RACS signed the panel pledge in 2017; #manels are no longer seen at our events. Convenors will literally send the provisional program back to you and tell you to improve it. I hope, in time, all surgical organisations will follow suit. #DiversityAndInclusion #ILookLikeASurgeon🤗

Excited to meet fantastic #endourologist colleagues at #DUST23 in Napa Valley! Let's inspire, educate, and shape the future of Endourology! See you soon! 🙌 #DUST23 #EndourologyMeeting #Innovation  buff.ly/38Za8De

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Passport worker - We're gonna need the baby to sit on the chair for the photo. Dad - She won't let me put her down. Passport worker - You're gonna need to figure something out if you want a passport picture. Dad - I got an idea...

Yo! Scott Eggener and I are moderating a session on transplant and urologic cancers at #SUO23 looking for Society of Urologic Oncology and transplant trained people? dynamic voices? crazy thoughts? the session will be great b/c your input will shape it! reply to this message or send a DM

Anika Wells MP Jackie Hansard CommBank Matildas Is it only boys who are proud when men’s teams succeed? I would think that *all* kids regardless of gender will be very proud today.

Panel discussion on all things #laser at #Dust23 #dustcme. Ho:YAG hi/low power, TFL, Thu:YAG. We STILL don’t quite know how lasers really work and best settings for each! 🤯 Michael Lipkin Karen Stern MD Ioannis Goumas Urologia Khurshid Ghani

“Laser the ureter until you can see the retroperitoneum in the entire length of the stricture” (1J 10Hz) Mantu Gupta, M.D. talking about ureteric stricture mgmt at #DUST23 DUST Symposium. Takes courage!

First ever Holmium YAG laser photo and study - the beginning of an era of effective stone treatment. The classic “0.8J 10Hz” setting started by a random chance. Talk on history of lasers by John Denstedt at #DUST23 DUST Symposium

Great talk on combining surgery and parenting by Prof Nicole Miller at #DUST23 DUST Symposium Know what matters, know when to say no, have supportive department, prioritize things that are important to you.

All in favor of Abby Wambach starting a housework tutorial series say aye.

So disappointed I’m away when the amazing Rhea Liang and Simon Fleming 🛠 are BOTH coming to my city to do a seminar 😭. If you’re in Auckland 04 Nov you absolutely need to go, what an incredible event! #OperatewithRespect #OWR

I love this. Systematically excluded

Meanwhile, back at the beeb… 3 leaders in the NHS; 2 frontline clinicians and one no longer practicing clinical medicine. Guess which one gets Dr in their title? 🤔 Of course it’s just another honest mistake… Sort it out BBC News (UK) Miss Shamim Umarji FRCS St George's NHS FT deserve better

Last night I snuggled with my baby and put her to sleep, this morning I got to see her a bit after she woke up and play with her giggly self all morning. In between, I did an infant liver transplant. To think I was warned that transplant wouldn’t be a good lifestyle for a mom…

when i ask no pets when attending asks cat, dog, and 4 parrots - intern, rupi kaur

#AUA24 Thomas Chi study of ureteroscopic suction device with high SFR. Did half the talk without slides, like a true legend he is!

It's not long ago that the RACSurgeons Women in Surgery breakfast fit into a tutorial room- and now it's a ballroom 🤗. But Pecky De Silva, Chair of the WiS section, shows data that a heavy gender imbalance persists in every specialty. Much more to do💪 #ILookLikeASurgeon #RACS24

Beyond Diversity and Inclusion framework - really thought provoking talk by Rhea Liang at #RACS24