Kevin F McCarthy

Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority

Job Fairy: Paediatric Pain Specialist in Auckland, NZ.
Apply for my job & tell me what my colleagues say about me after I leave 😊
jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
#pain #paediatric #NewZealand

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

Saturdays at work be like…

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health - NAM The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has launched a new series of monthly discussions to help members of the public navigate many of the complex health

Great new resource now that CDC cannot be fully trusted.

National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health

nam.edu/news-and-ins...

The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**

🎼 'Six Lords a-leaping'

'In February 2024, UKLFI celebrated the cancellation of a community kite-making workshop, citing claims that the children’s event was “reminiscent of 7 October paragliders”.'

Six of its nine patrons currently sit in the House of Lords'

novaramedia.com/2025/07/28/m...

Editorial: Translating regional anaesthesia training into clinical impacts: is good instructional design good enough?

#RASky #AnSky #MedSky

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I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽

Honey and analgesia

2 - 3 doses daily of oral honey/placebo in children post-tonsillectomy for 7 days, in addition to regular paracetamol, ibuprofen & as required oxycodone did not result in a clinical improvement in pain or recovery over a 14-day follow-up period.

#AnSky

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Statement from Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust about measles - Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust Statement from Alder Hey about media interest in cases of measles

A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

I'm begging everyone who hasn't yet to read this book. The premise, about a man living in an infinite house, is terrifically inventive, and it goes in a direction you don't expect. No other living author writes with such a keen sense of horror & beauty. The book of the decade.

Nazis murdered my family in the Holocaust. Now Germany is punishing me for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has…

"On Wednesday, July 30, I stood trial in a German court for my opposition to genocide."

"A Jewish descendant of those murdered by Nazis, I am being labeled antisemitic for speaking out against the mass murder, the genocide of Palestinians."
#Germany #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Genocide

Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

Yes! For ex-prems, even into adulthood. “Fine until you do something to them” 😌

Sinead O Connor vs Joy Division - The Joy Is Getting Married (Phil RetroSpector mashup) Sinead O' Connor vs Joy Division as imagined by Phil RetroSpector

Sublime 👌😘
Sinead O Connor vs Joy Division - The Joy Is Getting Married (Phil RetroSpector mashup) by Phil RetroSpector on #SoundCloud
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Context matters, my friend. There are no absolutes in medicine

As I tell trainees “Propofol fixes everything in paediatric anaesthesia, apart from hypotension” so an ‘emergency Propofol’ for all lists. Dilute adrenaline (10mcg/ml) for high-risk emergency cases (sick neonates, significant URTI, likely to brady..)

Done

Done

Just donated. I hope you stay safe 🙏

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza .رسالة مفتوحة إلى فريق بلوسكاي بشأن تعاملهم مع الفلسطينيين في غزة Please review the open letter here and include your name below (if you are better known on Bluesky by your handle you could use that or add it to your name.) Thank you so much for caring about this co...

This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:

"Microsoft, for example, cancelled the Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider" - they're making Proton sound bad :(
Flippancy aside, the general US trend is to dissolve the world's legal framework.

Absolute bonkers. Labour have taken leave of its senses. The social care sector is on its arse already due to a lack of capacity.

No flow to social care sector = No NHS activity.

US has pushed some nations facing tariffs imposed by Trump to approve Musk's Starlink, WaPo reported on Wednesday, citing State Dep cables.

The cables show how US embassies and the dep pushed countries to clear hurdles for satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name, the Post reported.

Systematic reviews are just as flawed as any other body of research if not more so.

A gold-standard systematic review may be the best source of evidence on a topic matter, but a bad one can be INCREDIBLY misleading.