Just been in a brilliant webinar for teachers (mostly) with four other authors and Anna Lise Gordon (host) from St Mary's Twickenham talking about children's books about grief and bereavement.

I'm confident nobody will share this.

We can’t keep preaching about diet quality as if it’s a free choice once the information is provided. This is out of touch. In the most deprived fifth of the population families need to to spend 70% of their disposable income to afford healthy foods guidelines. foodfoundation.org.uk/press-releas...

I've been at both ends of the stethoscope. Over-reliance on record leads to unhelpful assumptions. Not reading them leads to missing important stuff. Expecting patient to remember date & name of operation + pathology findings is unrealistic. I'm sure you do read notes. Surprised how many don't.

I'm looking for good recent article, by a human, in reputable journal about how docs (hospital or GP) approach patients in last year of life dying from causes other than cancer or dementia. Ideas? Names to look out for? I know how to use medline, but most of what I find is on cancer.

Think about this. It is important. And a bit boring.

Lots of "commentators" are rewarded for spreading lies and convincing you that everything is getting worse and you should be afraid. The good news is it's not: homicides at their lowest level in 50 years and killings involving a knife are at their lowest recorded level www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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But: "[The figures] cannot mask how far away services are from meeting the standards patients should be able to expect."

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There is an argument that it always has been. Deterence only works as a strategy if the very few people with real power are bothered if civilisations are destroyed

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Seems to me we all bear the conseqences of the war, even those who opposed it. We may not feel responsible - but our energy costs rise as does pollution. Refugees require our support. Net zero becomes less possible. We're at greater risk in any future war because rules no longer apply. All of us.

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You are right it is not quite the same, but the history is worth remembering when we ralj about now. Because the UK Government's admiration & suppirt fir the USA's policies, whether they are right or wrong is longstanding.

Well, it worked. Enough for seven and a half hours sleep, anyway! 🙂

Paperback publication day! Have a good read. Things changing far too slowly for #womeninSTEM

People with a learning disability were among the first groups of people to be targeted during the Holocaust – sterilised and murdered under the Nazi’s Aktion T4 programme that killed an estimated 300,000 disabled people. 2/3

Thank you. I look forward tk reading the blog.

Many of those who most need to understand this are individuals and small organisations who may not have access to Institutional Libraries. I will see if I can get it via the public Library. @nigelmorson.bsky.social any ideas?

Don't tell him. He will be after Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa.

It is surely possible to make a bad thing worse. Expansion of Bernal's first law.

So sorry to read this. I worked with him in the Community Team for people with learning disabilitirs back in the 1980s. C9ndolences ti the family.

Help needed from human being to human being struggling with Word. How do I get a web address to copy across as hypertext NOT as hyperlink with curly brackets. "A child of 5 coukd do it - pkease send a child of 5" .

Great thread about one person's experience of cochlear implants.

Does anyone even know what a neighbourhood is? A village? A town? Area within walking distance 9f a school/shop/ surgery? Population 1,500? Population 250,000? Word seens to mean different things in different parts of DOH/NHS-E speak. Not to mention ordinary human being speak.

Cheers Tom.

When you read "multiple cyber threat actors are actively leveraging" what is the first image that comes to mind? Sadly, today's monsters are certainly bad actors, but may be harder to defeat than Cybermen or Daleks. If the joke is lost on you, it could be your age or childhood TV habits.

BREAKING: Statement just posted by Keir Starmer

Possibly. Or that being the tough guy to end all tough guys will win him enough votes in September.

Poverty is bad for your health as something we've known for a long time. But this paper has data to show how different health problems pike up in the most disadvantaged populations. If preventing multi-morbidity & premature death is the aim Govts need to get tough on poverty & its causes.

One of the best things about working with South Asians is their philosophy of secularism, which is a positive secularism: everyone embraces and celebrates everyone else's festivals. I've been wished Happy Christmas by all my Hindu & Muslim friends, and I wish them happiness on all their festivals ♥️

"The Borrowers"? Alternatively, as my late mun used to say looing round the piles of papers accumulating in every surface "Buried 'neath some snow deep alp".

Congratulations to pop tart for their popular ad campaign, but I am reserving judgement for when they are no longer selling chemical sugar goo inside of a stale cracker with a nutritional value lesser than the cash used to purchase them.

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Very sorry to read this. First mer Aggrey when I was a medical studenr in Brum. Later worked with him as a colleague at St George's. Learned a lor both times. Rest in power.

Not sure you are selling the desirability of your accessible kitchen. Is Thetford delicious as well? Are there crumpets? Cheese? Marmite?l

Spouting self-aggrandising hubristic rubbish may or may not be related to mental illness. Either way it is still rubbish. Most crimes are committedby sane people of normal intelligence.

Inumerate?

And to you Lloyd and Steve

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#OtD 12 Dec 1866 the worst mining disaster in English history occurred when the Oaks Colliery exploded killing 361 miners and rescuers aged between 10 and 67. The inquest concluded the deaths were caused by management negligence stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8377...

The important question is whether this year’s flu season will peak soon (and so we have a ‘normal’ serious flu wave, shifted earlier) or whether it will keep going up and only peak towards end of the year in which case it will be a terrible flu season - i.e. are we in scenario A or scenario B. 6/10

HELP! When buying a house is it the new normal for solicitor to require purchaser to install an app - only available on a smartphone- to verify identity? Should I be uploading personal data into the cloud in this way? Am I a technophobic old bat even to worry about it?

At the risk of whataboutery, Milton, Frieda Kahlo, Tracey Emin, Klee, Matisse, Sylvia Plath, Munch etc etc name whose admired art may well also have been therapeutic for the artist. So what? Either the art produces an effect on us, the viwer/audience or it doesn't.