If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact? #TeamGP #Academia #Publishing www.linkedin.com/posts/jake-m...

Medical Leadership Development for Military Trainees! Initial leadership development needs assessment, ave time 2.1 mins. Help me help you! @defprofmilmeduk.bsky.social @drkateking.bsky.social @edbarn.bsky.social www.surveymonkey.com/r/B7DKYHL

‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’ So says the ever-insightful @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

What can big macs tell us about GP salaries around the world? #TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex open.substack.com/pub/medicuri... Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025. If anyone is considering emigrating

Bit late to post this, but this story from last week based on our annual survey of locum GPs shows how the current jobs crisis is affecting locums. In England most are struggling to find work, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income www.gponline.com/locum-gps-st... #GPnews

Jake - New NIH is tip of ⛰️for what's coming. Consider SIGNING and amplifying this open declaration against exactly this kind of thing to #defendresearch? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Heidi Hi Patient. Is AI about to drastically reduce the need for a GP? #TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...

#SundayReflection What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before. #MedSky #AcademicSky open.substack.com/pub/sensible...

Anyone not joined #Whoop yet and want a free month? Get a free WHOOP 4.0 and one month free when you join with my link: join.whoop.com/4F5621

“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.”  Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare

castbox.fm/app/castbox/... This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis @gponline.bsky.social

Listen to BJGP Associate Editors discussing BJGP's Top 10 most read research published in the last year www.bjgplife.com/193 #BJGPTop10 #PrimaryCare @sammerriel.bsky.social l @drtomround.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social

Collaboration request... #MedSky who can help? I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely? Pls like and share if you agree #MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...

Does anyone else love time saving, technology, @Accurx and @mdcalc ? If so, please read and share. I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools. open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...

open.substack.com/pub/preventa... This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports. And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data. It's inspiring

Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week. #UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky

open.substack.com/pub/insideme... #InsideMedicine with Atul Gawande on USAID stop order

Everyone involved in healthcare in the UK should read this harrowing tale of how the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme did not work in this instance. #TTE #MedSky #yellowcard open.substack.com/pub/trustthe...

The failure for GPs to find work after qualifying is unacceptable Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure digital.nhs.uk/supplementar...

Is this the modern-day NHS postcode lottery? Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access. Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.

There are 6322 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

Cardiovascular disease mortality has declined in many countries over the past decades. For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.

Am trying to find funding for a couple of medical students to present their research at academic conferences. Uni funds limited. Any idea as to where I can try?

#MedTech #AI question for #MedSky ... Why hasn't #PUBMed or the journal publishers produced closed system AI LLM based on their journals and papers yet? Like #Google #Notebook but with all the articles full loaded.

Resolution: Thou Shalt buy no more books until thy has finished the top shelf

bjgp.org/content/75/7... @bjgp.bsky.social Great article by Dr Evans. I'd never heard of the book Medical Nemesis but he explains it well and certainly provokes some thoughts about the limits of modern medicine

If you want to study statins, then you need to start with the key studies, listed here: medicurious.substack.com/p/no-96-why-...

bsky.app/profile/jake... Huge thread, listing summary of major papers, trials and reviews of #statins and #primaryprevention Tried something new. Using BlueSky as a notepad. Is this useful for #MedEd and #EBM ?

This 4 part series is genuinely fascinating, impressive and slightly scary. Almost real life sci fi open.spotify.com/episode/41qS...

Being unwell is hugely challenging, it’s hard enough without the Govt making it harder 7% fewer GPs with 20% less funding (£/patient) to provide care Closing local pharmacies & big chains leaving (Lloyds) 111 directs you back somewhere else Hospitals blocked & fewer beds Ask MPs for better #Medsky

The Power of Vitamin D: Is the Future in Precision Nutrition through Personalized Supplementation Plans? Open Access www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16...

No 95: The Best of #MediCurious 2021-24 #MedEd #TeamGP#MedSky The top 10-15 most popular articles so far... open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...

Books for the new year. The cartoons are to help my son learn to read ... not for me at all 😉

COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE - COLLAPSE UK population ⬆️7% - 2012-24 ❌GPs ⬇️ 7% ❌District nurses ⬇️42% ❌Health Visitors ⬇️30% ❌Learning Disability Nurses⬇️23% ❌School Nurses⬇️25% ❌Nursing home beds ⬇️ 12% ❌Residential Care home beds ⬇️16% ❌Social care cuts Fund not reform! @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

Ppers with funnier titles get more citations "Jokes sometimes find their way into academic papers. “One place where we often see humour is in titles, but there’s a very small amount of literature about whether this is a good idea,” says lead author Stephen Heard www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The JUPITER trial. Published in 2008. One of the few studies that shows a significant mortality benefit (CVD and all cause) with a statin. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

CONCLUSION: Many of us have foundational media - stories that are at the core of who we are as a person. For a lot of us, Discworld is our foundation. I'm a better person today because I read these books. I hope those of you discovering it for the first time have a similar experience. FIN

DO YOU LIKE GOTH SHIT? Start with Mort, the first of the Death books. DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books. DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion. From there, follow this guide to find your next book.

DISCWORLD IS HUMANIST: as a lifelong atheist, I trace a lot of my moral code back to reading Discworld. In the words of his friend Neil Gaiman, Pratchett was a deeply angry man, "and that anger, it seems to me, is about Terry's underlying sense of what is fair and what is not"

Minimalist and lifestyle, or maximalist and mounjaro? Another great post from #sensiblemedicine open.substack.com/pub/sensible...

Do you like #MedEd or #peerreview ? How about #EBM and learning the scientific method by critiquing large famous studies? This review by @sensiblemedicine is a brilliant educational piece and is a great example of how we should do it. Clopidogrel V ticagrelor open.substack.com/pub/sensible...

Twelve questions to ask your doctor for better brain health in the new year "Factors that may protect brain function and practical approach to screening assessments" Open Access www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....

www.tristandc.com/jobs/news-20... how does a GP get anaesthesics experience? #tempted

You may have heard that it took a long time for penicillin to be scaled up. What about other antibiotics? How long did it take for them to be mass produced and introduced clinically, after they were discovered? I created a visualization of this here:

The graphic is a good summary for blast injuries. Hopefully not something you ever need to know but probably a useful "1-pager" to keep in case of emergencies. A HALO event = High Acuity, Low Occurence = rare and deadly.

Associations of the ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity pattern with all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality "Even busy adults could benefit from taking part in one or two sessions of exercise per week" bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/7...

Does it all come back to being "anti-inflammatory"? Buzz word of Internet bro science for the last few years.

#ARCadvent day 2️⃣3️⃣: A pioneering test proven to speed up the diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder #ADHD in children is now being used by the #NHS. A collaboration between @arc-em.bsky.social, Qbtech, NIHR MindTech, @healthinnovation-em.org.uk & more arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/east-mi...

I really hope this works in phase 3. Just imagine if we rally can prevent prostate cancer with a daily omega 3 capsule?

A year on a high omega-3, low omega-6 diet significantly reduced prostate cancer cell proliferation in men on active surveillance. by Aronson WJ, Grogan T (...) Henning SM et 8 al. in J Clin Oncol #MedSky 📖 read the article: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.24.00608