New Case Report online - doi.org/10.1111/dar.... Daniel Dutkiewicz, @drhesterwilson.bsky.social, Thanjira Jiranantakan, Peter Chisholm, Kaniz Fatema, Mark Hardy
Hester Wilson
@drhesterwilson.bsky.social
GP, addiction medicine, FRACGP, FAChAM, singer, mum, wife, speaker, activist and optimist. Interested in better health outcomes for all, end of stigma, EBM, music. All thoughts my own.
🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia National consensus statement on opioid agonist treatment in custodial settings ✍️ Jocelyn Chan, Jon Cook, Michael Curtis, Adrian J Dunlop, Ele Morrison, Suzanne Nielsen, Rebecca J Winter and Thileepan Naren OPEN ACCESS buff.ly/jNuWZVb
Happy International Women's Day. May we challenge the systems that undervalue us, overwork us and keep us "lesser than". And may one day, Medicare pay me as much as the taciturn man-doc in the room next door. #genderpaygap #medicare #medsky #slowmedicine @racgp.bsky.social
My latest publication - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“The Whole Structure Is Knackered, It Could Still Explode, It Really Could”: A Mixed Methods Study of Initiatives to Increase General Practitioner Prescribing in an Opioid Dependence Treatment Progra...
Opioid dependence is a chronic health condition with significant public health implications. Opioid dependence treatment (ODT) has evolved considerably over tim...
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This is one (of many) reasons why I love my 1996 #Landcruiser
Ann Aguirre@annaguirre.bsky.social · 2y agoI don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me. In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
Once more, for the folks at the back: Children are not widgets. Schools are not factories. Education is not a business. Saving money is not the ultimate goal of education. Education is an INVESTMENT in our collective future. #OntEd
If this is true - that "unhurried conversations are a fulcrum around which effective health care operates" - (spoiler: It is definitely true) - then Medicare is an incentive to the enshittification of health care in Australia.
Víctor M Montori MD@vmontori.bsky.social · 2y ago@annfammed.bsky.social has published our paper on unhurried conversations in clinical care www.annfammed.org/content/22/6... The unhurrried conversation is at the heart of effective healthcare.
If Gina owned the sun, Dutton would support solar. #auspol #nuclear #renewables #energy #fossilfuels #ClimateAction
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose. Other signs of his alcoholism included dizziness and chronic reckless behavior.
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.
The Medical Journal of Australia@mja.com.au · 2y agoA national primary-care based trial is the largest ever to determine whether lifestyle therapy is as good as psychological care for improving mental and cardiometabolic outcomes for Australians with serious mental illness. https://buff.ly/3ZuLRzY #medsky #healthcare #aushealth #research
Russian war crimes, too. What a world we live in.
Teens who met in Ukrainian hospital after Putin bombed their homes have a message for the world
Vika Zadnipryana and Nastia Shadura became amputees when Putin's Russian military hit their homes with missiles. They struck up a friendship while recovering in a hospital, which was also dealing with...
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‘Drugs are bad becomes people who use drugs are bad’ NSW Drug Summit 2024. ‘I worry that people will find out - I become Megan the drug user, this robs us of our humanity, you can’t help but absorb this shame…the fundamental sense of being wrong and not belonging…’ Megan Moses
Hon Mark Butler MP speaking at GP24, ‘too many Australians are finding it too hard to get into see a GP’ he says the government has a laser light focus on this, increasing bulk billing rates, increasing doctor numbers with increased overseas trained doctors working in Australia, and mymedicare
Dr Nicole Higgins- addressing GP24- General Practice is the beating heart of the Australian Health System @racgp.bsky.social
