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Doctor. Former chemist ⚗🧪 & process safety nerd. Northerner. Humanist. Dabbler in languages. History buff. Gamer. Geek. Death positive. 🧀 &🥂 She/her #MedSky
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1/ Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the legitimate President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine. And only Ukraine will decide when and how to hold elections and whether or not to re-elect Zelenskyy. All other countries can either respectfully accept this or go fuck yourselves. #UkrainianView

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Your friendly reminder, that secondary to sanitation, vaccines remain perhaps the single most effect health intervention developed by humans. What the US is currently doing is closing in on flat earth levels of anti-scientific sentiment.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We have published new #Norovirus data today showing cases are 117% above the 5-season average. Lots of people are getting sick with the winter vomiting bug. 📈 Learn about managing the virus in our blog post 👀 ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/17/n... Full report here 👇 www.gov.uk/government/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently | Marina Hyde

submitted 40 days ago • 17 comments

history friends, Walsall Leather Museum is at risk. Being the granddaughter of a Walsall leather worker, this breaks my heart. Intangible cultural heritage is hard to define, therefore very easy to destroy. We can’t see another heritage site disappear. Please sign; www.change.org/p/halt-the-p...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Great piece by Paul Offit "When Mr. Kennedy says he wants vaccines to be better studied, what he really seems to be saying is he wants studies that confirm his fixed, immutable, science-resistant beliefs. That’s not skepticism."🧪⚕️

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

Some days are so miserable you just need syrup sponge and custard for tea...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Doctors are in the business of supporting vulnerable people. As Virchow said: "The physician is the natural attorney of the poor." Anyone who believes healthcare can ever be completely apolitical, or separate from the issues of the day, is kidding themselves. #WSM2025

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Context is key to understanding the pressures in the NHS 111 have 69200 calls a day A&E 72000 attendances Ambulance incidents 25000 GP practices have 1.4million consultations & several million more calls GP practices deal with 90% of demand & 20% more than 2019 @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

She’s done it! She’s beaten the previous winter record, held by James Gibson, and has become the first woman to complete the continuous winter Wainwrights challenge and the first ever to do it in mid winter. Absolutely outstanding achievement by Carol Morgan 💪🏻

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

There is absolutely only one reason to believe that your unscientific pet project of turning yourself into a supplement-selling fitness influencer is more valuable than medical research: narcissism. Why the world’s media consistently and repeatedly falls for this comical nonsense is the real mystery

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

GPs are often blamed for the problems of the NHS Reality is somewhat different, since 2019 GPs have been providing 5million MORE appts per month (31million) with 20% less £/patient For context A&E has 2.2m attendances ⬆️200k Out-Patients 8.7m Ambulance calls 750k (no change) #Medsky #NHS

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Definitely a 2. I've had the same "no, antibiotics won't help your viral infection, it'll just take time" conversation soooo many times today that I'm frazzled

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Graphs like this are helpful because public policymakers, government health depts, the treasury etc routinely try to gaslight UK healthcare professionals into believing that asking for more beds/more capacity is somehow a form of ungrateful special pleading Then you look at the graph again

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases - In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5 - TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe - smallpox killed 80% of infected children theconversation.com/infectious-d...

submitted 59 days ago • 31 comments

Thanks to whoever went to the trouble of morphing me into a dromedary so I could finally fulfill my potential as "Mar🐫". 🙏 ❤️ 👍

submitted 60 days ago • 1248 comments