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GPwSI Cancer and Palliative Medicine, GP, Medical Examiner, Course Director for Red Whale’s Cancer Course. Passionate about Primary Care. I love being a GP but sometimes it doesn’t love me back! All views are of course my own!
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Pre-dates the statutory roll-out of the #MedicalExaminers service: TAVI mortality rate at the time (2020) was three times higher than the UK average www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Big news for primary care: The Lancet Primary Care is launching! As a GP and researcher, I’m excited to see our field get this kind of spotlight 💪 🎯 A new opportunity to promote excellent research in primary care. #primarycare #clinicalresearch #generalpractice #physiotherapy Link for webinar ⬇️

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Gonna start imposing wild tariffs on all the specialists that come to the emergency dept. 20% for the surgeons, 10% for the medics, 50% for any ologist who thinks I’m their FY1. MAKE A&E GREAT AGAIN.

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Likewise in 1’ care. Sometimes what’s available changes day to day such that we are rewriting scripts which we have only just rewritten the day before!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

submitted 77 days ago • 307 comments

While this is a very small study, and it is early days, this study published in Nature offers some positive news. Given the poor prognosis of pancreatic cancer and how tough it is to diagnose in the wild, positive findings like this are much needed.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Really good summary of the process, with timings importantly.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

This is disappointing reporting, *again* A referral to the coroner will, of necessity, delay families. Nothing can move forward until their investigations conclude The medical examiner service is not involved in that delay and yet here we are *again* in the firing line www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

So it turns out that mini-palldoc’s perfect birthday is a Stalinist soviet themed day with era appropriate national anthem and posters. Am equal parts proud, enthralled, and nervous!

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

I wish more people would realize that struggling with poverty and homelessness is not a moral failure. So many people look down on them for their struggles without realizing they're just one bad unforseen circumstance away from the same thing happening to them www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

submitted 153 days ago • 217 comments

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submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

Can I just take the opportunity to sing the praises of district nurses. Cheerful, efficient, caring. They do a wonderful job. I don't know how we'd have coped without them.

submitted 174 days ago • 2 comments

It's always worth occasionally going into town on a Friday or Saturday night to remind yourself why you no longer go into town on a Friday or Saturday night. #Humbug

submitted 175 days ago • 1 comment

Silent Night!

submitted 182 days ago • 234 comments

It's that time year @cosmicrami.com

submitted 182 days ago • 10 comments

Oh I like this… 🌲

submitted 186 days ago • 5 comments

And Mr Tickle is Herr Killekille in Germany. Which is exactly what his victims in the book should've done to him when he got too handsy.

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments

as a Big Nerd I have to tell you I went to Mendel’s abbey to look at his peas but the most notable part is actually the little hats he made for his microscopes

submitted 236 days ago • 49 comments

What the what?? How have I not seen this in a movie yet? Surely someone has done this?! #screenwriters

submitted 203 days ago • 4 comments

Someone needs to infect him with a kinder, more benevolent brain worm to neutralize the evil, science-denying brain worm.

submitted 203 days ago • 44 comments

I have just learned there is a McIsaac modification of the Centor score as latter originally validated in over-15yos. www.inanutshell.ch/en/digital-d...

submitted 207 days ago • 1 comment

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦.

submitted 207 days ago • 26 comments

NEW: Coroners have issued 36 warnings this year over poor NHS patient information sharing, with some patients dying because clinicians couldn’t access important details about their needs. By me, for the Observer www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 209 days ago • 7 comments

Morning all. I like what you have done with the place! Exciting to see so many of my #medsky colleagues over here,like me, slowly emerging blinking into the sunlight.

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments