A tribute to one of the giants of Emergency Medicine, Joseph Epstein: bit.ly/3tSS3Bn "His passion and energy for emergency medicine and his care and advocacy for his patients were second to none. Joe will be missed by everyone lucky enough to have come into his orbit."

“How do we make sure we’re measuring merit and not measuring privilege” Rhea Liang 👏 equality ≠ equity, an important reminder in thinking about change and support #USANZ22

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that every ER patient needs a D-dimer.

My incredible friend and one of the most inspiring women in medicine Dr Neela Janakiramanan wrote a book and you absolutely must read it. Im so proud of you Neela! Happy book launch day! The book: booktopia.com.au/the-registrar-…

Home oxygen probably makes little or no difference to 3-year mortality in patients with COPD and moderate hypoxaemia. The data do not support the widespread use of home oxygen in this patient population. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

getting into your advanced training/specialty program vs when your consultants applied to advanced training/specialty program

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Great to be back to F2F conferences. Some of the Royal Melbourne Hospital respiratory team (and a couple of ring-ins) enjoying some fine dining in Barcelona at European Respiratory Conference

Had an wonderful time at #ERS2022 in Barcelona - such a joy after spending most of my advanced training in lockdown/unable to go to face to face conferences. A particular joy to be there with the legend who inspired me to do respiratory/worlds greatest mentor.

Excited to share our paper -‘Overview of recent advancements in asthma management’ via The IMJ Key points 1. No adults with asthma (even mild) should be on PRN SABA without ICS 2. Multiple biologics exist for severe 3. Self-mgmt & action plans onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/im…

Kudos Ash on this fantastic & refreshing update on Asthma Dx and Management Nice to have a clear guide on Phenotyoes (allergic vs eosinophilic) Endotypes (Hi vs Low Th2) and special considerations (biological, Thunderstorm, Covid19) all in one! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/im…

Introducing IMJ On-Air, an IMJ podcast in association with Pomegranate Health on Recent advances in asthma management bit.ly/3QL6SP5 #Pomcast #RACP #IMJOnAir Jeff Szer The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Jacki Small Wiley Clinical Health Daniel Steinfort Ash The Royal Melbourne Hospital

I don't know who made this, but I saw it on here, laughed a lot, saved it, printed it out and stuck it above my computer, and have since spent all my time ignoring its very sensible advice.

Psychological safety: Safety is not the same as comfort. A leader's role is not to protect their team from discomfort. It’s to protect them from harm - and to help motivate them to push through the discomfort and harness it for growth: shorturl.at/RXZ34 By shanesnow

👀it’s out! The llatest 2023 GOLD COPD guidance has been released... 🌟There are BIG changes this year. Here are my first thoughts… but lots to digest: TL/DR: 1. Revised #COPD defn 2. Etiotypes 3. ABCD is out, ABE is in 4. Farewell ICS-LABA 5. New exacerbation defn 1/n👇

I grew up on a farm in a tiny town, getting this email is beyond my wildest childhood dreams.

My last day as a registrar! My first week as an respiratory advanced trainee was the week we admitted our first patient with covid. A tough 3 years- survived mostly thanks to incredible co-regs (pictured) and caffeine. No more sleepless on call every 4th night! I’m done! 🫁

The standard of care for stage IA NSCLC can now officially change. [Ref: CALGB 140503] #lcsm nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks for having me ANZCA! Especially excited to have opportunity to present at a conference in Far north QLD where I grew up!

Great to be part of this article in ⁦⁦The Age⁩, can't find the Twitter handles for writers, but Jackson spent ages researching this and asking pertinent questions theage.com.au/national/why-i… ⁦Peter Mac Cancer Centre⁩ ⁦Peter Mac Research⁩