We don't deserve dogs

When you order your girlfriend a personalised gin glass and get the option to add a note......

Trying to say “are you purposely walking by me as closely as possible? Have you seen the news? I don’t believe this. Back off! Idiot. How are you so oblivious?!” by staring quietly at someone

Preoperative intravenous iron to treat anaemia before major abdominal surgery (PREVENTT): a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial thelancet.com/journals/lance…

OBGYN obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

New Cochrane review of antiplatelet & anticoagulant agents for secondary prevention of stroke & other thromboembolic events in those with antiphospholipid syndrome comes to no firm conclusions due to limited data. We need more research... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33045766/

The next thing to highlight is the prolonged and in my opinion excessive use of pharmacological thromboprophylaxis antenatally in the uk

This is incredible. The video is only 6 seconds long.

The real reason I became a doctor. Thank you MASH.

I think we should be looking at aspirin vs LMWH for thromboprophylaxis in pregnancy. LEAP is a start but we could go much further, especially in the uk where we recommend heparin to about 1 in 20 women antentally.

PILL-OFF study presented at ISTH by Justine Hugon-Rodin. Prothrombotic markers take months to normalise after stopping COCP but approx 80% of the recovery is within the first 2 weeks. Useful for pre-op advice.

Chipping away at the tyranny of the ‘clotting screen’ and pre procedure INR bit by bit …ea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2…

My morning (pre clinic) coffee looks weirdly Guinness-like. Hmm