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A hard hitting but incredibly important piece by @sethina.bsky.social in the @bmj.com Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in the UK has work to do to ensure PoC (esp Black Drs) have an equal shot at specialty recruitment and career progression #emimcc www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

We need to face uncomfortable truths about diversity in our medical workforce - my thoughts for @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This little chap - Scruffy - refused to leave the London Hospital ward where his master was. On the reverse it says ' Nurses have tried to make him go home...Every time the door opens he peeps in to see how his master is, but is not allowed inside the ward" #LoveYourPetDay

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

There's an article making the rounds about how men "just want to be heroes". And in response, I was asked to bring my God & Guns thread, about what it means to protect your family, over from the other place. So I did:

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

As ever @katemanne.bsky.social nails it It’s about power, not softening of image open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

From the archive for #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience. Here's to the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to study medicine at a UK university: Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Mary Anderson, Emily Bovell & Sophia Jex-Blake. Link in replies. Image c. The Scotsman 🙏

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Great to have an another tool in the pocket for assessing fluid responsiveness in patients ventilated with low Vt, although… Currently I just whack the Vt up to 9mls/kg, measure PPV then change them back. Seems a lot less faff 🫤 #EMIMCC ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Only 18% of faculty in this study were STEM but isn’t it interesting that female profs were expected to be more nurturing and prepared to acquiesce to grade increases/extensions than male profs - and were given poorer feedback if they weren’t? idp.springer.com/authorize?re...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.

submitted 20 days ago • 332 comments

Worst week for science EVER. Sunday: ASM scrubs DEI mentions from website. Tue: NASA scrubs DEI from website; ICE arrests a student on campus; NSF plans to cut staff; USAID halted. Wed: HHMI kills diversity program; NIH trashes applications for diversity F grants. Fri: NIH cuts indirects.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Love;y thread with take-home top tips Honestly, learn lung US. It is such a useful skill in the assessment of the critically ill!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Transphobia melts the brain

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

Sliced finger on ampoule of rocuronium yesterday, it still really really hurts 😭😭😭😭

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Solidarity with Dr Upton, who has had to face persistent misgendering in this tribunal process. And who is surprised at the political affiliation of Ms Peggie? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

"Woman" as a signifier for the right must be simultaneously so rooted in "objective biology" that it must be protected from trans women and from any gender fluidity, and yet it is also such a dangerous concept that we cannot even say it.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine a judge saying a racist could use the n-slur or an anti-semite the k-slur "as long as it was not done 'offensively' or 'gratuitously'." Our judiciary is increasingly a source of shame.

submitted 22 days ago • 40 comments

I hear outlets such as GBNews are trying to undermine initiatives like the Rainbow NHS Badge Progress can be reversed in a minute if we aren’t vigilant These initiatives are a visible representation of support for people who continue to have negative experiences within healthcare 👏🏼

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Petition for manufacturers to colour code equipment cables - blue for sats probe, green for ECG, red for art line etc Would make detangling cables SO much easier

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

The elusive volume status has got to be one of the most ubiquitous questions in medicine - and the most widely misunderstood 😕 It's my favourite soapbox 🎙️ - so much so, that I've made a 20-min video highlighting the 5 key rules of volume status Video link ⬇️, but here's the TLDR: 🧵 #emimcc

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

The FDA has scrubbed from its website guidance on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men/women and racial/ethnic minorities. these aren't symbolic issues. Drugs affect men/men, people with different genetic backgrounds differently. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medic...

submitted 32 days ago • 131 comments

Confession: I LOVE hyponatremia 🤓 (I know, I know. What can I say, I'm a true internist!) HypoNa is often feared, maligned, and misunderstood - but I promise it doesn't have to be scary! Here are my top 10 hyponatremia tips and tricks - a 🧵 #emimcc

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

Re assessment of hyponatraemia: I love this as a concept - I just have never worked out how people can look at someone and confidently determine their volume status

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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

submitted 33 days ago • 414 comments

Hello BlueSky! I am Lara, anaesthetist and neurointensivist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford UK. I am also a researcher in neurocritical care at the Uni of Oxford. Finally, I am a council member of @naccsuk.bsky.social and UK national representative at #ESICM Talk soon!!

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Huzzah! NACCS is now on BlueSky! Follow us now by searching our handle: naccsuk.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing you there!! #medtwitter #neurocriticalcare #neuroanaesthesia #neuroanesthesiology

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Ask and we shall answer! METRONIDAZOLE DOSING IS A NIGHTMARE AND MAKES NO SENSE Thread🪡 #IDSky

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

If you went to uni: 1. what was your career goal when you started? - doctor 2. your initial study area? - medicine 3. if you changed areas, what did you change to? - I did not 4. what do you do now? - doctor

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

If a picture’s worth 1000 words then this cine loop’s a damn novella dedicated to the pathogenesis of hepatic hydrothorax 😍 #EMIMCC #pocus

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

submitted 34 days ago • 321 comments

Exciting to see your heroes in 18th century medical records. None other than David Bowie admitted here to the Edinburgh charity dispensary for medical relief in 1777

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Do you know the pathophysiology of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS)? #AnSky #ICUSky #MedSky #criticalcare https://buff.ly/4jnHoXE

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

WOW! You've got to watch all of this. A priest just confronted Trump's fascism to his face. She's so incredibly brave.

submitted 35 days ago • 369 comments

A particularly classic bit of Johnson journalism in that Trump’s hand didn’t touch the Bible

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 36 days ago • 548 comments

📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK). Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

Hey @royalsociety.org Still going to give him a free pass?

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

If a man can’t give a Nazi salute at a party for a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender, then what kind of sick world are we living in, I ask you.

submitted 36 days ago • 72 comments