I think I'm allowed a moment of mumsie nostalgia when it feels like we were teaching a toddler how to count not so long ago, and now he's eyerolling me. 'Actually Mum, this is the SIMPLE part of my job'.

I may have cried a little www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The future of surgery! Very impressed by med students competing in regional finals towards the @racsurgeons.bsky.social surgical skills competition later this year. Thank you Surgia @griffith.edu.au and Bond University Surgical Society for slick organisation (and lovely gifts 🤗🙏). #MedEd

I have an aspiring surgeon in my teen textiles class. Her needlework is indeed very fine indeed. And her drawings have anatomical accuracy as well.

'If we continue to pathologise training, we may narrow the moral and imaginative space of their chosen profession. Trainees are not flattened by training; they are transformed by it- sometimes painfully, often imperfectly, but almost always meaningfully.' #MedEd

I did not know that radiation safety recommendations for pregnancy require thicker lead shielding than our usual theatre lead gowns. 🤯 Or that *men* planning to conceive should avoid HIPEC components as much as women. Much to think about- and act on- to make our workplaces safer.

I love looking at the work of the fashion design school in the same building as @racsurgeons.bsky.social QLD offices. Wonder what they make of our surgical displays? We share the same themes of cutting and stitching after all. 🤗♥️

I see range of doctors because their lived experience influences their care. When i absolutely need to get back on my feet quickly I see a doctor from the “third world” because they get it done. Strangely my body is about the same as they are used to.

Hanson is an idiot and a national embarrassment. Australia is SO lucky to have so many exceptional doctors from around the world

🎯 Rhea

I'm not a supporter of mandated military service, but sometimes I really do think we'd have a more stable and peaceful society if we had a mandated year living on a pension instead, with strict rules against using inherited wealth or family social capital (eg.'volunteer' roles in family business).

I'm indignant on behalf of UK immigrant doctors, who make up nearly 20% of 'overseas doctors' in Australia, and generally speak VERY good English.

👏👍 Excellent new (US) Commission on Cancer quality threshold of 70% for #BreastCancer operation within 60 days of diagnosis for operative non-neoadjuvant cases, *including* reconstructive cases. Wonder how Australian centres would measure up? journals.lww.com/journalacs/c...

Always stunned at the preponderance of gun violence in the US. They accounted for 31% of this sequential prospective study of peripheral cannulation success in trauma resuscitation across 19 centres. 147 (!) events in just 12 months. 😱 #ThisIsOurLane

'...kindness is not a courtesy but a clinical discipline and form of leadership...Kindness under pressure is not instinctive; it is chosen.' Highly recommend this wise and work-relevant article from the excellent Carlton Irving. #OperateWithRespect onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Politicians tend to govern as if they will never grow old themselves & need assistance in old age/ debility. Is it because they know that they will have enough wealth not to need the services that the public hopes to have? Same with housing. When you have several houses homelessness isn’t a problem.

the thing is this is a demographic issue that has been known for DECADES ...our govts have failed to prepare for this despsite endless warnings..... grrrrrrrrrr

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The irony of a call to address ageism by focusing on 'problems' of an ageing population. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Boo #ImplicitBias and deficit language.👎 How about reframing those 'problems' as how we support elders' basic human rights to benefit from their ongoing contributions? #StrengthsBased

An where's the vietnamese banh bao?

This is AI slop. My very human take: pffft, even a pop tart is a dumpling. And anyway, where's the original British suet dumpling?!

Sorting through my late grandma's wool stash. Found a set of crochet/macrame figures no more than 10cm/4 inches high. Not quite sure what to make of it. 😶

Slight diminish a book: Wuthering Mids

Starting the Aussie day with a med ed community of practice exploring the gap between teaching and learning and someone goes 'look at the US, decades of civics ed and there are still people surprised when electoral choices actually impact their lives' ...and no-one had any comeback.😥

excellent and yes! i don't care if you hold horrible views privately - i just don't need to hear them said in my presence

Ooh. #ItMe! On the Gold Coast Health 🏳️‍🌈 flag. #IDAHOBIT 🎉 www.facebook.com/reel/8479659...

This is an excellent idea! The time-based model needs to go away.

