Many congratulations to our colleague Prof Ewen Harrison who was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours list for his data science work supporting government committees during the COVID 19 pandemic. What a star🌟 Clinical Surgery Edinburgh Surgery Online Edinburgh Surgical Sabermetric Group Surgical Informatics The Usher Institute

Congratulations Prof Ewen Harrison! Meal do naidheachd, ollaimh! Very well deserved. Tha thu àiridh air.

Chan urrainn sinn #albaceilidh chluinntinn. Saoil carson?

1/IMPORTANT - If you are a doctor we need YOUR Help please! (Free tool) PLEASE take a few mintues to to respond to the DHSC consultation on pensions taxation More info here - especially on the crucial government ommision to fix inflation issues with #FixNegativePIAs See👇 & RT

Maree Todd, the Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport, visited the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for a tour of the Renal Transplant and Vascular Access unit.

She met staff, learned about the great work being done on the unit, and heard the story of one kidney transplant patient now on the road to recovery. Ms Todd, second left, is pictured with unit staff, from left, Julie Glen, Julie Kennedy, Dr Scott Morris, Jill Park, Mr John Asher

An important report, and strategic planning of future resources needed will be vital. Early treatments to avert end stage kidney failure important but good low clearance planning vital to maximise chances of transplant and right dialysis access before kidneys fail fully.

Out today! We pre-train a health system language model, NYUTron, and evaluated it on diverse prediction tasks, including 30-day all-cause readmission, in-hospital mortality, comorbidity index, LOS, and insurance denial. nature.com/articles/s4158…

David Oliver: Why shouldn’t doctors defend our distinct professional identity? bmj.com/content/382/bm…

Congratulations Stephen O'Neill and colleagues! 👏🏻👏🏻

Polly like other Black donors are members of the Black Living Donor Choir, they are using their donor stories to talk about living donation in the Black Community. Polly Todd💙 Kidney Care UK @kidneycareuk.bsky.social Kidney Research UK Frank Dor THE MIRANDA BRAWN DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION Danny Sebastian The UK Kidney Association

“Black African surgeon is providing expert care to White patients in the United Kingdom, photojournalism”. White saviour tropes are perpetuated in AI image generators. Here is what DALL-E generated for me with this prompt. Similar to issues reported here:

Zotero is the best citation and reference management app. It's totally free. But many folks don't know how to use it. Here's a tutorial on how to automate your citations and references with Zotero:

Understanding P-Values is essential for improving regression models. In 2 minutes, learn what took me 2 years to figure out. 1. The p-value: A p-value, in statistics, is a measure used to assess the strength of the evidence against a null hypothesis. 2. Null Hypothesis (H0):

🔥🔥Hot off the press Nature Communications 👇👇 Virtual Biopsy System !

The operating room is a hostile environment for surgeons. 38% of surgeons are in pain. 87% if using an endoscope. A primer on surgical ergonomics to save you suffering 🧵

Interesting study and relevant when politicians planning reforms to NHS ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-2…

‘1 in 3,000’ has been the mantra for too long. Time for more accurate data ⬇️. Thanks to Allan Massie et al - reassuring for clinicians, and more importantly, potential LDs. @BurnappLisa NHS Blood+Transplant Sanjay Sinha Jonny Olsburgh Tim Brown @KessarisN Rachel Hilton BTS

We had a wonderful time in Malawi 🇲🇼 creating fistulas. 21 procedures in 4 days. AVF created for >25% of dialysis population at KCH. Here’s to a long and productive future collaboration

1/9 🤔 Why doesn't an elevated BUN lead to extreme thirst? If increased serum osmolarity compels us to seek water, uremia should be a significant driver of this craving. And yet, it isn't. Let's examine why.