Dr Fleurs du Mal

A small music venue just wants to keep the heat pump going. Darkroom can survive, say the owners of the much-loved Ōtautahi space, "if we can just get through this winter".

It is a belief in community & creativity driving independent live music venues to continually navigate brutal hurdles: COVID, cost-of-living, & a fast changing city

Independent music venues deserve acknowledgement
Those 1 or 2 big nights per month sustain a massive ecosystem

Same waka
In it for ♥️

Just finished my first set of night shifts as a doctor, covering general surgery/urology/vascular surgery/neurosurgery with only a gen surg registrar on site 🥲

Don't look away

A screengrab of the Anatomy and Pathology Museum's online library

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Tell me about it … 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Sláinte!

As the Leng review starts to wind up, I remind you of the systematic review done by myself and @martinmckee.bsky.social earlier this year. No evidence of efficacy in most roles PAs are currently deployed in, no direct evidence of safety, no evidence of cost-effectiveness. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

beautiful moko kauae and also a beautiful head torch

Had a week of leave and then returned to a post long weekend long day and 😳🥵😵‍💫😵‍💫

Thames Water: big bonuses due from emergency £3bn loan ‘withdrawn’ Environment secretary makes announcement after company’s chair said he ‘may have misspoken’ to MPs

No bonus for the execs who gave us the choice of swimming in sh*t or not swimming at all. Good.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Civility as a Weapon: The Performance of Power Respectability politics and the suppression of resistance

Civility as a Weapon: The Performance of Power

I took my ranty bluesky posts and turned them into something longer, more thoughtful, and which really digs into the way in which civility is weaponised to silence dissent

open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Civilised:
- stealing land, not giving it back
- legislating inequity
- child poverty/suicide rates among the highest in the world
- ignoring our most vulnerable

Uncivilised:
- doing a haka in parliament

...okay. 😒

generous.

imagine trying to walk w a calf bone

I love RDOs and thank the Union (Resident Doctors Association) for ensuring they exist. Do you know how much life admin you can get done ?! Miraculous.

would u go tibia for shin tho? 🧐

end of next year 🤞🤞🤞

i’m moving

I like to send my australian friends photos of the smal spiders in my room i am scared of

BOA comment on Times article 01 May The Times article 'Virginia Giuffre’s last home was a retreat from the torment...' published 01 May reinforces damaging stereotypes and disregards the growing number of highly skilled female orthopae...

Go Mark of the British Orthopaedic Association! www.boa.ac.uk/resource/boa...

It’s extremely tiring dying on every single hill, but all the hills add up and on my death bed I do not want to be ruminating on the time I didn’t stand up.

Brooke!

www.bmj.com/content/383/...

I could honestly do with more Helpful Dad energy in the medical setting.

Where are all the other orthopaedic surgeons who could chat to me about their wing recipe while I hold a retractor?

The best online account I have seen recently is this Seattle orthopaedic surgeon whose entire instagram feed js him cooking for his family

Probably a PM with initials CL.

U just know some people would though …

@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Thank you for your earlier letter to the NZMJ - alas.