Woke up and smell the coffee! Reflections on why general practice is woke bjgplife.com/coffee/
Woke up and smell the coffee! – BJGP Life
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Andrew Papanikitas
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GP with interests in education, ethics, journalism and clinical communication. Deputy editor of BJGP. retweet not endorsement, opinions are own.
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Andrew Papanikitas@gentlemedic.bsky.social · 4mo agoAm off to London for a morning discussing teaching and learning medical ethics and philosophy at the Apothecaries course (running since 1978) with John Spicer and colleagues - final day (new course commencing autumn apothecaries.shorthandstories.com/ethics-philo...
This weekend's essay, with the perfect Tin Man doppelgänger illustration, and yeah, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Yes They Want to Kill Us: The Worshippers of Machines Versus Human Beings
This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the la...
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Remember: cynicism is a trap. The billionaire class and their GOP lackeys want us to fall into hopelessness so they can have it all without any resistance. It costs them nothing and costs us everything. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
Reassurance is not simply the result of giving the right diagnosis or the right explanation. I’m grateful to Andrew @gentlemedic.bsky.social and the BJGP Life editorial team for publishing this reflection.
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Think the next lane is moving faster? Maths says you're probably wrong. Most traffic jams aren't caused by crashes – they're created by tiny braking differences that ripple backwards into "phantom jams." Smooth driving beats aggressive driving every time. Randa Herzallah explains
Don’t change lanes – the maths of holiday traffic jams
Traffic jams often happen without a real incident, and the maths tells us that changing lanes will make things worse
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Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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REMEMBER THIS... OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT IS A LYING, CHEATING, CORRUPT PIECE OF S***
"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue
Bath MP Wera Hobhouse says Thames Water customers have been let down 'time and again' by the failing firm. Its creditors want permission to pollute outside the rules until 2030. Can you take 2 mins to email the Board, urging them to reject the deal? vist.ly/5b8bb
When we oppose budget cuts to federal agencies, this is why. When we oppose layoffs of federal workers tasked with protecting the public, this is why. When we oppose regulatory cuts that jeopardize our health, this is why.
Trump's CDC stopped monitoring explosive diarrhea parasite before outbreak
FoodNet previously surveilled eight pathogens, for more than three decades. In 2025, monitoring was reduced down to two.
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There’s no such thing as minor illness bjgplife.com/minorillness/
There’s no such thing as minor illness – BJGP Life
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The Strait of Hormuz and global antibiotic security bjgplife.com/the-strait-o...
The Strait of Hormuz and global antibiotic security – BJGP Life
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Wielding a double-edged sword: how can learners use AI well in reflection? bjgplife.com/wielding-a-d...
Wielding a double-edged sword: how can learners use AI well in reflection? – BJGP Life
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Medical tourism: the good, the bad, and the ugly bjgplife.com/medical-tour...
Medical tourism: the good, the bad, and the ugly – BJGP Life
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"For every day Trump's been in the White House, he's become roughly $2.5 million richer. "It would take an average American 40 years to make what Trump’s raking in one day." As America battles an affordability crisis, Trump's made an eye-watering $1.4 billion via crypto.
@drpoco.bsky.social presenting her SHIP study at SAPC plenary - communication of prognosis between hospitals and GP surgeries.
To fall into a stupor of self-absorption, as Trump has done, is to flee from reality. Few wars are worth fighting; those that are fought can only be won in the world, and not within the tortured confines of estranged minds.
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3mo agoAs Trump announced his whimsy war in Iran, I was reading about another imperial campaign, long ago, against an Iranian people. I found a perspective on the wars of today, & a sense of why, beyond his obvious incompetence in military matters, Trump had to lose his. snyder.substack.com/p/of-stoicis...
Labour should ‘be kind’, a Makerfield voter told me. So how about stopping the relentless closures of precious day centres? | John Harris
Labour should ‘be kind’, a Makerfield voter told me. So how about stopping the relentless closures of precious day centres? | John Harris
Countless spaces for adults with complex needs have been shut down. If Andy Burnham wants to fix social care, keeping them open must be a priority, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power
Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power
With Burnham and his team potentially having only weeks before he becomes PM, Starmer has agreed to give him access to civil service Keir Starmer has met Andy Burnham for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what sources said was a “frosty” meeting to thrash out a transition of power. The prime minister has agreed for his likely successor to have talks with the civil service to smooth his path, but there is deep resentment within his inner circle towards Burnham for ousting Starmer. Continue reading...
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Dear @terrypratchett.bsky.social colleagues am trying to track down exact page/paragraph for the too much universe, too little time quotation in The Last Hero for an editorial and I can't find it in the actual book. Can u help? The internet is being rubbish on this one.
“If you were to take what should be public transportation planning and turn it into a neoliberal nightmare, this is exactly what you would get" #MuskReality www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams
Ten years ago, after complaining that traffic was ‘driving him nuts’, Musk’s Boring Company began building underground tunnels to ease congestion on the roads. Did he overpromise and underdeliver?
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