Hester Wilson

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia

National consensus statement on opioid agonist treatment in custodial settings

✍️ Jocelyn Chan, Jon Cook, Michael Curtis, Adrian J Dunlop, Ele Morrison, Suzanne Nielsen, Rebecca J Winter and Thileepan Naren

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Happy International Women's Day. May we challenge the systems that undervalue us, overwork us and keep us "lesser than". And may one day, Medicare pay me as much as the taciturn man-doc in the room next door.

#genderpaygap #medicare #medsky #slowmedicine

@racgp.bsky.social

“The Whole Structure Is Knackered, It Could Still Explode, It Really Could”: A Mixed Methods Study of Initiatives to Increase General Practitioner Prescribing in an Opioid Dependence Treatment Progra... Opioid dependence is a chronic health condition with significant public health implications. Opioid dependence treatment (ODT) has evolved considerably over tim...

My latest publication - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is one (of many) reasons why I love my 1996 #Landcruiser

Could the media please stop breathlessly reporting the "growing cost" of the #NDIS? This is a vile IPA/LNP/NewsCorp message. It treats Australians with disabilities as a "burden" on society. [This headline is from 2018. That's how long they've been pushing this grubby narrative.] 😠 #auspol

Once more, for the folks at the back:

Children are not widgets.

Schools are not factories.

Education is not a business.

Saving money is not the ultimate goal of education.

Education is an INVESTMENT in our collective future.

#OntEd

If this is true - that "unhurried conversations are a fulcrum around which effective health care operates" - (spoiler: It is definitely true) - then Medicare is an incentive to the enshittification of health care in Australia.

NSW to trial pill testing at music festivals in 2025 The Minns Labor Government will commence a music festival-based pill testing trial in early 2025, to reduce risks and harms associated with illicit drug use.

Such good news

www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...

Great news!!!

If Gina owned the sun,
Dutton would support solar.
#auspol #nuclear #renewables #energy #fossilfuels #ClimateAction

Not sure any of these would really be suitable for dancing - likely to be uncomfortable to stand or walk in for any length of time - let alone dancing…..

A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year fighting for drug policies based in evidence, health, equity, and human rights"

A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year helping us fight for a public health approach to drugs"

A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year advocating for options, not judgement, for people who use drugs"

A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year fighting drug policies that punish people, block care, and waste money"

How did you spend your year? Let us know down below ⬇️

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose.

Other signs of his alcoholism included dizziness and chronic reckless behavior.

This is really interesting, but completely focussed on the individual.
No mention of food security, employment, housing, poverty.
"Lifestyle therapy" can surely only work where you have favourable social determinants of health.

Teens who met in Ukrainian hospital after Putin bombed their homes have a message for the world Vika Zadnipryana and Nastia Shadura became amputees when Putin's Russian military hit their homes with missiles. They struck up a friendship while recovering in a hospital, which was also dealing with...

Russian war crimes, too. What a world we live in.

‘Drugs are bad becomes people who use drugs are bad’ NSW Drug Summit 2024. ‘I worry that people will find out - I become Megan the drug user, this robs us of our humanity, you can’t help but absorb this shame…the fundamental sense of being wrong and not belonging…’ Megan Moses

NSW Drug Summit 2024.Prof Dan Howard

Hon Mark Butler MP speaking at GP24, ‘too many Australians are finding it too hard to get into see a GP’ he says the government has a laser light focus on this, increasing bulk billing rates, increasing doctor numbers with increased overseas trained doctors working in Australia, and mymedicare

Dr Nicole Higgins- addressing GP24- General Practice is the beating heart of the Australian Health System @racgp.bsky.social