Author: preetikaur
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The Cost of Inaction
Why Investing In Refugee Mental Health Makes Economic and Moral Sense. Originally published in The Doc Suit Debrief. Imagine one day losing your home, leaving behind everything you know, and having no sense of safety. Then, you are expected to rebuild your life with the traumas you are carrying in an unknown, often hostile, environment.…
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Book Review: Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
Quote of the book “The right to participate politically grants recognition to the moral personhood of the citizen, and exercise of that right gives that person some degree of agency over the common life of the community.” 5 key points Review Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy is…
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Book Review: The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson
Quote of the book “Nursing people means doing for them what they would normally do, when they have no will to do it, until they have will to do it”. 5 key points Review This book left me torn. On content and message alone, this would easily receive five stars – I loved the message…
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Book Review: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Quote of the book “We have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart” 5 key points Review “The Audacity of Hope” by Obama was published in 2006 whilst he was a Senator, before he became president. In this book, Obama shares his views on…
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Book Review: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Quote of the book “It is time for us to reclaim our right to a full night of sleep, without embarrassment or the damaging stigma of laziness” 5 key points Review Are you a morning lark or night owl? Do you prefer sleeping later and waking up later or sleeping earlier at night and waking…
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Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Quote of the book “It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.” 5 key points Review In terms of understanding the world around us and how the human mind works, this is a very comprehensive book that takes you…
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Book Review: When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It by Professor Rory O’Connor
Quote of the book “Suicide is not selfish. Characterising suicide as selfish simply adds to the stigma around it. And when stigma increases, help-seeking declines, ignorance flourishes and deaths soar.” 5 key points Review Professor Rory O’Connor is one of the leading voices in psychiatry and suicide research. He is a distinguished academic in psychology…
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Book Review: because i knew you: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul by Bob Macauley
Quote of the book “It’s easier to believe that sick kids always get better and death comes only for those who’ve lived a full and fulfilling life.” 5 key points Review Dr Bob Macauley is one of the few pediatric palliative care doctors in the United States, with a very personal story for why he…
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Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2025
Conference Reflections In June 2025, thousands of psychiatrists, researchers, and clinicians met in Wales for the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2025. This is one of the UK’s leading conferences in mental health, exploring emerging challenges, scientific advances, and human experiences at the heart of psychiatry. I was particularly drawn to sessions on insomnia,…
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Book Review: Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
Quote of the book “One of the worst legacies of colonialism is that its ill effects outlasted the Empire” 5 key points Review Inglorious Empire offers a polemical, historical account of British colonialism in India. Sometimes history books can be heavy and dense to read, but I found that this one was written with language…
Preeti Kaur 