"Simply put, it is difficult for people to attend to their health (...) when their basic needs are unmet & they are excluded from the services they need." Powerful new blog post on how the #HostileEnvironment impacts care from Kirit, a nurse in the NHS. medact.org/2021/blogs/acc…

Thank you Punith Kempegowda for your mentorship and providing us research opportunities to present at #SfEBES2021. Thanks Society for Endo for the registration grant so I can attend. Have thoroughly enjoyed the conference so far - have learnt so much & even won a quiz prize. Bring on day 3!💪

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"Unwise but not illegal" is, incidentally, a good description of 80% of activity resulting in an A&E visit on a Saturday night.

If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

Most common triads

At the end of a family meeting, every time I hear patient/family say "Thank you" to me, the very person who gave them the worst news in their life, I think what matters is not the news we deliver, but the way we deliver it.

This person has the right reaction.

#COP28 #ClimateChange is about consumption of very richest people in our global society. 50% of global emissions are emitted by just 10% of the population. 90% of global emissions by 50% of the population. We need climate justice to save our planet. The rich need to step up

Me to the patient I am seeing with the medical student: I have this young, brilliant, future doctor rounding with me today. The medical student:

Awful vile little policy. Imagine the distress and worry to trans women on top of already being unwell and in hospital. Absolutely get in the bin with this bullshit.

ah yes the Health Secretary & Tories improving the NHS by opening 3 'new' medical schools and *checks notes* propagating transphobia, making healthcare spaces less inclusive and underpaying doctors

Hey friends, I've just uploaded a 3-hour evidence-based studying course to YouTube. This was a Skillshare class from a few years back, but I really wanted to make it available to everyone for free. In this class, I'll take you through - 🤫the well-kept secrets of how to

i've seen mediocre people accomplish great things by sticking around and putting in the work

"I would like to ask whether you have communicated your concerns directly to the Prime Minister who, tonight, could similarly write to me and open pay negotiations with both junior doctors and consultants?" Read Philip Banfield 💙's reply to NHS England's letter on patient safety.

It’s okay for medical students & doctors to experience mental illness, *including* psychosis & still recover & practice medicine We *can* be thriving and safe and capable clinicians, despite going through illness It’s important that doctors are as diverse as patients

After 1400 operations and 8 years I completed my neurosurgery training. In some ways I was obsessed. Here are 9 lessons for the driven that I wish I knew when I was obsessively training and neglecting just about everything else:

The maximum anaesthetist capacity and the minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane are both 2

When you are a PGY 7 still making minimum wage and you go out with your college friends who have had successful careers for years