Dr Dave Triska
@davetriska.bsky.social
GP Partner 🧑⚕️ | Former RAMC Officer 🇦🇲 | ND 🧠 | Consultant to tortus_AI
📝 The Drag We call it rebirth. A new person, a fresh start. But what if nobody asked for the new person? And what if the drag has no top, no badge, no end? A dusty bike. A mouldy tent. A wet hillside, twenty years ago. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
The Drag
The wall hook
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📒The Lull What if hope wasn't the thing that kept you safe? What if hope was the thing that left the door open for the shadow to walk back in? A chair. A tremor. Damage with no marks. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
The Lull
I am sat in a chair, alone.
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📝 The Bunker In month six in Kandahar we stopped flinching at incoming rounds. In a consulting room in February we stopped flinching at sixty-four week waits. The threshold moved. Nobody agreed to move it. 👇👇👇👇 davetriska.substack.com/p/the-bunker...
Fantastic experience at the Charlie and The Chocolate Factory afternoon tea. One Aldwych in London.
Big steps again with Rose 🌹 the rescue eating for the first time with her sister Molly
📒I cried in a treatment room recently. Nothing bad was happening. That was the thing. New piece. The Visitor's Chair. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
📝 The Fog What if the delusion wasn’t that you were failing? What if it was believing you were ever at the wheel? One drive home. One windscreen clearing. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
6 months after we rescued her, Rose 🌹 finally chose to eat inside with Mrs T there - never been with us like that before. Bittersweet for me after months of inching her bowl millimeters closer to the house, but awesome. She keeps coming back and staring at the door - badly wants to be inside🥹
🧵A Monday morning in general practice. One small rural GP surgery in Surrey. Real numbers from a real working day. Here's what happened between 07:30 and noon.
A little bit of sibling rivalry today (the good kind). Rose is figuring out if it’s worth venturing from her den to compete with our tiny pug for some liver treats. Getting better by the day
There’s a meditation program on Meta called Tripp which is absolutely lovely. Just putting yourself somewhere serene and calm is quite wonderful.
📝 The Heaviness You carry it for long enough and you forget you’re leaning. You call it love. You call it coping. You don’t know what you look like underneath. One hallway. Twenty heartbeats. The moment the weight came off. 👇👇👇 👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
Yesterday the Green Party WON in Margate. Today I campaigned with teams in Hackney, Southwark, Lewisham and Newham - ready to do it too! All so fired up and ready to win on May 7th. Let's go! 💚🚀 Join.greenparty.org.uk (📸 - Aldoshoots)
What nobody sees In the old model - the one I trained in, the one they dismantled - these threads would have sat in the same building. The man’s script, the son’s behaviour, the wife’s exhaustion You’d have pulled the threads. I don’t have threads. I have encounters A must read
Dr Dave Triska@davetriska.bsky.social · 6mo ago📝 The Transaction Who will hold the threads of a community in 5 years? A companion piece to What You Can’t Measure (link below, read first) 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
This is very good. I’ve sat with families just like this for about 10 years now - and have really only just started to feel the benefits of that continuity I can now bring to the room. Takes time
Dr Dave Triska@davetriska.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow odd, maybe a Bluesky thing? open.substack.com/pub/davetris... Might be worth pasting into a browser
….’That’s what continuity is. Not a policy word. Not a contractual metric. Not a slide on a presentation about neighbourhood health. It’s the thing that lets you see the whole cloth when everyone else is looking at individual threads.’ Brilliant writing by @davetriska.bsky.social thank you 🙏🏽
Dr Dave Triska@davetriska.bsky.social · 6mo ago📝 What you can’t measure What happens when a GP sees something others couldn’t reach? What if the instrument wasn’t training - it was years of knowing a community? Who measures what matters? One room. One family. One conversation. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetriska…
This is so powerful and reflects what continuity with a GP means. It rings true as both a doctor (not my specialty but we have more depth of input than many specialties which gives some of these moments) but even more so as a patient in a practice with good continuity and compassionate care
Dr Dave Triska@davetriska.bsky.social · 6mo ago📝 What you can’t measure What happens when a GP sees something others couldn’t reach? What if the instrument wasn’t training - it was years of knowing a community? Who measures what matters? One room. One family. One conversation. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetriska…
📝 The Transaction Who will hold the threads of a community in 5 years? A companion piece to What You Can’t Measure (link below, read first) 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...
This is where medicine moves from a mere matter of measurement & data to an art There is nuance, understanding, empathy, knowledge, kindness, compassion, being inquisitive This cannot be replaced & needs to be saved #TeamGP
Dr Dave Triska@davetriska.bsky.social · 6mo ago📝 What you can’t measure What happens when a GP sees something others couldn’t reach? What if the instrument wasn’t training - it was years of knowing a community? Who measures what matters? One room. One family. One conversation. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetriska…
📝 What you can’t measure What happens when a GP sees something others couldn’t reach? What if the instrument wasn’t training - it was years of knowing a community? Who measures what matters? One room. One family. One conversation. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetriska…
‘Not the NHS Again!’ A new podcast series released every Friday. This week ‘The GP employment crisis’ with GPs Dr Sarah Jacques, Dr Neena Jha and Dr Steve Taylor youtu.be/bT08Zoj7F3A?...
The GP employment crisis
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Fab day with fab people - ‘Rise of the Technocrats’ workshop
Great achievement this week - running Space marine on an Amazon Kindle . @dr-shenanigans.bsky.social
Omg my physical copy arrived!! This one might not end up immediately in the recycling www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Dr Shenanigans@dr-shenanigans.bsky.social · 2y agoI know that face.....in this week's @bmj.com Tis I!! If any medical people want to join our mini discord here is the link discord.gg/KzSK8SsV
I know that face.....in this week's @bmj.com Tis I!! If any medical people want to join our mini discord here is the link discord.gg/KzSK8SsV
