Paediatric retrieval Barbie finally made it to my Women’s & Children’s PED office today at SA Health.

When the disaster plan whiteboard you created in 2010 is still on the wall of the hospital at which you fell in love with #PaedsEM as a student in 1997.

So true! A “true mentor is someone who has more imagination about you than you have about yourself” nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

This business model is the only reason VC invests in any medical innovation at all. Revenue stream > access.

“For glocal to work, universities in HICs must start forging equitable, bilateral partnerships with local and regional community-based organisations and build stronger relationships with people with lived experience.” Yes, 💯 times yes. Come and work glocally with me at RFDS.

Things that make me smile

This is incredibly cool!!!

“I can’t think of any scenario where I should do a study in Nigeria with the primary purpose of impressing someone in London" Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá vox.com/23901330/seye-…

We all found ourselves somewhere in this video. Thank you Robert E Kelly for being such a great sport as the world laughed with you for a really long time.

In the vein of “practice what you preach”, after sharing on joined up thinking in paeds retrieval at Team DFTB 23, I‘m now an SA rep for the The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne PIC CPG Committee. Thrilled to bring a rural, remote & prehospital lens to these guidelines. linkedin.com/pulse/joined-u…

Wow - Team DFTB I think your SHAT & FART scores have finally been displaced for top Peds EM acronym.

Word of the day: omnishambles

We all simulate resus in #PedsEM, but how often do you simulate unsuccessful outcomes, with goals of learning when to stop, and communicating with the family? Today I played “mum” in our trauma sim, with the focus being care of the family & team. cureus.com/articles/19685…

“Three weeks of ICU saves 30 mins of difficult conversation” - Alex Psirides The hardest and most important lesson to learn as a critical care doctor, and as a steward of always constrained resources. Every $$ of yes is a no to potentially higher impact $$ elsewhere.

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Come join a remarkable multi-D team of superb humans - and you could find yourself responding to a train on the Nullarbor, the neurosurgical ward in Darwin, or a pub in Mungerannie. We’re in the furthest corner - and we’re looking for you to provide the finest care.

A beautiful and sobering thread, about how sometimes the seeds we plant we will never see grow - but it is worth it all the same.

I feel this one deep in my soul.

Registrar in the ED: Chat GPT, design a gym program for a teen with recurrent patellar dislocation, with references ChatGPT: <spits out balanced and amazing program> Registrar: we are going to be out of jobs soon 🤯

Sharing again as it changed my life at work. Huge fan. s.hbr.org/3iREGL9