@davidjvaughan.bsky.social
Paediatrician. “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad
@carlhorsley.bsky.social
07.08.2025 19:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#StormySkies
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Less than average? Taking that as the benchmark will really skew the incentives
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This is one of those situations when I don’t want to hit the “heart” button because I don’t know what it means.
I refer to the local Organ Procurement group as vultures.
It should be a matter of national shame that we now spend more on maternity litigation than the total cost of running maternity services.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
@carlhorsley.bsky.social @matt13.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... "everyone in Ireland fell into a vat of Guinness, got drunk and needs to sober up" is 10/10 persuasive diplomacy.
16.07.2025 19:49 — 👍 163 🔁 33 💬 7 📌 19You had almost…what hope for the median voter
13.07.2025 19:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s point of view. The only thing that can do that is a good story. stories are a kind of benevolent Trojan horse. You let them in, and they add complication, allowing you to understand a thing and its opposite are true at the same time.”
05.07.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model to correctly solve 85.5 per cent of the NEJM cases.
That compared with about 20 per cent by experienced human doctors,
#AIDiagnosis via @financialtimes.com
Enjoy
30.06.2025 20:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0me: there's no way this day could possibly get any better
Ireland:
It feels like the dark ages are creeping up on us.
#Diphtheria
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Definitely time to reup this
24.06.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@juliangough.bsky.social
www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...
Probably the best reaction by anyone just learning about the 36-hour B-2 missions.
23.06.2025 19:42 — 👍 182 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0
Two letters to @economist.com on #HighReliability this week. Is this a record?
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“Every administration is trying to build the plane as it flies. This may be the first adminstration that is yanking random pieces out of the engine, and chucking them out of the cargo bay in mid air.”
22.06.2025 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh dear. Not the kind of story ireland wants to see on page 1 of the @wsj.com
21.06.2025 10:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@carlhorsley.bsky.social
21.06.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A question for delegates attending #HEPS2025
If the HFE community was allowed to focus on only one “thing” to improve healthcare, what would that one thing be? And you aren’t allowed to say education.
@heps2025.bsky.social @peterlachman.bsky.social @carlhorsley.bsky.social
Did Bob Wears ever utter anything other than profound wisdom?
@heps2025.bsky.social
@carlhorsley.bsky.social @matt13.bsky.social
@heps2025.bsky.social
A great read with lessons for pitfalls to avoid when #healthcare meets #HFE
#HEPS2025
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Great intro to #HFE at #HEPS2025 from Liam and Angela.
@peterlachman.bsky.social @carlhorsley.bsky.social @janekohara.bsky.social
#Vaccines #idiots
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
Thank you- was an honour to receive the award
03.05.2025 06:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Ask the right questions for AI says Nick MacDonald @heps2025.bsky.social #HEPS2025
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18.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dr Stavros Prineas talking about Stephen Bolsin at #HEPS2025
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