Elizabeth Miller hits the Telegraph

She is lookin good!

Here is the link

"Mind's chief executive, Paul Farmer, says that Miller is a "fantastic role model", working in a demanding profession yet finding time to be a passionate mental health campaigner."

Nice plug for forthcoming book :)

"In a new book called Mood Mapping, to be published later this year, Miller will demonstrate how people can manage their own mental wellbeing, based on her experiences of the past 10 years. She has not taken medication for six years now. "I used to go off sick because I was ill. Now, I go off sick to stop myself getting ill," she says. "My illness will not come back because I know what the triggers are and I have support networks. No one's going to ruin my day again"

Of course, Miller is more than the above. She is a great friend, a witty and brave person. She is also an extremely kind and generous lady. Apart from the cosmetics of the media, that is the most important aspect of her persona. That is what sets her apart from the rest of the selfish and conceited and sometimes arrogant world of medicine.

From my own side, she doesn't deal with whistleblowers like me as if they are a pariah or someone to be wary of. That is the impression given by the entire blogsphere of doctors or GPs. I cannot say I am ever impressed with this half paranoid effect of the blogsphere but there you go - it is simply another aspect of the cultural treatment of whistleblowers we all have to learn to accept.

Miller though has always been brave enough to associate with me and to be my friend. Indeed, it should be an example to other doctors - that she hasn't been "got at" or attacked and hasn't disappeared because of her association with me. People do associate with me - just that doctors have second, third and fourth thoughts about it. Jobbing Doctor for instance keeps his emails down to one line in fear of what could happen, may happen and might happen. Of course, nothing will happen but their paranoia isn't my problem.

By contrast, other medical bloggers have been wary, questioning and suspicious and today I came to the conclusion that I really cannot change anyone's perception or minds. They simply have to work it out for themselves as Miller did.