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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Aug 2

Really nice example, thank you

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ClaytonClent @claytonclent.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

www.openculture.com

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

bjgplife.com

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Aug 2

Now, thats an interesting example!

Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Aug 2

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 · Aug 1

@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

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John Spicer @johnspicer3.bsky.social · Aug 1

@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

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Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · Jun 4

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,...

www.bmj.com

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Claire Friedemann Smith @clairefriedsmith.bsky.social · May 15

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.

bjgp.org

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · May 15

Thank you. I'm glad that felt familiar!

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Mariam Tokhi @mariamtokhi.bsky.social · Apr 28

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.

www.afr.com

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · May 7

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

bjgplife.com

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · Apr 15

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

www.croakey.org

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Apr 11

Yes, true, if I really want to read it

Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Apr 11

I can't read this article, because paywall, but I can read The Guardian, because not paywall, so who knows?

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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · Apr 2

Sometimes when people don’t know how to analyse or evaluate a skill they call it an art #communication

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · Apr 2

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.

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · Mar 31

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.

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