Hamish Houston
@hamishhouston.bsky.social
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Infectious diseases & Internal medicine doctor @ UCLH 🇬🇧
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with a great debate section: "This house believes The General Medical Council (GMC) should support a mandatory register of interests for UK doctors"
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The FHJ debate: The General Medical Council (GMC) should support a mandatory register of interests for UK doctors
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Congrats to Chris van Tullekan and team @futurehealthj.bsky.social for superb special issue on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in public health and policy:
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Great to present feasibility study on AI to detect invasive pulmonary mould infections from CT scans at #BIASpring2025.

Proof-of-concept but need to develop surrounding infrastructure to develop this and other AI projects within NHS.

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Can’t vote - is link broken?
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New: Our analysis indicates that the Trump administration's proposed 90-day policy review would result in at least 100,000 lives lost over the next year. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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An paper by colleagues at UCLH about how badly we record AMR as cause of death on death certificates and a new definition for “AMR-attributable mortality”. academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic... @gpollara.bsky.social
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Interesting article as I’ve a coughing son at home. As an adult doc I hadn’t heard of “protracted bacterial bronchitis” before. Recommendation for 2weeks co-amoxiclav makes me nervous from AMS perspective but NNT of 3 is impressive. What do you think #IDSky ?
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Chronic cough in preschool aged children
### What you need to know A 20 month old boy is brought for review in general practice because his parents are concerned that he has had a persistent cough for nearly six months. Six weeks ago, he wa...
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Good day to remind everyone

Around the globe the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years

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hamishhouston.bsky.social
Very pleased to have joined the #IDSky community on here and to make my first bloop!
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If on twitter it was called a tweet, on BlueSky is it called a bloop?