This is such an interesting thread about Edinburgh and the AIDS epidemic. And much more too.

Unexpected outcome of having a baby is mastering making omelettes. I was rubbish before but look at this beauty 😊

Great new book on the benefits of #exercise for persons with #Parkinson, written by three absolute experts in the field. Happy to have contributed the foreword for this book. Very much worth reading!

I started chemo 5 years ago today. There is never a good time but Christmas cancer is particularly rough for lots of reasons and my heart goes out to anyone navigating it this year ❤️

Shout out to the fully qualified junior doctor, who was on call for Elderly Medicine yesterday at the Bradford Royal Infirmary Despite it being incredibly busy he took my call to admit an elderly gentleman with care and compassion and arranged a bed

Handy this arrived as I plan the days festive baking 👏 This might be my favourite paper ever

A simple nudge such as placing a chair at a patient’s bedside can increase a physician’s likelihood to sit by 20-fold, finds study, which also improves patients’ perceptions of their physician 👍🏽 Study includes a #VisualAbstract #BMJChristmas bmj.com/content/383/bm…

When you’re a sewist and the #soundofmusic is on and you have a sudden craving to make your baby a pair of lederhosen out of whatever you can get your hands on 😂🪡🧵📍

Merry Christmas, especially to anyone unwell in hospital, and anyone working to look after them ❤️🎄🎅

"Older people have always worked, contributed to their families and helped out the wider community. In other words, history teaches us that older people have so much to offer." bgs.org.uk/blog/history-r…

I’m not saying having covid (at last) over our babies first Christmas wasn’t horrible but on the other hand I dropped an entire pot of garam masala on the floor and the kitchen smells the same to me so…. Silver linings?

Really well written, clear and fair response 👏

Lovely day out at the The Great Tapestry of Scotland - with family members with an age span of 0-88! Looking forward to the panel going up in the interchange - we all put a stitch in it in November too, though the baby needed a bit of help

Great to see The Mainstreet Trading Company featured - so lovely and the mums Bookclub has been a tonic on maternity leave

Fab time this week at Capital Theatres: Festival, King’s & Studio relaxed ballet performance - it was wonderful seeing all ages enjoying the show, the staff were so helpful and the dancing was of course superb Me and sprog will be back 😊

It’s landed! Delighted to contribute and in awe of the effort put into this from Rose Penfold and others

This was a wonderful column

This is such a huge loss. I loved working on blogs with the EC team - they are truly wonderful. I learned so much and wish them every success at their next endeavours.

Are you a bookworm who works in healthcare? This is a fantastic podcast, do consider it!

Abi Rimmer Depends on the doctor! Being employed by an NHS organisation is different to being a self employed contractor. Interesting topic.