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Michael Livingston

@DrMLivingston

Rural Generalist. Doctor. Father. Pilot. Remote. Rural. Solo. Scottish #Rural #Remote #RuralGeneralist #ACRRM #Govan #Scotland

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Wow

Casting, acting, script 10/10

I was a bit meh about watching it. But watch it you should

Wow wow wow

One of the best TV series I have ever seen

šŸ‘

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Not me
Not at work
Not out shopping
Not getting a haircut
No RSV, No COVID, No Pertussis, No HMPV, No Influenza
Also applies to my wife, my daughters
Just call it ā€˜luckā€™ I guess
šŸ˜· + Enovid + CPC mouthwash

Not me Not at work Not out shopping Not getting a haircut No RSV, No COVID, No Pertussis, No HMPV, No Influenza Also applies to my wife, my daughters Just call it ā€˜luckā€™ I guess šŸ˜· + Enovid + CPC mouthwash #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
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mRNA vaccine šŸ’‰

Some people would never had one again?

I mean whatā€™s the benefit outside Covid?

Pancreatic cancer. Thatā€™s what.

Oh that deadly vastly incurable cancer?

Yeah that one

ā€œAt 18-month median follow-up, patients with vaccine-expanded T cells (responders) had aā€¦

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Accuses General Practice of an 8 Billion ā€˜Rortā€™ which was shown by the actual health minister to be wrong

amp.abc.net.au/article/101537ā€¦

Then accuses anaesthetists of serious fraud and waste to the tune of $640 million

amp.abc.net.au/article/103675ā€¦

Coincidentally running a Medicareā€¦

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Well hereā€™s me trying to raise the issue of

The amount of people I am seeing who are knackered/fatigued or gone from doing lots of excercise to minimal is growing each week.

More iron deficiency this week
More iron infusions
More people who are COVID +ve as itā€¦

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ā€œWe will just spend it on anything but GPsā€

This is it.

So again can anyone tell me why there is a state and federal anti-GP sentiment.

Knowingly funding a less qualified, hugely expensive attempt has no other answer.

ā€œThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.ā€ā€¦

ā€œWe will just spend it on anything but GPsā€ This is it. So again can anyone tell me why there is a state and federal anti-GP sentiment. Knowingly funding a less qualified, hugely expensive attempt has no other answer. ā€œThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.ā€ā€¦
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Can it get even more insane in expenditure.

Uh huh.

So last year the state stumped up $75 million for a state operation centre and a WA Virtual Emergency Department (WAVED)

Part of WAVED role is paid consults to aged care residents in Perth only.

Rurally the same state wonā€™tā€¦

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Oh dear, political own goal.

58 Medicare Urgent Care Centres
Funded at 1 million per year plus $400000 infrastructure grant.

Plus whatever the Medicare item number is.

Letā€™s call itā€™s a bulk billed 23 (does the triple BB incentive apply?)

$81 200 000 in first year inā€¦

Oh dear, political own goal. 58 Medicare Urgent Care Centres Funded at 1 million per year plus $400000 infrastructure grant. Plus whatever the Medicare item number is. Letā€™s call itā€™s a bulk billed 23 (does the triple BB incentive apply?) $81 200 000 in first year inā€¦
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Brace for another early flu season

Shock horror surprise nil

Abrysvo (RSV) recommended 24-36 weeks gestation and >60.

Enquiries nil.

So posts about not vaccinating, not using sunscreen, eat as much fat as possible and essentially ignoring every ounce of medical advice areā€¦

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This post below by someone totally unqualified to even make this comment

What is going on with X?

The harm to people being peddled on this platform is unreal.

Literally I am removing skin cancers - SCC/BCC and Melanomas from people from a time and era when there was NOā€¦

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Learned something today

Some chap from South Australia believes itā€™s not all about the money and we should be available for free.

What do you think?

Before you answer, think about the following.

What other specialist is expected to be available 24x7?

For free.

Then whyā€¦

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Meanwhile GPs are blamed for private charging and our gaps due to the abysmal rebate

However the state is happy to pay nearly 8.9 times MORE for you to be seen by a nurse than a doctor.

More often than not to be given trivial treatment and then told to follow up with an actualā€¦

Meanwhile GPs are blamed for private charging and our gaps due to the abysmal rebate However the state is happy to pay nearly 8.9 times MORE for you to be seen by a nurse than a doctor. More often than not to be given trivial treatment and then told to follow up with an actualā€¦
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Well spent the week working out the numbers at ā€˜record level data levelā€™ from our last wave November - March.

So. Here you go:

73 patients with low ferritin out of a town of 423 people.

14% were male
86% were female

The average age was 52

The average ferritin was 39

21ā€¦

Well spent the week working out the numbers at ā€˜record level data levelā€™ from our last wave November - March. So. Here you go: 73 patients with low ferritin out of a town of 423 people. 14% were male 86% were female The average age was 52 The average ferritin was 39 21ā€¦
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Nothing like reading X to see lay people speaking with assumed authority.

Meanwhile, we have Covid circulating and I am trying to make sense of the sheer number of patients with iron deficiency I am seeing.

Thus far over 80 patients and counting from a population of just 400ā€¦

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Riddle me this Mark Butler MP and Anthony Albanese Australian Labor

If you keep letting non-doctors cut away at General Practice, untrained, unqualified then like this weekend who is going to do the complex hard stuff?

Especially rural and remote.

You see I am doing Palliative Careā€¦

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