New poem out in the European association of palliative care blog:
eapcnet.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/my-โฆ
#Caring #poetrycommunity #POEMS
@joehawkins.bsky.social
Palliative medicine doc, can be found at thepalliativedoctor.co.uk . Lover of great care. Views my own.
New poem out in the European association of palliative care blog:
eapcnet.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/my-โฆ
#Caring #poetrycommunity #POEMS
New article: challenging medical disinformation with a smile:
eapcnet.wordpress.com
New blog dropped!
Have we re-named getting old?
thepalliativedoctor.co.uk/new-blogs
#NHS #PalliativeCare #geriatrics #creative
Feeling reflective at Easter? Try poems to make you feel:
thepalliativedoctor.co.uk/early-poems
#NHS #PEOLC #poem #poems #thinking
Iโm excited to share a new project:
thepalliativedoctor.co.uk
A site created for clinicians supporting people through serious illness โ with practical tools, humorous looks at medicine and palliative care, communication tips.
#PalliativeCare #MedTwitter #NHS
Have you seen this yet?- new blog!
Dealing with death.
I have made the decision to publish my own website where I will keep a library of old and most importantly new content- articles, information and poems. To start off- try this one:
thepalliativedoctor.co.uk/dealing-with-dโฆ
#NHS #PEOLC
Have you seen this yet?- new blog!
Dealing with death.
I have made the decision to publish my own website where I will keep a library of old and most importantly new content- articles, information and poems. To start off- try this one:
thepalliativedoctor.co.uk/dealing-with-dโฆ
#NHS #PEOLC
Please take a look, share it with colleagues, and let me know what youโd like to see added.
Iโll keep updating it based on feedback.
thepalliativedoctor.co.uk
#FOAMed #EOLC #PallCare
Itโs especially useful for:
โข Junior doctors
โข GPs
โข Nurses & AHPs
โข Anyone caring for patients near the end of life
Iโm excited to share a new project:
thepalliativedoctor.co.uk
A site created for clinicians supporting people through serious illness โ with practical tools, humorous looks at medicine and palliative care, communication tips.
#PalliativeCare #MedTwitter #NHS
A new article out now in the BMJ supportive and palliative care blog- all about managing uncertainty in a world increasingly lacking nuance:
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...
New article asking important questions about training in palliative medicine:
#palliativecare #funny #training
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...
New article asking important questions about training in palliative medicine:
#palliativecare #funny #training
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...
at last I find
the word in my haystack
but lose my thread
#DailyHaikuPrompt (thread)
#vss365 (needle)
#prompt
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24.01.2025 17:40 โ ๐ 507 ๐ 146 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 9#poetrycommunity
18.01.2025 20:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I wrote this poem because I was caught by the imagery of stillness that can be seen when sick;surrounded by motion and also because it can be easy to overlook those without voices. Our voice is often muted by illness. Sometimes the best medicine is companionship.
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...
I wrote this poem because I was caught by the imagery of stillness that can be seen when sick;surrounded by motion and also because it can be easy to overlook those without voices. Our voice is often muted by illness. Sometimes the best medicine is companionship.
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...
New poem in the BMJ SPC blog- just dropped- The Well.
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/01โฆ
Comments always welcome!
New year, new poem- published in the BMJ Supportive and palliative care blog. All about crime, rocks and perhaps -perspective.
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...
Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
05.01.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 36385 ๐ 9497 ๐ฌ 1218 ๐ 877New year, new poem- published in the BMJ Supportive and palliative care blog. All about crime, rocks and perhaps -perspective.
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...
Word of the Day is โhunch-weatherโ (19th century): weather so cold it makes you hunch your shoulders when you walk outside.
04.01.2025 09:20 โ ๐ 3388 ๐ 516 ๐ฌ 76 ๐ 35Twitter has become unbearable, it was getting bad but I felt that there were still lots of like minded people pointing out how awful Musk and the gang are, now it just feels like Muskโs bizarre comments are everywhere.
03.01.2025 21:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Celebrating death alongside life is a natural thing, perhaps never more so than in winter.
So hereโs to those we remember for being so important in our lives and living on in our memories. ๐ฅ
10 golden rules to live by, to manage other who are approaching their last illness by, (warning this is not entirely serious):
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2024/...