Dr Linda Dykes
@drlindadykes.bsky.social
Emergency Physician & GP, UK, PGY29. Mainly Urgent Community Geris/H@H.
#MedSky, #FOAMed, Pro-EU, #smallholdingdream:🐴 🐶 🐔 🦆🐈⬛
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#MedSky, #FOAMed, Pro-EU, #smallholdingdream:🐴 🐶 🐔 🦆🐈⬛
Pers account, likes/RT≠endorsements, absolutely not representing my employer 😂 Rarely follows accounts with no bio! She/her.
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Influenza has come early this year, and with the H3N2 being especially virulent amongst older people, hospitals and ICUs are under pressure. Join us tomorrow (27th November) to learn about flu in ICU this winter. With @ics-updates.bsky.social @rajlaz.bsky.social @shond.bsky.social and Brij Patel
H3N2: Rapid clinical update and implications for this Winter
Preparing intensive care for Winter 2025.
ics.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Influenza has come early this year, and with the H3N2 being especially virulent amongst older people, hospitals and ICUs are under pressure. Join us tomorrow (27th November) to learn about flu in ICU this winter. With @ics-updates.bsky.social @rajlaz.bsky.social @shond.bsky.social and Brij Patel
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AIDS decimated the #LGBT community. In the 80s, I stopped counting the number of people I knew who died horrible deaths.
Since 1988, December 1st has been World AIDS Day, when people mourn those who died. Trump has cancelled it. He's trying to erase LGBT people!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Since 1988, December 1st has been World AIDS Day, when people mourn those who died. Trump has cancelled it. He's trying to erase LGBT people!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
AIDS decimated the #LGBT community. In the 80s, I stopped counting the number of people I knew who died horrible deaths.
Since 1988, December 1st has been World AIDS Day, when people mourn those who died. Trump has cancelled it. He's trying to erase LGBT people!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Since 1988, December 1st has been World AIDS Day, when people mourn those who died. Trump has cancelled it. He's trying to erase LGBT people!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
SEVEN apartment blocks - rounded by bamboo scaffolding at the time, which helped the fire spread. Horrify reminiscent of Grenfell Tower.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
SEVEN apartment blocks - rounded by bamboo scaffolding at the time, which helped the fire spread. Horrify reminiscent of Grenfell Tower.
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed the two-child benefit cap will be lifted.
She told the Commons: “We on this side of the House do not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children” 👏
She told the Commons: “We on this side of the House do not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children” 👏
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed the two-child benefit cap will be lifted.
She told the Commons: “We on this side of the House do not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children” 👏
She told the Commons: “We on this side of the House do not believe that the solution to a broken welfare system is to punish the most vulnerable children” 👏
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Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget.
Thanks Farage.
Thanks Farage.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget.
Thanks Farage.
Thanks Farage.
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Taxes to do not pay for public services. Govt money creation, mainly via the issuing of bonds, does. But, putting aside that lie, I would pay more tax for better public services. The problem is so much has been privatised that our taxes are creamed off by profiteering private firms. That I object to
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Taxes to do not pay for public services. Govt money creation, mainly via the issuing of bonds, does. But, putting aside that lie, I would pay more tax for better public services. The problem is so much has been privatised that our taxes are creamed off by profiteering private firms. That I object to
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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I fucking hate that man with my entire being.
VACCINES SAVE LIVES.
VACCINATE YOUR CROTCH GOBLINS-AND YOURSELF-PLEASE.
VACCINES SAVE LIVES.
VACCINATE YOUR CROTCH GOBLINS-AND YOURSELF-PLEASE.
Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
www.wlwt.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I fucking hate that man with my entire being.
VACCINES SAVE LIVES.
VACCINATE YOUR CROTCH GOBLINS-AND YOURSELF-PLEASE.
VACCINES SAVE LIVES.
VACCINATE YOUR CROTCH GOBLINS-AND YOURSELF-PLEASE.
There are some doctors who have “weaponised” antisemitism too - let alone ministers - via malicious GMC referrals.
Government is accused of ‘weaponising’ antisemitism to silence doctors on Gaza.
BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There are some doctors who have “weaponised” antisemitism too - let alone ministers - via malicious GMC referrals.
