Hey, since we're making up nonsense about paracetamol, did you also know that it increases risk of being taken up in The Rapture, so there's a dilemma for some people now.
Tim Senior
@timsenior.bsky.social
Deep End GP & Churchill Fellow working on Dharawal Country in Aboriginal Community Control. Complex clinical care, policy, education, writing on Indigenous Health, Health Equity, that sort of stuff. Play viola and football, but not at the same time.
Learnt the myotomes and dermotomes through dance back in the day. *eternally grateful to Nik Bogduk for teaching not only the material, but also for giving a lesson on alternative ways of learning
Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles
Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles
If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it's only a matter of time before someone brings up leeches.
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I wrote about not being paternalistic as a doctor, for the @bjgp.bsky.social, and wondered if we might be maternalistic instead. bjgplife.com/paternalistic/
On not being paternalistic
...maybe thinking of ourselves as being maternalistic acknowledges existing authority, and allows us to aim for our patients to thrive, to be in control of their destinies, guided by caring, wise prof
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Yes, I did, and I still wonder how we might music. Original article here: bjgp.org/content/62/6... Love to hear other's ideas.
John Spicer@johnspicer3.bsky.social · last yr.@timsenior.bsky.social asked the question in 2012 [which I confess I overlooked at the time] : How can music be used in med ed ? - or something similar Great question - and here's a starter : Peter Grimes and child protection [and much else besides] Any other thoughts out there? #meded #opera
@timsenior.bsky.social asked the question in 2012 [which I confess I overlooked at the time] : How can music be used in med ed ? - or something similar Great question - and here's a starter : Peter Grimes and child protection [and much else besides] Any other thoughts out there? #meded #opera
One million excess deaths were linked to #deprivation between 2009 and 2020, says Professor Sir @michaelmarmot.bsky.social Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to #austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010 @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...
One million excess deaths linked to deprivation over a decade, Marmot tells conference
One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot has told the Royal College of Physicians annual conference. Speaking at a discussion on health inequalities,...
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In a world where GP is bashed, a lot, @timsenior.bsky.social finds the value bjgp.org/content/75/7... This line in particular got me: The consultations I have had with these patients aren’t consultations of 15 or 30 minutes. They are consultations of 2, 5, 10 years, split up into 15-minute chunks.
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Wow. Curious to hear what GPs and patients think about this?👇🏾 @timsenior.bsky.social @kangaroobeach.bsky.social @lizsturgiss.bsky.social @karenmagraith.bsky.social @brookmanknight.bsky.social @racgp.bsky.social www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Private equity-backed GP chain a winner from Labor health spending
The BGH Capital-owned medical centre operator ForHealth has been a big beneficiary of the government’s increased spending on Medicare and urgent care clinics.
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I've worked in the same clinic for 20 years now. I never thought I'd be in one place for so long. I had a few thoughts on being a GP for a long time in the @bjgp.bsky.social bjgplife.com/how-long-doe...
How long does general practice take?
"... to my surprise, I’ve become the sort of doctor that has been in the same clinic for 20 years. I’ve never been bored, I’ve often been anxious, and I’ve been privileged to witness some of
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Timely call to act on child poverty. Dr Louis Peachey: "We are more frightened that we may give a benefit to a parent we consider undeserving than the consequences of letting their child grow up in poverty. Child poverty shames and diminishes us all." www.croakey.org/a-timely-cal... #SDOH #AusPol
A timely call for action on child poverty
Introduction by Croakey: When infectious diseases specialists gathered for their annual scientific meeting in Canberra recently, a senior Indigenous medico
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I can't read this article, because paywall, but I can read The Guardian, because not paywall, so who knows?
Sometimes when people don’t know how to analyse or evaluate a skill they call it an art #communication
Truly wish the world's media could be even half as outraged at Israel's extermination of the Palestinian people, as they are at trade tariffs.
Things that *should* be a big issue in the Australian election but sadly won't be: - Climate change (even though our election was delayed by massive floods) - Indigenous rights - Inequality - Poverty - Our treatment of asylum seekers - {NEW!} Our relationship with the US
Hello new followers. It's a while since I've posted. But we have an election coming up in Australia (yeah, rmember them America?). Health is going to be a big issue in the election - well, how much people pay to see a GP is going to be a big issue in the election - so I'll try to post a bit more.
Hey, yeah, you should write something for the GP Life blog/journal @bjgp.bsky.social
Andrew Papanikitas@gentlemedic.bsky.social · last yr.A wonderful @bjgp.bsky.social conference last week. Loads of great ideas for articles shared. bjgplife.com/write-for-bj... fyi @euanlawson.social @nadakhan.bsky.social @sammerriel.bsky.social @drtomround.bsky.social @timsenior.bsky.social
A wonderful @bjgp.bsky.social conference last week. Loads of great ideas for articles shared. bjgplife.com/write-for-bj... fyi @euanlawson.social @nadakhan.bsky.social @sammerriel.bsky.social @drtomround.bsky.social @timsenior.bsky.social
Write for (BJGP) Life
I reflect on the journey to (and from) the BJGP conference. Sometimes the writing is already there, and only needs a home. Sometimes it needs an invitation to be written. Writers for (BJGP) Life, I lo
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And I was pleasantly surprised the Facebook memories reminded me of something useful!
Good luck researching head trauma/ traumatic brain injury/ blunt trauma.
Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y agoThe word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?
#evidencebasedmedicine under threat with partial inclusion and reporting embeddding scientific bias and political interests above population health
Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
I'm sure I'm not the only person to post this, but it does seem relevant *right now*.
We've got repeated claims in Australia of $8bn of Medicare fraud, which are totally wrong, but that doesn't matter if it can be grist to this particular mill
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last yr.A very real thing that can definitely be done at a glance by skimming a spreadsheet in a computer system you're unfamiliar with
The Australian equivalent might be Jacinta Price accessing Medicare and Centrelink payment systems
E. Rosalie@erosalie.infoepi.com · last yr.DOGE officials have also sought access to payment and contracting systems across the Department of Health and Human Services, which control hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to health-care providers, and they appear to have gained access to at least some of those systems, the people said.
Today is National Viola Day (I don't know which country - it should be wherever you are right now!) This gives me a great excuse to remember the beautiful piece I commissioned during the COVID lockdowns, played amazingly by Katie Yap. www.youtube.com/watc...
Katie Yap: In My Solitude by Andrew Ford
In My Solitude Andy wrote this piece for Tim Senior, a Sydney-based GP and viola player at the outbreak of the pandemic. Tim anticipated contracting Covid and had asked Andy to write something for him to work on during his recovery - thankfully, he's stayed well and hasn't needed the work for that
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And that's a wrap from us this week. The @croakeynews.bsky.social bulletin has hit the e-streets. www.croakey.org Subscriptions available here: www.croakey.org/subscribe-to...
