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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · 23d

Agree D is the correct answer here, but distressed to see an account called ‘Brilliant Maps’ using the Mercator Projection

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · 23d

Try Irn-Bru **. Clears every food bolus, significantly reduces need for endoscopy, enhances health and improves productivity. (**peer reviewed evidence awaited)

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · 27d

This sort of problem is really quite unusual behaviour for humans. Other countries are available.

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Sanjay Popat @drsanjaypopat.bsky.social · Sep 5

For those of you wondering why newer antibodies are now called -tugs -barts -migs and -ments not -mabs, this is the official @who.int INN explainer

tinyurl.com/49bxfn4t

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Sep 1

Highly recommend this event. I had the opportunity to go last year - excellent for learning and great networking

#LCSM #Oncsky #MedSky 🫁🫁

TOGA @togaanz.bsky.social · Aug 31

📣 Calling early-career clinicians!

TOGA’s 2025 Lung Cancer Preceptorship is your chance to deepen your knowledge of thoracic cancers and learn from top experts in a hands-on setting.

📅 Dates: November 28-29
📍 Location: Melbourne

Expressions of interest close 30 September 2025.

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 14

Affirmative gerrymandering?

Progressives have to fight back, but Newsome might tarnish himself in the process

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 14

🫁Reduced smoking rates have prevented 3.8million lung cancer deaths in USA alone since 1970

Not all lung cancer is caused by smoking, but a large portion of it is. Public policy can be very effective. All countries should move towards net zero tobacco

#LCMS #medsky #Oncsky
doi.org/10.3322/caac...

Averted lung cancer deaths due to reductions in cigarette smoking in the United States, 1970–2022

Lung cancer mortality rates in the United States have declined steeply in recent decades, largely because of substantial reductions in smoking prevalence, as approximately 85% of lung cancer deaths a....

doi.org

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 13

I feel restless re AI in medicine because I can’t picture the end goal.

??medical fields with a small group of research active innovators, and a large workforce of nurses directed by AI?

Perhaps some physicians might be happy with gardening and leisure, but I don’t see that as desirable.

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 12

60y/o man with bromide induced psychosis after consulting with ChatGPT on how to improve his diet 🧂🥦.

***For anyone in doubt, do not ask AI for medical advice. Even the best tools are dangerous when used for the wrong job***

#medsky #AI #ChatGPT #Bromide

www.acpjournals.org/doi/epdf/10....

A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence

www.acpjournals.org

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is much better equipped than the airlines I’ve Good Samaritan’d for!

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 28

As a young FY1, I once foolishly admitted a 102 year old patient under general surgery:

Ward Round
Mr Surgeon: “Hello there dear… … would you like a cup of tea?”

Patient: “oh yes”

Mr Surgeon: “PLAN: cup of tea, the make make Geri’s take over care”

Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Phase I/II of an oncolytic immunotherapy + Nivo for anti-PD1-Refactoy melanoma

👉Stage 4 Cutaneous
🦠ORR 32.9%
🦠 median DOR 33.7months
🦠Response in injected + non-injected lesions
🦠G3/4 tox 12.9%

Exciting prospect in difficult setting
Phase III already underway…

#oncsky #medsky #melanoma #IO #virus

RP1 Combined With Nivolumab in Advanced Anti–PD-1–Failed Melanoma (IGNYTE)

PURPOSEEffective treatment options for melanoma after immune checkpoint blockade failure are limited. RP1 (vusolimogene oderparepvec) is an HSV-1–based oncolytic immunotherapy, here evaluated in combi...

ascopubs.org

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 16

A careful version of this (exemptions for children, elderly, pregnancy etc) is not necessarily all bad

Many GP practices are basically local small businesses owned by the doctors who work there

In Australia & New Zealand patients pay a small fee to see GP, both have great public healthcare systems

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Jul 16

Patients should pay £20 for a GP appointment as part of an insurance-based NHS, says former Tory Minister Sajid Javid.

It is a plan for mass democide of low/middle income families, sick, old and disabled to enable corporations/rich to profiteer.

Defend your rights or lose them.
archive.ph/lJHUh

Charge £20 for GP appointments, says think tank

Sajid Javid, who backs report by Policy Exchange, says Britain is ‘long overdue’ a ‘serious conversation’ about how the NHS is funded

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 15

Duolingo, when is this sentence going to come up in conversation??

(¿Por qué eres tan duro con Pedro?)

@duolingoverde.bsky.social #duolingo #spanish #español #dog #perro

Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bills in progress indicate your elected representatives are voting for this batshit madness

Soo many politicians have a legal or economic skillset, but very few are scientifically or medically literate

One way to get politics out of science would be for more scientists to get elected into politics

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Jul 11

Rolling back vaccine access while expanding unwarranted access to over the counter ivermectin is proof that we are living in a most idiotic timeline.

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 11

Interesting that students get up much earlier than the retired. They must be working hard whilst the boomers are still hung over.

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 9

Original peer-reviewed article here:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SRT-H: A hierarchical framework for autonomous surgery via language-conditioned imitation learning

A language-guided imitation learning framework achieves step-level autonomy in robotic cholecystectomy surgeries.

www.science.org

Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 9

🤖Robotic AI Surgeons? Guardian article anticipates within 10 years. Extrapolates a trial of 8 post-mortem procedures on animal models.

Amazing work, but I see huge regulatory barriers before roll out of AI surgery, not to mention massive issues with acceptability to patients🤖

#medsky #AI #surgery

Robot surgery on humans could be trialled within decade after success on pig organs

AI-trained robot carries out procedures on dead pig organs to remove gall bladders without any human help

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 4

Untucked.

I would feel deeply dubious about a colleague who’s scrubs were tucked in.

(But also I’m an oncologist and try very hard not to wear scrubs at all)

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 3

Never fear a challenge, but seek hazardous adventure

⬆️This advice from a colleague has been on my mind all day

#medsky #life #career #personalgrowth

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jul 3

There is no other wealthy country with the concept of ‘losing healthcare’

If Americans can wake up one morning without the access to healthcare, how many other basic human rights could you also lose?

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is exactly the sort of thing an AI would post on its social media accounts

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jun 27

It’s the label that is most upsetting. Nobody needs a cheesy ranch river glugging through a once fresh green meadow

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Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jun 27

100% agree tax on net wealth (or real estate ownership) badly needed and would help address multiple problems.

Still leaves us transferring wealth around the same shrinking economy. I think the government could pitch short term pain if it was part of a plan for real meaningful economic growth

Dr Mathew Wilson @mathewgwilson.bsky.social · Jun 27

She reminds me of Saddam Husseins spokesman ‘Comical Ali’ who had to make increasingly ridiculous daily statements about his bosses power and prestige during the Iraq war whilst the regimen was falling apart

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