Ed Palmer

Digital literacy should really be a minimum requirement to run a country

This is actually a pretty good idea. It's become very trendy in recent years to install a wood burning stove. Which is idiotic. Massively increases indoor air pollution and contributes to local particulate emissions (amongst other things). We should look at this as we do smoking.

Writing to magazine editors about Christmas editions — Mums for Lungs Help us raise awareness with magazine editors that using images of stoves and fires in their magazines inadvertently promotes wood burning.

We know it’s the height of Summer, but interior magazine editors are currently planning their #Christmas editions. Can you write to them, asking them to consider not using images of blazing fires on their front covers or within features this year? #AirPollution #WoodBurning

Lol. Added benefit that you can skip the sauna as well.

I've kept them since I was 11ish? Suddenly not looking so lame lol

Its come to my attention that pokemon cards are valuable again? I have the entire original run, including all holographics in an original presentation folder. Pretty much all in mint condition. Does anyone know how I can go about getting them valued?

I occasionally get asked why I chose medicine as a career. Easy answer. 50% following my brother whom I adore. 50% @robertpicardo.bsky.social who was the best doctor in starfleet. Naturally I didn't say this in my interview, but on reflection, I wish I had!

Of all the bad medical takes, this is one of the worst. Well played bad medical takes... Well played.

Oooph I'm counting 18 hospital moves for me 😉 still insane numbers.

Depends how you count. Department, vs hospital vs trust. I chose the upper most number of course 😂 but I had to do all the specialty rotations twice because my anaesthetic rotations weren't counted by my ICM CCT. Which really elevates the count.

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I suppose I was referring to the general concept, and more broadly about going where you are told to go in a militaristic way, rather than applying to a hospital directly. But I take your point and fully agree that hyper rotation is the worst of the worst.

Let those who follow put down roots and feel secure and valued.

Ultimately, I think it is an approach from a now distant past and doesn't serve anyone particularly well anymore. We need to move forward and reshape medical training in the UK. Rationalising rotation to its natural minimum for those who come next seems like the right thing to me to do.

As I come to the end of my training, and my 27th and final rotation, I have reflected on this rotational aspect. It has made me extremely adaptable and provided a rich background of experience. But equally, it has broken me, prevented me from creating the social connections that are so... human.

WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

Who was it that described “Shrodinger’s resident doctor”?

Too important to strike, yet as an “apprentice” not important enough to pay properly …

For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

Please stop using chatGPT in clinical contexts. If you don't know the answer, check a reputable source or ask a colleague. ChatGPT is absolute medical garbage and not safe to use in this context.

“I Am the Gap Between Knowing and Saying”: The En Dash Responds to the Em Dash NOTE: This is a direct response to this monologue, which we ran last week. - - -I never wanted this. I was happy to serve—between dates, between ci...

Last week, Em Dash had some things to say. Now, it's En Dash's turn. What's your move, Elipsis?

Chasing lactate with fluid boluses in a patient with [other stuff than true, absolute, hypovolemia] is probably useless, deleterious...and dumb

Exceptional

Agreed. Me too. But I have some legacy work still in latex that it's probably not worth switching.

Bluey is life

I really truly dislike latex. The sooner I can completely remove it from all workflows the better.

Eric topol cutting through pseudoscience. Lol. 😂 I suppose a broken clock is right twice a day.

I would love to do more long distance stuff. As my kids get older I'm starting to feel like I may have more time for this sort of thing.

What's your recovery routine? And how are your feet?

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Fantastic effort. 💪

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.

It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.