Michelle Connolly

Agree the section on “streamlining medical education” was particularly good. I have a started a med ed role and was astounded to hear that today’s medical students don’t use textbooks in the way we did. They use apps and websites.

Why Britain's doctors are in revolt To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...

Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social

The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Posterior-Wall Myocardial Infarction | NEJM A 60-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with acute chest pain. Initial electrocardiography was suggestive of posterior-wall ischemia. An ECG performed with the use of posterior le...

Here’s the link www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I think they are invited reports rather than unsolicited. E.g I remember a case of a straightforward posterior STEMI a few years ago that wouldn’t have got into any other case report journal.

One of our equally tall ones today finally corrected a clock that was still stuck in BST!

BMA organisational submission to - Change NHS: A health service fit for the future.

The Government must put valuing doctors at the heart of its 10 Year Health Plan.

We're calling for commitments to pay restoration, removing pensions disincentives and protecting the role of the doctor.

Read our submission to the Change NHS consultation: www.bma.org.uk/media/nhib2t...

Once Burned, Twice Shy, Cardiologists Ditch X for Bluesky Though X (formerly Twitter) was once a place many cardiologists found community and opportunity, many are jumping ship.

Once Burned, Twice Shy, Cardiologists Ditch X for Bluesky 🦋

A very nice piece by @yaelmaxwell.bsky.social @tctmd.bsky.social on our effort to rebuild our #CardioSky community on 🦋. Thank you Yael & TCTMD for your support.
@erinmichos.bsky.social @load-dependent.bsky.social
bit.ly/313Plxt

“Who is heard and who is not heard maintains the status quo”

Note how quickly people move to silence or undermine folk who speak up

If your gut instinct is to immediately defend a misogynist +/- sexist +/- toxic individual, ask yourself why

#Masterchef #GregWallace #GetInTheSea

So Greg Wallace gets fired from Master Chef. Good riddance Wallace… you humiliated my wife when she was on the show but you cut that bit out didn’t you? You’re a tubby, bald-headed, ill mannered bully. Karma got ya. Sir Rod Stewart.

Sir Rod Stewart has just shared this about Gregg Wallace on Instagram

Which his wife *will* have on the table for him 🙄

A letter from the BMA to the GMC's Charlie Massey, calling for GMC transparency on PA scope of practice.

Doctors deserve to know the GMC's position on Royal College scope of practice proposals for Physician Associates (PAs).

Following a refusal to disclose its submissions, we have written to the GMC calling for full transparency.

Surprised this isn’t written by Nick Triggle.

Australia wants to ban kids from social media. Will it work? The government has just tabled laws to block access to under-16s - but the proposal is divisive.

An excellent idea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A collage of performers including a brown woman with her arms folded, a white woman with short hair and green jumper, a white man in a waistcoat holding out his hands, a white man with short brown hair smiling, a white woman with pink hair biting into a biscuit, a white woman with blue hair holding a star, a brown man in a regal outfit in a picture frame, a white woman with yellow wellies smiling, and a white woman and two white men looking at the camera.

Our lineup includes:
@robeastaway.bsky.social
@medcrisis.bsky.social
@marinemumbles.bsky.social
@helenarney.bsky.social
@standupmaths.bsky.social
Steve Mould
Subhadra Das
Bec Hill
Katie Steckles
Gemma Arrowsmith
Seb Lee-Delisle

And maybe some surprises too!

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