John Platt
@johnsplatt.bsky.social
NHS doctor 1979-2024, physician, geriatrician and stroke physician with an interest in teaching. Now retired. Lancastrian but long in London. Art and the natural world. Reader. Tries to keep drawing.
Yes - and, as when we medics are patients too, I think we usually prefer simple, and perhaps even repeated, communications ( at least initially ) that don’t just assume that we are functioning as a highly knowledgable colleague. A difficult art I think. I was always learning !
January 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Yes - and, as when we medics are patients too, I think we usually prefer simple, and perhaps even repeated, communications ( at least initially ) that don’t just assume that we are functioning as a highly knowledgable colleague. A difficult art I think. I was always learning !
My mother had a severe stroke at a similar age, which eventually led to nursing home care. As a geriatrician specialising in stroke care, my skills of interpreting CT scans, when I was kindly shown hers by the consultant, were of very little help due to my emotional state.
Wishing your mother well
Wishing your mother well
January 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
My mother had a severe stroke at a similar age, which eventually led to nursing home care. As a geriatrician specialising in stroke care, my skills of interpreting CT scans, when I was kindly shown hers by the consultant, were of very little help due to my emotional state.
Wishing your mother well
Wishing your mother well
A very tardy response, having just seen this. I was delighted to see your plans for March and send you hearty wishes for success and for the year ahead in general.
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
A very tardy response, having just seen this. I was delighted to see your plans for March and send you hearty wishes for success and for the year ahead in general.
Sound, succinct and clear advice, similar to what I have heard from others of her generation.
That was a wonderful gift. And great that she used it to such good effect.
That was a wonderful gift. And great that she used it to such good effect.
December 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sound, succinct and clear advice, similar to what I have heard from others of her generation.
That was a wonderful gift. And great that she used it to such good effect.
That was a wonderful gift. And great that she used it to such good effect.
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See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...