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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Sep 4

As I read some health policies/ guidelines
“When you communicate clearly, people can see your ideas might be wrong or banal,” he says. “That’s scary. So jargon becomes a shield.”

Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have strong views on how to write. Here I bang on about them to the excellent @catherinedevries.bsky.social, for her series on writing, Etched in Marble. Huge thanks to Catherine for the opportunity catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

Etched in Marble: Simon Kuper on Clarity, Memory, and Why Writing Still Matters

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Jul 28

Really powerful article from @jonathanmoens.bsky.social
and colleagues about the abuse of older people through restraints. Focuses on Italy, Spain and Portugal but occurs much more widely
undark.org/2025/07/25/e...

Coercive Care: Southern Europe’s Reliance on Elder Restraints

In parts of Europe, nursing homes use physical restraints on residents, citing safety. But experts warn of harm.

undark.org

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · May 16

Only 40% “almost always” inform patients of the risks associated with altered texture solids. More than one in ﬁve were unable to select even one known risk associated with MDTs. A lot of improvement needed but well done to Drs Matthew Ward and Angela Bowman for highlighting.

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · May 16

It is great to see this now examined in a US survey of 326 speech-language pathologists, but not so great to see our fears confirmed . Less than half participants “almost always” inform the patient of the risks associated with thickened liquids.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/reh...

Frontiers | Oropharyngeal dysphagia management and informed consent: a survey of speech-language pathologists’ practice patterns when recommending modified texture diets

PurposeThe modification of diet textures and liquid viscosity represents the primary form of management of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) by speech-language pa...

www.frontiersin.org

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · May 16

We previously noted – albeit mainly based on indirect evidence that here is ample reason to suggest that current consent practices for modified texture diets is suboptimal but suggested that the topic needed further research.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · May 16

Valid informed consent requires provision of accurate and balanced information, and that agreement is given freely by someone who knows they have a choice. This is true for use of modified texture diets (MTDs) in dysphagia as for other healthcare interventions

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Apr 28

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Title:
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g.
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g.
We collected some samples...
You won't believe what happened next!

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g.
Samples were collected and tested.

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g. We did all the collecting and testing.
No need to thank us.
Just doing our job.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

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biochemyst.bsky.social @biochemyst.bsky.social · Mar 4

Why risk feeding your children?

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Mar 6

Recent posts show a shift to promoting empathy and even being primarily performative. Back to basics! The real challenge is changing current practice.
Another stimulating and painless collaboration
@arlenemccurtin.bsky.social
@lindsey_UoB
@DominikaLis007
@tlpslt.bsky.social
@profpleslie

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Mar 6

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Our take on thickened liquid and modiﬁed texture diet #challenges. Originally @ewidera.bsky.social - and still if used correctly - a valuable role in highlighting the impact of modified diets and encouraging staff to reﬂect on the appropriateness of their use

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Feb 27

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Feb 27

rdcu.be/ebsDM
Just out. Featuring this drawing of his own hallucination by a talented patient: “shiny, silvery” “big, deep, dark eyes, like holes” “almost stretched mouth” “a bit unusual maybe but rather pretty and graceful”.

The eyes have it! Visual hallucinations with facial distortions during delirium

rdcu.be

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Feb 4

Here's a controversy I didn't know existed!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37888960/#:~....

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Jan 31

2015 "nip this “reaching out” nonsense in the bud before it “becomes a thing”" www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/p...
Alas hasn't worked: 3 emails already today.
Stop it!!

www.dailytelegraph.com.au

stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Jan 21

Wonderful article, and sad also in how long effective dx and Tx were delayed. Iron not a panacea - but remember when considering it's not serum iron that counts but the stores - check ferritin/ trans sats www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

I clock up to 20,000 steps a night: my life with restless legs syndrome

I spent years desperate for help and exhausted from lack of sleep. But the condition is badly misunderstood – even by doctors

www.theguardian.com

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Margaret Walshe @margaret-walshe.bsky.social · Dec 26

Delighted to see this published. Open access .. See rdcu.be/d4ST1.
@tcddublin.bsky.social @dysphagiamatters.bsky.social

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · Dec 18

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Dec 12

Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social

The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Why Britain's doctors are in revolt

To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Micah Bateman @micahbateman.bsky.social · Dec 4

Forever burned by Suzanne Buffam

“Dubious Doctors” by Suzanne Buffam, ending with “All Doctors of Literature”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Dec 4

Can’t stop thinking about this @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social column on the poor quality of sound on Spotify and what other reductions in quality that might become commonplace in the future:

We’re all suffering from qualitynesia now

Borne along on the tide of technology, it is far too easy to forget that some things really were better quality in the past

www.ft.com

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Nov 28

Wonderful article on this www.theguardian.com/books/2006/j...

Jane Smiley on The Once and Future King

Jane Smiley continues her analysis of the novel with TH White's Arthurian cycle.

www.theguardian.com

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Nov 28

Wonderful book or rather quartet

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Nov 28

Know the feeling
Like reading Mount Misery after House of God
Or Closing Time after Catch-22

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · Nov 27

Reviewing this. I couldn’t put it down. Piller has done a fantastic and diligent job detailing individual instances of fraudulent Alzheimer research, the resulting contamination of our field and the troubling complacency of research leaders about the problem. Landmark book that will make you angry.

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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · Nov 24

Two authors I've read 50 or more books by:
PG Wodehouse
Georges Simenon
Feeling the urge right now!

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