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Ruth Thorpe

@ruth.medsky.social

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European music-loving medic 🎶 Alto in nonsuchsingers.org.uk and temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk 🩺 #MedSky Neurology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Law. Refugees welcome. She/her.

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 9h

#PinacotecaAmbrosiana
#Milan
#LeonardoDaVinci

Leonardo da Vinci, portrait of a musician. Three-quarters head and shoulder portrait of a curly-haired young man looking to our right. He holds a slip of manuscript paper in his right hand. He has a calm, focused expression, as if he's in the middle of a task. He wears a red cap. The background is dark.

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 1d

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Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a clinician who wants to do a PhD? Come to @crick.ac.uk (you can even come to my lab).

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 8d

Varenna ferry, from Bellagio

Ferry heading to Varenna, seen from Bellagio. Deep blue water of Lake Como, green wooded slopes on the Eastern shore of the lake, blue sky.

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 11d

Congratulations, Dr Lock 🍰🎶

Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 18d

We loved it so much we had to go back and see it again within 10 days and take our daughter 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 20d

Thanks for recommending this, I loved it 📚

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 24d

Born With Teeth. It's so good, we had to go again.
#Theatre
#RSC
#London
#LizDuffyAdams

Side view of Ncuti Gatwa as Kit Marlowe, nose-to-nose with Edward Bluemel as Shakespeare, in rehearsal. Kit wears a rich silver doublet. He's cupping Will's face in both hands, looking up into his eyes as if earnestly trying to get a point across. Will is in a plain dark jumper. He's holding back, looking down with fists clenched.

Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 24d

My life flashed before my eyes 🤦‍♂️

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25d

An experiment:

If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 25d

Going for the second time tomorrow and looking forward to it immensely 🎭

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 26d

Tried to pay for postage to the US using #RoyalMail online. Can't do it without accepting all cookies and they 'require' recipient's email and phone number. I don't want tracking. It's a birthday card, no need for her to know when it will be delivered. Outrageous abuse of personal data. No thanks.

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 27d

Domenico Ghirlandaio
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#NationalGallery
#London

Madonna and Child. The Virgin stands in an arched window, wearing a red dress and dark hooded cloak, with a fine veil just visible under it. She's looking down tenderly at the infant Jesus. He stands on her right, on a gold cushion on the sill in front of her. This also has a richly-coloured striped cloth over it. Jesus is looking back up at his mother. He rests his left arm on her shoulder and holds on to her dress with his left hand. He holds up a finger of his right hand as though he's preaching. Another veil is looped over the crook of his right elbow and she's holding the end of it with her left hand, while her right hand supports his chubby leg. The backs of their heads, the veil and the Virgin's left arm make an oval framing their faces. There's blue sky, hills and a lake behind them.

Portrait of a young man: head and shoulders, 3/4 face Portrait of clean-shaven man looking off and upwards to the left with a thoughtful expression. He's wearing a redtunic with a small roustand-up collar and a simple black hat. He has collar-length curly brown hair. The background is a green hill with a few trees and there are blue mountains in the distance.

Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · 27d

Glad to hear it was such a success, sorry we couldn't be there 🎶

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · Sep 23

But you can't deny that the cartoonishness has been across the board. Sometimes cartoons are very entertaining!

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · Sep 19

Arf

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RosyChipshop @rosychipshop.bsky.social · Sep 14

A sobering but massively powerful piece. Our youngest's girlfriend is black and was due to travel back to London yesterday via Waterloo. She asked to stay here in relative, rural security because she was scared of the people on that march. This is not a drill open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo

It's clear now that we are in a battle of terrible proportions.

open.substack.com

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 14

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Sep 11

Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.

Regulatory failure at its worst.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GMC examines doctor’s Reform speech linking vaccines to royal family cancer

Medical bodies and prime minister condemn Aseem Malhotra’s ‘pseudo-science’ remarks at party conference

www.theguardian.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Duties of a Doctor (General Medical Council) imply that giving out false or misleading information that could lead to harm might be grounds for removing a doctor from the Medical Register.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Sep 6

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations 💐

Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · Aug 24

I'd been told it was boring but I was enthralled.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · Aug 21

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

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Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social · Aug 21

Here, have a cup of tea ☕️

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