*164 as I’ve just finished one more, but so pleased to see how many universes have helped me escape from a difficult year, and have helped me celebrate my dad’s cancer free achievement ❤️ #GoodreadsYearinBooks #books #bookworm

Not many know that my laptop died literally less than a week before my first year viva. The new one has finally been christened with stickers from @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social Anyone else that pops their personality all over their laptop?❤️ @sarahgraley.com @fuzzballs.bsky.social @bexiidraws.bsky.social

A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards. Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer” www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Delighted to have been featured in a national poetry showcase, “Poetry and health”, by the @creativeclinic.bsky.social, that can we watched here: www.creativeclinic.org/poetry Writing poetry in a second language has been something I’ve beent trying for a while, it’s lovely to see it appreciated 💙

Claws grab my waist Womb split open. Despair,it creates Earplugs that tighten Shutting out reality Screaming impostorism There’s no possibility, To academics-euphemism, To be both disabled And successful. All along you needed Them to be thoughtful: It’s not a crime To need time

Book launch day joy! #stephaniegarber so curious to see the new universe built by the author of Caraval, one of my forever favourite trilogies. #fantasy #books #bookworm

Flu ready! #flujab #vaccineswork

And- spoiler alert- further data showing more frequent association of women-gendered terms with stigmatising and blaming language, often in contravention of good practice guidelines about professional usages. Anyway- fab work @geekydr.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to meet IRL! 3/3

Fascinating! Also I refuse to use “childbearing age” 🤮

The #GenderBias continues with a plethora of terms codifying women by bodily functions (including the teeth-grindingly awful 'girls of childbearing age/potential') vs just 3 for men, none of which mention men's reproductive age/potential. C'mon @nicecomms.bsky.social , sort it out. 😵‍💫 2/3

Extraordinary presentation at #asme2025 by @geekydr.bsky.social looking at the language in NICE guidelines. Why *is* it that 'women' needs to be mentioned 377 times in guidelines about intra-partum care but 'men' only 3 times in guidelines about prostatism? #GenderBias #MedEd 1/3

We are working to improve access to reasonable adjustments for autistic and neurodivergent doctors. Want to know more? Read more about our disability equality work, including our webinar with Autistic Doctors International www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

"Autistic people actually can flourish in medicine, and are probably very common in medicine" Dr Seb Shaw and Dr Rosie Baruah share their experiences as autistic doctors and why more work is needed to challenge misconceptions. Read more 👉 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/lif...

Listen to the latest episode of The Doctor podcast, about supporting autistic patients - and getting certification from the National Autistic Society thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pod...

For #AutisticPrideDay, we’re celebrating the contributions of autistic doctors and the importance of inclusive practices for autistic doctors and patients. Read about Dr Cristina Costache’s experiences as an autistic doctor www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Proud of my April reading list✨ I think a personal record/month❤️ #bookworm #books

Made this for one of my dad’s doctors(I know her well and we both love Sailor Moon) #fanart #sailormoon #gastro My £2 crayons 😆

(1/2)Having to explain to your parent as a #doctor and daughter what his diagnosis of carcinomatosis is feels like a bigger stab than anything I’ve ever had. Knowing what will happen, having known it was this but needing a confirmation because you hoped it would be ok, no one

Anyone else feel like everything is just very heavy of aching? The hurt around is sometimes too much #hypersensitive #ND #poetry I just want to weep But I am stood frozen The hurt carving deep. Perfectly chosen My skin So paper thin Sipping The pigment of sorrow

🚨TODAY is the LAST DAY to stand for ARM in the Divisional (geographical) elections 🚨 ARM this year will elect 2 new Chief Officers and set the direction of the BMA. Like what your union is doing right now and want more? Stand! Want changes? Stand! www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/a...

@the-bma.bsky.social , how can we fund general practice appropriately?

@dauk-gp.bsky.social I’m sure this is on your radar. £5.25? How does this buy expert wound management, instead of coffee and a biscuit?

Been shared this by one of our Yorkshire GPs. @wesstreeting.bsky.social I might be a paediatrician but even I know that a PSA test costs £65-£120, so nowhere near £5.25. How are we expecting the screening of let’s say a third of the population to occur with only £5.25 per capita? #nhs

Grateful to Forbes including THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS on this list 💚 "Guenther challenges the conventional wisdom that the climate debate is simply a partisan issue, as both sides of the political spectrum often perpetuate fossil-fuel talking points."

✨Neurodivergent✨ 💭What people think they’ll see: lack of empathy, lack of imagination, poor eye contact 👀What they can actually see: lots of colour (I love wearing colours), masking ++ (I can read you well => that’s how I learn how to mask), bubbliness and creativity+++ #audhd #autism

Missed this at the time - such a thoughtful, measured & predictably wise piece from @pwhitakerwriter.bsky.social on assisted dying. www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

Watched Puss in Boots the last wish with my parents and forgot how much husband said I was like Perrito. A bit sad but wouldn’t have it otherwise☺️ Sadder how the awful life in medicine and trade unionism has tried hard (and nearly managed) to change me #pussinboots @dreamworksanim.bsky.social

November reads❤️mainly wholesome and all recommended ❤️ #books #bookworm #readingchallenge

🩺How to destroy a doctor who’s parent has cancer, psychologist edition: 🚪Call them into their parent’s psychology appointment and ask them to contribute in a professional capacity. 🥲Somehow I’m still in one piece, but I’ll cry for a whole day once I’m not near my dad.

What’s four Christmas movies to know you by? Last one isn’t Christmas related but it used to be on TV on Christmas for many years❤️

When abroad and #endometriosis is nasty, but you have 2 more options for pain relief that isn’t an opioid✨ hoping they help, forgot my TENS machine goddamn And no cat to act as hot water bottle either #pain #painrelief

In the week that MPs vote on assisted dying, please - please - can we all agree & act on the fact that the time to end the woeful underfunding of NHS palliative care is now? If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days. Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

So welcome to see @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social focusing on NHS cover-up culture & attacks on whistleblowers. I urge him to note how doctors (like me) raising sincere safety concerns about replacing doctors with PAs are being smeared & attacked by NHS bodies. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...