@drhesterwilson.bsky.social
GP, addiction medicine, FRACGP, FAChAM, singer, mum, wife, speaker, activist and optimist. Interested in better health outcomes for all, end of stigma, EBM, music. All thoughts my own.
π NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia
National consensus statement on opioid agonist treatment in custodial settings
βοΈ Jocelyn Chan, Jon Cook, Michael Curtis, Adrian J Dunlop, Ele Morrison, Suzanne Nielsen, Rebecca J Winter and Thileepan Naren
OPEN ACCESS buff.ly/jNuWZVb
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
My latest publication - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
14.01.2025 09:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is one (of many) reasons why I love my 1996 #Landcruiser
05.01.2025 21:39 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
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.] π #auspol
04.01.2025 13:28 β π 408 π 113 π¬ 49 π 19Once 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.
18.12.2024 20:52 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 2 π 1
Such good news
www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
Great news!!!
12.12.2024 10:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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 dancingβ¦..
08.12.2024 01:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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 β¬οΈ
06.12.2024 17:21 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Rudolph 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.
βDrugs are bad becomes people who use drugs are badβ NSW Drug Summit 2024. βI worry that people will find out - I become Megan the drug user, this robs us of our humanity, you canβt help but absorb this shameβ¦the fundamental sense of being wrong and not belongingβ¦β Megan Moses
04.12.2024 23:31 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
NSW Drug Summit 2024.Prof Dan Howard
04.12.2024 23:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hon Mark Butler MP speaking at GP24, βtoo many Australians are finding it too hard to get into see a GPβ 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
22.11.2024 01:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dr Nicole Higgins- addressing GP24- General Practice is the beating heart of the Australian Health System @racgp.bsky.social
21.11.2024 01:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
