Dr Michael Clifford
@drmikeclifford.bsky.social
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Paediatric Intensivist and Anaesthetist, atheist, skeptic, member of the “Guardian Reading, Tofu eating, Wokerati”, ex-animal eater, former alcohol self-medicator Still learning to partner, parent, and appreciate the small things (like compost microbes)
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One of the most important editorials about children by one of Australia's living treasures - "..the world has forgotten that no child is an enemy, unless you make
them so." please read and share - please
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Sooo ...not so game changery then ...
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Amen brother - pass the post-how and sell those Fisher and Paykel shares
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Another negative high flow trial - lets torture that data to find a justification to use it quick !
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BREAKING FROM THE NOBEL MUSEUM
the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine 2025
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For the non-aussies - Kaz Cooke wrote the bible for pregnancy "Up the duff" is part of the canon - Ulysses, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Room of My Own...you will laugh till your waters break
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This is so factual & clearly-explained: how & why the thoughtful, evidence-based Australian approach to #trans & #nonbinary kids & teens works. It exposes the UK Cass report as very dog's breakfast-y indeed & outlines a much better way than the UK & US Govt adoption of anti-trans nastiness.
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Well Australia is seeing the Cass Review for what it is - a political sham!
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
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@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
One of the most important editorials about children by one of Australia's living treasures - "..the world has forgotten that no child is an enemy, unless you make
them so." please read and share - please
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drmikeclifford.bsky.social
One of the most important editorials about children by one of Australia's living treasures - "..the world has forgotten that no child is an enemy, unless you make
them so." please read and share - please
adc.bmj.com/content/arch...
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Thats me on the right !! - med students were paid to be "models and trialists" the headache was not as bad as the gastritis from the naproxen trial later that year
drmikeclifford.bsky.social
One of the most important editorials about children by one of Australia's living treasures - "..the world has forgotten that no child is an enemy, unless you make
them so." please read and share - please
adc.bmj.com/content/arch...
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100 years later, the world has forgotten
that no child is an enemy, unless you make
them so.
drmikeclifford.bsky.social
One of the most important editorials about children by one of Australia's living treasures - "..the world has forgotten that no child is an enemy, unless you make
them so." please read and share - please
adc.bmj.com/content/arch...
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..not as committed to paracetamol at the time. Shann F. Paracetamol: when, why and how much. J Paediatr Child Health. 1993 Apr;29(2):84-5
Parcetamol: When, why and how much
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Ps they have a UK store !
Trish “The Raptor” Greenhalgh
(I bought your book in 1998 when I was a PICU registrar working with Frank Shann - one of his many bits of good advice …along with ”get the right tube in the right hole at the right distance and do an Xray”
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Sweaty Betty? Halara? (they have Micro Waffle) or Everything Australian - they have Hard Yakka - in case you need to crack out a hammer drill …let us all know how you go
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Scrubs come in plain black cotton - that’s what I use - although “dressing up “ for an anaesthetist is what we call “ tracky dacks” High end for us would be “fancy tracky dacks” mrsimple.com.au/products/bur...
Dr.Woof has a deal compression socks
(Would still die before I wear a tie ..or a lanyard)
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Great initiative by our state government - the YELLOW CAUTION - whilst laudable - could have been more impressive in WSPU colours ( now used for IWD)
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before the EBM (Evidence Based Mythology) kicks off - yes ..
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+Ann (apologies) - as long as he planned, listed, shopped, cooked, cleaned, put away leftovers - the serving for your lunch tomorrow in the last of the Tupperware Rock'n Serves..and then has done it again ...along with the laundry, the vet appt for the cat and the birthday card for your mum.
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Mary - the solution to your problem(s) is very straightforward...you need a wife
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Florence Nightingale immortalised as the Lady with the Lamp, reformed prostitution laws, supported suffrage and was the first woman elected to the Royal Statistical Society. Her statue is in Waterloo place - it has the wrong lamp.
Mary Secole now has a statue outside St Thomas' Hospital.
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* "a warm and successful physician, who doctors and cures all manner of men with extraordinary success. She is always in attendance near the battlefield to aid the wounded and has earned many a poor fellow's blessing." 14 September 1855, William Howard Russell, The Times.