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Visiting Professor of Health Economics, UCL, London Founder member of EuroQoL Group Arthritic run-walk runner Jazz musician (piano / trumpet) Ex-biker

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The ultimate obscenity in the New World, where one corrupt leader with blood on his hands salutes a fellow facist tyrant who he nominates for Nobel peace prize. Welcome to dystopia that is today, the United States of disarray.

08.07.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social I have a particular interest in Radium Vita. Emanating patent in US records held by my great uncle. Company operating in UK until mid 1940s at least.
Contact me via email if interested
paul.kind@ucl.ac.uk

22.06.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Musk appears with black eye at White House farewell The Tesla CEO was asked about the visible bruising around one of his eyes - and says his five-year-old son X Γ† A-12, or X for short, is responsible.

What kind of a dumb schmuck father invites his 5-year old son to hit him in the face?

Elon Musk asked about his black eye
news.sky.com/video/share-...

30.05.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a contrast!

MUSK, the stale odor of corruption and decay in USA today.
The joy and positivity of 56,000 "athletes" in London on Sunday.

My band are playing at Mile 25 (Cleopatras Needle) to support the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and ALL participants.

26.04.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Surely one of our prime responsibilities as scientists is to address the key issue specifically excluded in this survey - namely identifying a consensus method for measuring utilities. Take your pick SG / TTO / VAS / DCE / PTO / ME ?
So what does this say about the "science" of health economics ?

01.04.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The outside(free) world sees the US in self-destruct mode. We also feel the pain. Trump is the catalyst but the fault lines go way back, even before the Civil War. Watch out for legal battles between States & WH. With Supreme Court mediation? And a 3rd Term? And everywhere, the right to bear arms.

01.04.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Which is more important - the Hippocratic Oath and its enjoinder to "abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm" or subservience to a political party and its tyrant leader?
I guess we know now in Trump's United States

04.02.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What is so staggering to the world outside Fortress America, is the sheer scale of its impoverished leadership and the obvious failure of its system of governance. Trump's re-election is not the cause, it is a symptom of deep-rooted, primitive values in a society some 150+ years out from civil war.

04.02.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Afraid NOT. QALY's landed in health economics literature in late 1970s. Achieved UK prominence with Alan Williams@York in 1980s. Consolidated in NICE Technical Guidance ~2000. Great concept but problematic - health economists cannot agree on a standard process to measure "value" states of health

20.01.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It seems appropriate to use today as the turning-away point when departure from Twitter (X) becomes inevitable. Trump (with/out Musk) represents such a bleak future for us all, a confirmation of the absurdity of the US electoral system and its governance. So, farewell to X and removal to Bluesky.

20.01.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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