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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 6d

Healthcare: what is it for? Inaugural event of the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare: Sir David Haslam. Fri Oct 31st: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/centr... @mgtmccartney.bsky.social

Healthcare: what is it for?

Please join us online at the first event of the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare. We are delighted to

events.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 7d

Free to access Delphi study on what would make it easier to make and understand declarations of interest. Thankyou to everyone who took part. Next is to build it…. t.co/igfJKeybX5

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9/e103058

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 9d

"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation."

Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social

The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth

YouTube video by Katie Couric

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 12d

sign up sign up
come along to our first event 31st october or add yourself to our mailing list for a streamed section of the day. it's going to be excellent. no sponsorship, independent, and amazing people are coming medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 13d

V excited with postal delivery

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James Larkin @jameslarkin13.bsky.social · 15d

🚨Publication🚨

Grateful to be part of this publication with @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and colleagues

Take home: lots of hormone replace therapy social media claims don't align with best practice recommendations. And lots of the posters have conflicts of interest.

Full study: tinyurl.com/2rxpfwnr

Does online information about hormone replacement therapy (or menopause hormone therapy) reflect indications from the British National Formulary and guidance from the National Institute for Health and...

Objectives To describe: (1) the most visible information (from individuals or organisations) on UK social media regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT)/menopause hormone treatment for menopause; (...

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 17d

hi @drlouisenewson.bsky.social . someone just sent me a link to a 'Perimenopause, menopause and mental health: a global survey' but the questions seem so biased that I am having difficulty believing that this is part of research project? has it ethics approval? thankyou.

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 1

VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 5

Benches are better!

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 3

20 years post TGN 1412, later , are drug trials safer? v pleased to be doing this for @BBCRadio4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Drug Trial That Went Wrong

What lessons have been learned from a 2006 clinical trial at Northwick Park Hospital?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 3

hahaha.
did you like the aubergine I feel was under appreciated

(we should have a drink)

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 3

thanks Alf. if you join the mailing list we will let you know how to join for the talk by DH.

Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 1

VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Sep 1

it was great !

Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Aug 15

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Lifestyle medicine shouldn’t be a separate branch of medicine

What is lifestyle medicine? It’s a massive hit on social media, where it seems to have captured the zeitgeist of a generation of doctors who are noticing, rightly, that many chronic health conditions ...

www.bmj.com

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Aug 6

😘

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · Jul 30

Good to see @mgtmccartney.bsky.social & @debscohen.bsky.social back out on tour

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Aug 6

meantime Rohin I do think I will be seeing you in Oxford and therefore will be buying you a drink for this before run off for sleeper.

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Aug 6

oh no I am sorry. We hoped to bring a balanced view to an organisation which has had a lot of criticism, set against other similar-ish research organisations. we started out 1. thing has had a lot of criticisms 2. what are they, are they justified etc I will hang head in shame et c

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The BMJ @bmj.com · Aug 1

The UK’s flagship health research programme promises breakthroughs, but beneath an NHS branded facade, critics are asking who really benefits from the database, heavily backed by industry and government.

@mgtmccartney.bsky.social and ‪@debscohen.bsky.social‬ investigate
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Jul 20

I think Grey and Raffle win that, but am at [email protected]

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Jun 22

notes on rcgp council yesterday margaretmccartney.com/2025/06/22/r...

RCGP council 21/6/25

As ever, I can only report what I say, and I try not to repeat what others have. Council members have 2mins only to speak on subjects. I do have problems with this; it’s not a good quality co…

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · Jun 22

am on it!

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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · May 14

and
@wesstreeting
if you are not doing anything tonight, please feel free to come alonghttps://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/making-waves-lecture-series-dr-margaret-mccartney-dr-chris-van-tulleken/

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