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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · 8d

Well, that’s @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social Congress wrapped up, and my 13.5 hr train journey home underway. It’s been a privilege to present data from my work with MEIRU on a community survey lung function in Malawi 🇲🇼 & a pleasure to meet so many friends & colleagues - but definitely time for home!

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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · 10d

Read this long, difficult but incredibly balanced and nuanced piece last night. Essential reading for all medics, although perhaps not at the end of a long day on call. Really believe that recognising systems factors does not negate the need for personal ownership of mistakes - but very hard to do

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10d

‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’

@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10d

‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’

@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · 11d

Oof - I’m all for @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social plugging ‘take the active option’ for travel at Congress - but after dutifully walking an hour back to my hotel, not overjoyed to be greeted with a room on the 6th floor & an out-of-service lift 😂 I know I’ll be better for it!

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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · 12d

After a packed week on the Machine Learning in Wearables course in Oxford (glorious in the sunshine), very excited to be on the train to Amsterdam for @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social Congress, to share our work on lung function in Malawi - poster session 25 tomorrow 8am if anyone wants to come& say hi!

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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to be back at @rcpedin.bsky.social in person for the first time in a while, for the Trainees & Members' Committee Strategy day. Making good use of the Members & Fellows' Lounge before the meeting - love that they've got a kids' corner, but my two are a bit big to join me now!

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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · Apr 22

This kind of reporting is frustrating & irresponsible, for @theguardian.com to simply quote wholesale the numbers without critiquing them. Proportion of in-person appts has fallen, but absolute number has massively risen without the same rise in the number of GPs - they are incredibly overstretched

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 22

Patient satisfaction with GP services in England has collapsed, research finds

Exclusive: Family doctors have switched to providing far fewer in-person appointments * GPs in poor parts of England are paid £5,500 less a year than in wealthy areas, study finds Patients’ satisfaction with GP services has collapsed in recent years as family doctors have switched to providing far fewer face-to-face appointments, new research has revealed. The proportion of patients seeing a GP in person has plummeted from more than four-fifths (80.7%) in 2019 to just under two-thirds (66.2%) last year. Continue reading...

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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · Mar 25

Really excited for this evening's @rcpedin.bsky.social Evening Medical Update we've put together on #Multimorbidity: Prof Chris Whitty, Dr David Marshall, & @francesmair.bsky.social on clinical, training, & research implications of multiple long term conditions: www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/gener...

General Internal Medicine

Join us for a comprehensive event addressing the growing challenge of multimorbidity in modern healthcare. Key sessions include insights into broadening the scope of Internal Medicine Group 1 specialt...

www.rcpe.ac.uk

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is medical and scientific health data being blocked. We cannot go down this road. It is dangerous and sets our whole field back. @aphapublichealth.bsky.social

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

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Benedict Warner @benedictwarner.bsky.social · Jan 30

Exciting opportunity for any trainee doctors interested in frailty - @rcpedin.bsky.social are calling for "Challenging Cases" for their 'Medicine of Older People' online symposium on 21/3/25.
Abstract submission deadline is Monday 3/2/25 - more details here: www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/medic...

Medicine of Older People

This online symposium will offer updates and feature sessions on neurology, skin and eyes issues, effective multidisciplinary teams and legal and ethical challenges in caring for older individuals.

www.rcpe.ac.uk

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