So true.
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The care at has been incredible. So much skill and empathy delivered with a great dose of kiwi humour.
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Today after my 80-year-old mum had been seen by 4 ICU nurses, 3 surgeons, 2 ICU doctors, and a physio she said: “I’ve figured out why some people have trouble accessing healthcare in NZ. It’s because all the clinicians are in here spending far too much time worrying about me.”
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I’m glad many are speaking up… “Australian research recently published in the MJA shows female doctors take their own lives at 227 per cent the rate of the general population. Male doctors commit suicide at 141 per cent the rate of other Australians.”
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Not really where I had planned to spend my weekend. But here we are. Thank you to for the incredible level of nursing, physiotherapy, surgical, and ICU care being provided to my family member.
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"How will we ever know if we have a pandemic of micro-emboli if we don’t look? " An important case study to learn from. #longcovidkids
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1/ #LongCovid a case study we should learn from
- 14 years old. Covid October 2020. Develops a fast heart rate and chest pain. 
- 7 MONTHS later is admitted to hospital for investigations.
- what follows is a stream of normal results
bloods/CT chest/cardiac MRI/ECG…
- 7 MONTHS later is admitted to hospital for investigations.
- what follows is a stream of normal results
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A skill shortage they say! Just dropped some supplies to Iraqi detainee who is an engineer and can’t work as one here. Planning to move to Canada after 9 yrs on Nauru! We can do better. Thanks for the intro
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My dad’s mobile phone message says: “I’m sorry I’m not home at the moment. Please leave a message”. It makes me smile every time.
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This is what happens when public health officials play Omicron as "mild" COVID-19.
If public health, the press, & the general public acknowledged morbidities from COVID rather than just emphasizing mortality, maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't be in this mess now.
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Wait. What happened in the past year? How much did it deteriorate?
Let's look at the Swiss health insurer's, CSS', health study published today. 
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Its 'Be Kind to Medical Scientists Day'-NHMRC investigator grants will be announced. 85% of Australia's best scientists will need a hug (> for female scientists). I've warned my boss I'll likely need copious amounts of reassurance that I AM a valid human-Good luck all.
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First ever meeting of Australasian Women in Academic Psychiatry today. Fabulous chance to reconnect with some of my favourite colleagues including and and to meet women I’ve admired from afar including Helen Hermann, Helen Milroy, and Megan Galbally.
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I have a friend in regional Victoria who rang to make an appointment with her GP. Next available appt 13 December!
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I’ve been in recovery for 19+ years. What saved me? First, access to clean needles. Second, MAT (medicated assisted treatment) to help with detox. Third, people who loved me even when I was at my worst.
Harm reduction reduces harm. It’s that simple.
#OverdoseAwarenessDay
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I am proud to be on the Board of this great charity raising funds to support prevention and treatment of fistula. All donations today are doubled making ever more impact!
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Heartbreakingly Dr Lau has been found deceased.
Big love to her family and friends
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"We don't want to talk about it. We don't want to mainstream it. This idea this is a 'special' group of people. They're not"
Exactly my experience.
'They' are you and I.
#stopthestigma
#rethinkaddiction
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It’s a fallacy that a lack of bulk billing for emergency care is filling our EDs
We need to accept that it’s a lack of accessible primary preventative holistic care, ignored for years and neglected in the pandemic, that’s caused an escalation of illness now needed urgent care.
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NSW and Victoria announce 50 free urgent care clinics to counter bulk-billing shortfall theguardian.com/australia-news via @GuardianAus
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Urgent Care Centres sound like they will recruit GPs into well-paid, relatively straightforward work. But, so much of the value in primary care is continuity, understanding, community connection and care coordination. Will GPs in UCCs do this invaluable work?
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We’re waiting for a new kitchen to be installed and in the meantime my husband has nailed the old kitchen to the balcony as a temporary place to cook and I kind of like it.
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An outstanding paper from Natasha Mulvihill: “Professional authority and sexual coercion: A paradigmatic case study of doctor abuse”. sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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Hard to believe that I can be seeing patients in clinic one minute and at home looking out at this view seven minutes later. Rural medicine rocks!
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"It's the most extreme heat event ever recorded in world history. For more than 70 days, the intense heat has blasted China's population, factories and fields. Lakes and rivers have dried up. Crops have been killed. Factories have been closed."
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Courage says "I will not let the fact that I cannot do everything keep me from doing what I can"
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We're making it free to study to become a nurse or midwife in Victoria.
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Get it right for the most vulnerable, get it right for everyone. Get it right for an elite few, get it right for an elite few. - Angela Glover Blackwell of re using radical imagination to create an equitable future for all #Greenlining25
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It seems that safety to exist without abuse is privilege afforded to not women.
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I had a lovely evening in Canberra as the guest speaker at a Travelling Scholar dinner. Until I was waiting for an Uber outside the venue and a car full of drunk men catcalled me and told me to get in their car. A nearly 50 year old Professor wearing a suit. When does this end?
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The high locum rates is unsustainable for health system . It heavily encourages episodic casual work so continuity of care suffers .ultimately this will lead to poorer outcomes & more health costs . System needs reform in a big way
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Panel Discussion: Impact of medico-legal processes on the health of doctors Registration, Wed 07/09/2022 at 5:30 pm | Eventbrite with and the CEO OF #medtwitter
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Thank you and the wonderful psychiatrists of Canberra for hosting me as your 2022 Travelling Scholar. It’s been a wonderful few days of rich conversations and new friendships.
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I’ll be there!
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Join us @unimelb on Wed 7 Sep at 5.30pm for an insightful panel discussion exploring the psychological and emotional impact of regulatory processes on the wellbeing, treatment and recovery of doctors with health conditions. Register here: go.unimelb.edu.au/3ppe
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So excited for this event. The Collaboration for Better Health and Regulation is covering such interesting ground. Great work!
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I don’t have small children anymore so I can wear a white pantsuit out to dinner. But I still have vivid memories of having small children, so when I wear my white pantsuit I carry a back-up clean dress and some wet-wipes in my handbag. Is this a phase that will pass?
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We would love you to join us if you’re free
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I’m excited to be chairing this panel on the impact of regulation on the health of doctors as part the Collaborative for Better Health and Regulation. We’re delighted to welcome , the CEO of , and as our panellists.
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