@aliblipcdoc.bsky.social
Palliative/Supportive care physician. Pain med, rural hlth, renal supportive care. Safety of Drs & med students. Prioritise kindness, compassion & integrity. ID doc hubby. Views own. RT≠agreement. Live in rural NSW.
"We don't have a shortage of supply. We have a glut of greed."
“According to the Australia Institute, around 30% of all gas exported from Australia is not needed to meet contract commitments.”
Great seeing @edhusicmp.bsky.social quoting our research in Parliament yesterday! 👏 #auspol
“Over the past 25 years the problem hasn’t been the supply of homes. It’s been the supply of homes for people who want to own and live in them,” writes Richard Dennis, co-CEO of The Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4lmfdcV
I don't understand how people advocate for inclusion by excluding some other group.
Women are women, dammit.
Blak women are women
Disabled women are women
Muslim women are women
Working women are women
Trans women are women
The butchest woman you've ever met is still a woman.
Simples. #IWD26✊️
Former Labor, now Independent, Senator Fatima Payman should get bonus hazard pay for having to sit this close to racist stupidity in the Senate chamber. #auspol
"COVID-19 has been the leading cause of acute respiratory infection related mortality across the majority of 2023–2025. In 2025 the number of deaths involving COVID-19 (both due to and with) exceeded the number of deaths involving influenza."
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVER
Thank you Dr Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social for amplifying #GamblingHarm as a #PublicHealth issue.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
NSW Health has now closed 79 illegal tobacco shops for 3 months, with rate accelerating. This list updated Fridays. Many of these will not re-open to start illegal selling again as protocols involve unannounced re-checking & whopping fines for re-offenders www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Page...
This is worth talking about. Great study and a potential game changer. #cdiff #IDsky #medsky
Kazemipour et al. examined the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on attentional performance among patients with fibromyalgia and found attentional performance improved over time, regardless of the treatment group. Learn more in #PainReports bit.ly/3MxZsmq
Anorexia-Cachexia causes appetite loss, weight/muscle loss, and worse outcomes. Addressing metabolism, nutrition impact symptoms, and inactivity needs an interdisciplinary team. Specialized nutrition rehab and cachexia clinics improve care
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41693023/
Sex differences in pain duration
Finding interleukin-10 from monocytes as an/the explanation (in the experimental model and people
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Anorexia–cachexia in cancer involves metabolic and inflammatory drivers not fixed by nutrition alone. Interdisciplinary care, symptom management, and specialized nutrition rehabilitation and cachexia clinics may improve treatment and integration of new therapies
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41693023/
A psychedelic quickly reduced depression (in patients with major depression disorder) in a small, double-blind placebo randomized trial
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plus a new review on the science of psychedelic medicine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Listening to a research talk on GLP-1 meds and impact on body composition and muscle health by Renee Rogers, PhD, FACSM. I appreciate her starting the talk centering patients and framing the talk discussing weight bias. She shares these two resources:
www.obesityaction.org
stopweightbias.com
Slayed the pancreatic cancer beast and final treatment. Unfortunately it's left me quite unwell and my immune system suppressed. Take the good with the bad. Immunotherapy continues to hold stage 4 colon at bay.
Our highest loyalty doesn't belong to people or parties. It belongs to principles.
If you wouldn't accept it from your opponents, you shouldn't accept it from your allies.
Integrity is standing by your values even when your own group violates them.
Went to put the recycling in the bin. Discovered a Tawny Frogmouth.
Did someone solve the healthcare worker shortage in rural and regional areas while I wasn't watching? Why would anyone think this is a good idea?
So doctors, nurses and healthcare practitioners are the ‘bad’ migrants??? They are making no sense (well less sense than usual)
I live in Farrer.
My GP is Syrian and my specialist is Chinese.
I spent some time in hospital last year and was cared for by people from a wide range of backgrounds.
It beggars belief that people hold these views. They are utterly destructive and will decimate regional and rural healthcare
You know what to comment.
Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/13/a...
Read more: theshovel.com.au/2026/02/12/l...
We used to think that the benefit of GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic) was dependent on weight loss.
Now we know so many health benefits have little to do with that!
Today's report: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The cure for ignorance is not information. It's humility and curiosity.
Facts can be easily dismissed. What motivates people to gain insight is recognizing gaps in their understanding and wanting to find out more.
The root of lifelong learning is knowing how little we know.
Charisma is overvalued. Character is undervalued.
This may be worth considering in Cövid heart disease?? 🧐🧐🤷🏻♂️
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41648933/
POTS review: ‘Patients who have been inappropriately labelled with psychiatric diagnoses throughout their diagnostic journey of many years can describe the effect of being believed as “lifechanging”’ www.heartlungcirc.org/article/S144...
