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It's been shown that doctors were unsafely replaced on medical rotas by PAs on 109 occasions, across 11 trusts over 3 months. This appalling patient safety scandal must end. Read our letter to NHS England. And our response to Channel 4 News revelations: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

“Chronic pain remains a significant public health hazard, experienced by 20% of U.S. adults”. Maybe this should be under heading “chronic pain public health crisis” & not “overdose epidemic”. Now well-established that medical prescriptions have little to do with OD deaths.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

This opinion piece very disturbing. Not only the attempt to redefine OUD (already a sprawling dx) to include CPPs, it also opens door to question normal valid rxing of opioids as “causing” OUD thus providing more ammunition for litigation & arresting drs for practice of medicine.

⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ pls stop calling RFK Jr a “vaccine sceptic” which suggests there is scientific controversy. He is an anti-vaccine zealot who has recently realised he can adapt his language to suck in the undereducated & pseudo-legitimise misinformation. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

When NICE dev chronic pain gls I commented that having the team headed by a psychiatrist & a famously anti-pain med dr was like putting a blatant anti-vaxxer in charge of childhood immunisation programme. NICE gls turned out as expected & now the US is about to test my theory 🙄

Not disruptors with deep pockets - greedy men gifted unimaginable resources (to most people) by a skewed economic system, who use their money to garner as much power for themselves as possible. The challenge of disruptors with deep pockets bbc.com/news/articles/…

Another “secondary benefit” people with disabilities &long term medical conditions enjoy… In same way life is paradoxically more expensive for the poor, life is made harder than needs to be for disabled. My disability admin at 27 feels like full-time job bbc.com/news/articles/…

If someone posted “I’m 56 years old and… I don’t wear glasses/don’t use a hearing aid/still have my hair… What about you?” do you think thousands would respond? Or maybe think “So what? Lucky you!” and scroll on by?

In this world of magic money trees, conducting the umpteenth expensive study to prove what we ALREADY know is a MUCH better use of resources than, you know, funding research into stuff we DON’T KNOW YET, like new treatments for dementia, cancer, autoimmune diseases ETC. Right?

You’ve got to be a special kind of tragic to be jealous of disabled people for having things that enable them to try and live the best life they can. Trust me, we’d gladly swap our disabilities etc… for a body that functions….

Here we go again. Hot on heels of idea that pain patients have OUD even if they take pain relief as prescribed, now apparently ADHD patients have PSUD even if taking stimulants as prescribed. Note same dx even when misuse = taking stimulants *not rxd*. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

In 1945, six women pulled off a computing miracle. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: 🧵

The amazing team from UK - National amyloidosis centre Royal Free London presenting annual clinical audit - over 1300 new amyloidosis patients seen last year with patient satisfaction over 97% highly positive - a beacon for rare diseases. A huge thanks to the whole team for an

This topic, again. When will we stop doing this to people? Served with a hefty dose of misdirection. Suicide risk after abrupt discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy: an observational cohort study. This study showed that there are massive risks if harm when tapering

Andrea Anderson This has been done, not to further medical understanding but simply so the conclusion sentence can be quoted and cited by anti opioid researchers in the future, thus cementing the idea of opioid ===harm into the general medical consciousness.

Equations for Calculating MME’s In this critically-important study on the topic of MME (Morphine Milligram Equivalents) we learn that “there is proof that daily MME is not a standardized clinical metric.” This study asks this critical question: “WHY has this not been detected

You are joking, right? Standing joke that people could play “the last Labour government” bingo with Conservative politicians/pundits from 2010 right up until election result was announced last year. I think we can let Labour off that one for now. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

⚠️ Warning: rant alert ⚠️ 1/10 National Association of Boards of Pharmacy claims “we’re all one patient population”yet their PhARM-OUD Guidance (nabp.pharmacy/wp-content/upl…) carves bupe out of every barrier that still traps legacy pain patients. Let’s go👇

“Medicine doesn’t treat the root cause, they just treat symptoms.” —Every wellness grifter Marty Makary, RFK Jr & MAHA allies claim they’re going to “fix” American health by focusing on “root cause medicine.” Reality? They’re using the FDA to spread wellness propaganda. 1/