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drgrinzi.bsky.social
Aussie General Practitioner & Medical Educator Drug & Alcohol/Addiction Med. #gpdu #FOAMed Views my own. Tweets not medical advice #justagp www.royalparkmedical.com.au
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"I am so sorry that we have failed this little sweetheart: not just doctors, but all of us." Yep

Wild seeing so many supposed Christians enraged to see a female Bishop stand up for the teachings of Christianity of compassion, mercy, standing with the downtrodden & welcoming the stranger. Those angry need to take a good hard look at themselves & ask what faith do you have?

The first female President of the US!

They banned abortion & TikTok before assault weapons… THEY BANNED ABORTION & TIKTOK BEFORE ASSAULT WEAPONS.

There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…

The alternative medicine industry has flipped the meaning of placebos. Don’t be fooled. My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Welp

This is such an important paper .....along with @timsenior.bsky.social's eloquent use of modern lexicon

Seconded. All in favor?

I delusionally thought this was satire.

Welcome to 🦋 @drkatmclean.bsky.social. We're getting the #GPDU band back together.

Are GPs superheroes? Not really. An explainer: youtu.be/vAUZH7euNjA

Recent polling data shows that 75% of Americans now see addiction as a health issue, not a criminal justice issue. But our laws haven't evolved to reflect that, even as our leadership claim to agree. My latest for @theguardian.com. 🧵 🧪 #medsky #drugsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

This is really interesting, but completely focussed on the individual. No mention of food security, employment, housing, poverty. "Lifestyle therapy" can surely only work where you have favourable social determinants of health.

This. So full of love. Wonderful collaboration.

www.abc.net.au/news/health/... Life saving Naloxone. A new program of over the counter treatments saving lives.

Do you incorporate some cycling into your routine? Exercise as medicine. www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/what...

At a conference in London with several hundred people, most critical care doctors. Coughing. Every session. Almost non-stop. The only mask I have seen is on my own face. I don’t get why people feel ok about this given the mountains of evidence accumulating around viral long term sequelae.

Reminder that our opinion on masks aren’t in a vacuum Anti-maskers have made oncology clinics and public spaces *more* hostile to mask wearers than they were before Covid began It’s extra important we loudly promote masking to protect cancer patients www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/features/lac...

The importance of having naloxone available where and when it is needed. The importance of recognising signs of overdose. www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

December - the month to buy and start filling in your 2025 planners/diaries. Here's something to kick off the 'save the dating': The 2025 International Medicine in Addiction ( #IMiA2025 ) website is now active imia2025.com.au Aug 29-31 Sydney Australia. Lock it in!

Great article by A/Prof Louise Stone exploring the concepts of trust and social contracts in Australia's primary care space. Worth a read. insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/47/redi...

Oh, so this is how #AusPol works? We seemingly have to wait for a politician's partner to worry about gambling and alcohol advertising exposure to children, before it becomes a 'real' concern. Got it. 🙄😥 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This is educational and adorable! #GPsky #medsky

Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?

So much work done by GP practices is unseen The media focus purely on appointments - 30 million a month & up 5 million since 2019 Imagine if appts are up 20% what is going on behind the scenes All this with 20% £/patient since 2016 in real terms cuts #MedSky #RCGP #GeneralPractice #NHS #TeamGP

Are you like me and have a college student home for break? Were you also repeatedly reminding them to get their flu/covid vaccines? Now’s a great time- 20 minutes from start to finish making an appointment, driving to the pharmacy, getting the shots, post vaccine coffee incentive in hand.

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

this essay is full of actual research showing trans women pose no threat to cis women in restrooms & other sex-segregated spaces. if you encounter any cis ppl discussing/debating the Mace/McBride/congressional restroom fuckery, pls share this link with them: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...