As if people believe it or it gets prosecuted even with a baby. They’d probably hold it against you for having the baby too. Must mean you consented. Remember “the body has a way to shut all that down.” Mormons would rather have you home in a body bag having fought to the death.

22 nil at halftime #NRLWarriorsBroncos! Up the Wahs! #ProudKiwi 🤗

Wonderfuly clear ruling- that anyone is entitled to hold privately transphobic views, but to repeatedly misgender someone on the basis of those views is 'gratuitous, disrespectful and unnecessary', and did not advance the defense. A win for basic manners. 👏🏳️‍⚧️

Not Alone - McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Two volcanic islands rest in a sea of gold, beneath layers of light and mountain peaks. Look closely: there are orcas in the water and birds in the sky. This landscape is alive. #photography #landscape #antarctica

Gosh the garden is beautiful with some overnight rain still clinging to it. 🤗♥️ #Gardening

Women have to give birth otherwise the human race would die out- we can't ban pregnancy. But we *could* ban men from scaffolds, bicycles and motorcycles, the same as we ban under-16s from social media. Because preventable harm etc etc #LiesDamnLiesAndStatistics #KneeJerkSimplisticLinearCausality

What a joy to help judge the annual emergency medicine comp between Bond University, @griffith.edu.au, UQ and @jcuofficial.bsky.social. It started with a keynote from Dr Bhavik Patel and ended with UQ taking the win. A huge effort from organisers, competitors, judges, patient actors, and sponsors. 🎉

Sunshine after the rain! The hint of a faint double rainbow, and the world upside-down in a droplet. 🤗♥️ #Gardening

HT @stationmum.bsky.social for this #Crochet classic 🤣👍🧶

Promotion-in-Place (PIP) makes a lot of sense- competency-based, supports the crucial trainee to attending/ consultant transition, less disruptive for family, and workforce retention for the org. I'm keen to see how the pilot goes! 🙏Jennifer La Femina + team #MedEd

I had a most excellent mug for my meetings today 🤗👊

'We shouldn't offer abortion to rape victims because the paternity test on the baby is good evidence for the court case' is the stupidest argument for forced birth I've ever heard. You need an actual BABY to prove he did it? #BelieveHer 😡

In the same way Tetris now has nostalgic cult status, one day we're going to reminisce about the early AI image generators for their poetic... um, 'beauty'. 😆

Costs doubled and the original verdict strengthened to DIRECT discrimination rather than indirect discrimination. Exclusion of trans women on Aussie dating sites is ILLEGAL. (As it should be). 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊️

Read the whole wonderful thread if you can. 🎨💅🥖✍️ AI-driven education is not a patch on the impact a single inspired (human) professor can make. 😍

He really knows how to appeal to the voter base doesn't he? Because of course I came here for the welfare. 🙄 (Kiwis can't access welfare in Australia, btw, let alone anyone else- but facts never seem to matter to him).

I hate it at lunchtime when Bluesky becomes all: Ex Baseball coach Chuck Brad III appointed Governor, makes arming teachers with sub machine guns mandatory and declares sandwiches woke.

'Resistance to teaching social justice in medical education is not simply a matter of individual preference or ignorance—it is socially organised and structurally reinforced.' 👏Allison Brown and team for highlighting why 'more training' isn't the solution. #SystemicBias #MedSky

Same in my family. My grandchildren talk about it and told us that the teachers in primary and high school are using AI. Appalling.

I’m sorry to hear that . I went to a one off Halloween gig “Danse Macabre” by Duran Duran last year - my wife is a huge fan - and whilst it was a superb gig , all the backing videos were AI slop - which really disappointed me - not least as performers and crew lost out in employment.

Yess! Even as a white person I’ve been asking that since I was a young teen. Medicine of today deserves 👏🏽👏🏽 for lots of stuff and equipment but is is remarkably arrogant overall.

Utterly delighted to hear that Jasmina Kevric, an amazing human and breast surgeon, has received the Les Murray Award @unhcr.org for service to refugees. 🎉🎉🎉 www.unrefugees.org.au/news-and-sto...

I was concerned my kids (16 and 19) would get sucked in, but if anything they (and their friends) are more disdainful than I am. Phew... (And yes, I am constantly disappointed by otherwise seemingly intelligent adults of my acquaintance who now seem to be outsourcing all their thinking to LLMs...)