely consequential adverse effects.
So, you know, we stopped that quotipene and my mom got better, her diabetes got better, she got off insulin, she's now just on metformin.
But after that, I I stopped interfering.
as much in her life and her relationship with her psychiatrist and you know I I stopped overmanaging her because
As a doctor trained in America, I just have this instinct to intervene.
And that instinct, it it may on the surface seem like a good thing.
Um, but sometimes you have to do nothing in order to be able to help someone.
Um, or you need to help them in ways that allow them to see things for themselves.
Um, and so I think one of the main ways that we can bring this practice into the clinic, you know.
Into clinical practice is by having with our patients a very high degree of honesty.
Avais Aftab has this idea called, uh he's a psychiatrist philosopher, he has this idea called conceptual competence.
It's about teaching clinicians about the limitations of their own field.
Um, and so we need to be teaching medical students and residents and fully trained doctors.
What mental illness is, what we mean when we say someone has, you know, anxiety or depression, because, you know.
He shows us that these categories are just that.
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