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#Tonsillectomy is associated with severe post-op pain. Cumulative 5-day opioid consumption and pain intensity was lower in patients given #methadone post-induction vs #fentanyl but at the expense of worse #PONV #bjaopen https://www.bjaopen.org/article/S2772-6096(25)00042-5/fulltext
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#Tonsillectomy is associated with severe post-op pain. Cumulative 5-day opioid consumption and pain intensity was lower in patients given #methadone post-induction vs #fentanyl but at the expense of worse #PONV #bjaopen https://www.bjaopen.org/article/S2772-6096(25)00042-5/fulltext
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I was at a geographic photography exhibition during the summer by a Mexican. One of the featured posters was of Venezuela. It said that about 8m. people had fled economic collapse due to US sanctions. They went to neighbouring impoverished countries such as Colombia. Many walked by night. Dangerous.
When they attack Venezuela, the regime and its lapdog press is going to saturate the zone with propaganda. Just try to remember that there are completely innocent people on the receiving end of the missiles and bombs.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I was at a geographic photography exhibition during the summer by a Mexican. One of the featured posters was of Venezuela. It said that about 8m. people had fled economic collapse due to US sanctions. They went to neighbouring impoverished countries such as Colombia. Many walked by night. Dangerous.
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Comparison of inhalational methoxyflurane, intranasal fentanyl, and intravenous morphine for treatment of prehospital acute pain in Norway (PreMeFen): a randomised, non-inferiority, three-arm, phase 3 trial - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Comparison of inhalational methoxyflurane, intranasal fentanyl, and intravenous morphine for treatment of prehospital acute pain in Norway (PreMeFen): a randomised, non-inferiority, three-arm, phase 3...
Inhalational methoxyflurane is non-inferior to intranasal fentanyl and intravenous
morphine for acute pain management in the prehospital environment, assessed 10 min
after administration. Inhalational...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Comparison of inhalational methoxyflurane, intranasal fentanyl, and intravenous morphine for treatment of prehospital acute pain in Norway (PreMeFen): a randomised, non-inferiority, three-arm, phase 3 trial - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Elder millennials watching yet another speculative industry get “too big to fail”
a man standing in front of a car that says netflix
ALT: a man standing in front of a car that says netflix
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Elder millennials watching yet another speculative industry get “too big to fail”
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And don’t lie to your family and try to pass your cold/Covid sniffles off as *allergies!*
If you get a cold between now and Thursday, please do not come to urgent care we cannot fix you before Thanksgiving to make you non contagious
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
And don’t lie to your family and try to pass your cold/Covid sniffles off as *allergies!*
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I saw (and heard!) a short video in grad school of a baby with whooping cough and I’m still kind of traumatized 20 years later—no hyperbole.This is seriously, honestly, I promise you, NOT the future we want.
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I saw (and heard!) a short video in grad school of a baby with whooping cough and I’m still kind of traumatized 20 years later—no hyperbole.This is seriously, honestly, I promise you, NOT the future we want.
If I type what I feel about the people responsible for this I’d probably get struck off… but I’m sure you can imagine.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If I type what I feel about the people responsible for this I’d probably get struck off… but I’m sure you can imagine.
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DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
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These are the images that define a generation.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
These are the images that define a generation.
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Good idea. Do it, Home Depot, do it.
Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Good idea. Do it, Home Depot, do it.
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Evaluation Of Jaundice In Adults Review (AAFP)
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Evaluation Of Jaundice In Adults Review (AAFP)
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No amount of 'so called' good work on Ukraine, is going to allow Piggy to wriggle out of this, like a slippery piglet.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
No amount of 'so called' good work on Ukraine, is going to allow Piggy to wriggle out of this, like a slippery piglet.
In big news at the #smallholdingdream, our neighbour’s beautiful runner duck drake is starting to get into his stride! I’m not sure he has yet figured out he needs to do a bit more than just stand on the hen duck’s back like an avian sychnronised swimmer mind you 😂
Parental discretion advised 😵💫😂
Parental discretion advised 😵💫😂
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In big news at the #smallholdingdream, our neighbour’s beautiful runner duck drake is starting to get into his stride! I’m not sure he has yet figured out he needs to do a bit more than just stand on the hen duck’s back like an avian sychnronised swimmer mind you 😂
Parental discretion advised 😵💫😂
Parental discretion advised 😵💫😂
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4/ Meanwhile, an expose in the BMJ brought the experiences of these locally-employed doctors, in short-term, non-standard "gig economy" contracts, into sharp focus.
You can read that one here:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
You can read that one here:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Revealed: Thousands of NHS doctors are trapped in insecure “gig economy” contracts
Thousands of locally employed doctors—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minorities—are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national ...
www.bmj.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
4/ Meanwhile, an expose in the BMJ brought the experiences of these locally-employed doctors, in short-term, non-standard "gig economy" contracts, into sharp focus.
You can read that one here:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
You can read that one here:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...