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Julia Simons

@drjulia_simons

🩺 Slightly less junior doctor now 🌱 Climate changes health
Once ā€˜angry medical student’, forever optimistic things can be better šŸ³ā€šŸŒˆ she/her

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Presidential debate quibbling over golf handicaps... How are these two crumbling men the best leaders American can offer Can the US vote to leave them both to retire on a golf course?

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Once an 'angry' medical student I'm now a very content paediatric surgery registrar in Australia Wes Streeting Australian nurses in Victoria are getting a 28.4% pay rise... Full pay restoration is a minimum and it is possible ✨

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To be honest the pay to me is more reflective of the value that it is put on healthcare Eg. If I were to be paid more in the UK but had to work in a struggling system with poor training opportunities that wouldn't tempt me back (I love the UK, I love my family and friends...)

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Don't fret I continue to pay my student loan from Australia. Given my repayments are 9% of my salary and my salary is higher here I am actually paying more than I would be if I were still in the UK.

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The worst thing you can say to someone who is grieving is nothing The heaviness of grief makes people feel uncomfortable, uncertain about the 'right' thing to say Probably because no words make things better, but no words at all make a grieving person feel even more alone

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We have proof that women like Elle Macpherson who choose not to have mainstream cancer treatments for breast cancer are 6x more likely to die - thanks to Skyler Johnson, MD and co. I’d urge women not to assume that because it’s worked for her so far, it will work for you.

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You can’t even tell in the first headline that Israel is the one bombing Lebanon. The contrast in headlines is unbelievable.

You can’t even tell in the first headline that Israel is the one bombing Lebanon. The contrast in headlines is unbelievable.
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Feel like I live in alternate universe where the last year of Israel’s persistent breaches of international humanitarian law and illegal invasions have not happened, and the 50,000 people killed by Israel simply faded into dust by pure chance.

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Notice not one civilian was killed by Iran's illegal strikes on Israel Also notice Israel's illegal air strikes and ground invasion of Lebanon killing hundreds The narrative seems to be that Iran is causing escalation For a year we've witnessed civilians relentlessly attacked

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Thinking about how trees and land absorbed almost no carbon And that last year was the hottest on record And then going back to thinking about what I'm having for dinner tonight It's hard to respond to the climate crisis with the required urgency...

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Wild that as a self confessed leftie following mainly lefties I get a timeline full of race baiting Islamophobic diatribe on here. This algorithm fail is not accidental but also futile in changing my morals. The loons may be loud but the silent majority haven't lost their minds.