Tim Senior

Hey, since we're making up nonsense about paracetamol, did you also know that it increases risk of being taken up in The Rapture, so there's a dilemma for some people now.

Really nice example, thank you

Learnt the myotomes and dermotomes through dance back in the day.
*eternally grateful to Nik Bogduk for teaching not only the material, but also for giving a lesson on alternative ways of learning

Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it's only a matter of time before someone brings up leeches.

Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles

On not being paternalistic ...maybe thinking of ourselves as being maternalistic acknowledges existing authority, and allows us to aim for our patients to thrive, to be in control of their destinies, guided by caring, wise prof

I wrote about not being paternalistic as a doctor, for the @bjgp.bsky.social, and wondered if we might be maternalistic instead.
bjgplife.com/paternalistic/

Now, thats an interesting example!

Yes, I did, and I still wonder how we might music.
Original article here: bjgp.org/content/62/6...
Love to hear other's ideas.

@timsenior.bsky.social asked the question in 2012 [which I confess I overlooked at the time] :
How can music be used in med ed ? - or something similar

Great question - and here's a starter :
Peter Grimes and child protection [and much else besides]

Any other thoughts out there?

#meded #opera

One million excess deaths linked to deprivation over a decade, Marmot tells conference One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot has told the Royal College of Physicians annual conference. Speaking at a discussion on health inequalities,...

One million excess deaths were linked to #deprivation between 2009 and 2020, says Professor Sir @michaelmarmot.bsky.social

Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to #austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010

@bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/389/...

In a world where GP is bashed, a lot, @timsenior.bsky.social finds the value bjgp.org/content/75/7...

This line in particular got me: The consultations I have had with these patients aren’t consultations of 15 or 30 minutes. They are consultations of 2, 5, 10 years, split up into 15-minute chunks.

Thank you. I'm glad that felt familiar!

Private equity-backed GP chain a winner from Labor health spending The BGH Capital-owned medical centre operator ForHealth has been a big beneficiary of the government’s increased spending on Medicare and urgent care clinics.

Wow. Curious to hear what GPs and patients think about this?👇🏾
@timsenior.bsky.social @kangaroobeach.bsky.social @lizsturgiss.bsky.social @karenmagraith.bsky.social
@brookmanknight.bsky.social
@racgp.bsky.social

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

How long does general practice take? "... to my surprise, I’ve become the sort of doctor that has been in the same clinic for 20 years. I’ve never been bored, I’ve often been anxious, and I’ve been privileged to witness some of

I've worked in the same clinic for 20 years now. I never thought I'd be in one place for so long. I had a few thoughts on being a GP for a long time in the @bjgp.bsky.social
bjgplife.com/how-long-doe...

A timely call for action on child poverty Introduction by Croakey: When infectious diseases specialists gathered for their annual scientific meeting in Canberra recently, a senior Indigenous medico

Timely call to act on child poverty. Dr Louis Peachey: "We are more frightened that we may give a benefit to a parent we consider undeserving than the consequences of letting their child grow up in poverty. Child poverty shames and diminishes us all."
www.croakey.org/a-timely-cal...
#SDOH
#AusPol

Yes, true, if I really want to read it

I can't read this article, because paywall, but I can read The Guardian, because not paywall, so who knows?

Sometimes when people don’t know how to analyse or evaluate a skill they call it an art #communication

Truly wish the world's media could be even half as outraged at Israel's extermination of the Palestinian people, as they are at trade tariffs.

Things that *should* be a big issue in the Australian election but sadly won't be:
- Climate change (even though our election was delayed by massive floods)
- Indigenous rights
- Inequality
- Poverty
- Our treatment of asylum seekers
- {NEW!} Our relationship with the US

Hello new followers.
It's a while since I've posted. But we have an election coming up in Australia (yeah, rmember them America?).
Health is going to be a big issue in the election - well, how much people pay to see a GP is going to be a big issue in the election - so I'll try to post a bit more.

Hey, yeah, you should write something for the GP Life blog/journal @bjgp.bsky.social

Write for (BJGP) Life I reflect on the journey to (and from) the BJGP conference. Sometimes the writing is already there, and only needs a home. Sometimes it needs an invitation to be written. Writers for (BJGP) Life, I lo

A wonderful @bjgp.bsky.social conference last week. Loads of great ideas for articles shared. bjgplife.com/write-for-bj... fyi @euanlawson.social @nadakhan.bsky.social @sammerriel.bsky.social @drtomround.bsky.social @timsenior.bsky.social

And I was pleasantly surprised the Facebook memories reminded me of something useful!

That's quite unusual

Also pleasantly surprised to find myself saying something sensible

I still think this

A screenshot of a Facebook memory of a tweet posted by Sarah White on 13 Mar 2013. The text is: Retweeted Tim Senior (@timsenior): What if the key skills for politicians were not those of running a business, but those of running a membership organisation?

Evergreen tweet by @timsenior.bsky.social

Good luck researching head trauma/ traumatic brain injury/ blunt trauma.

#evidencebasedmedicine under threat with partial inclusion and reporting embeddding scientific bias and political interests above population health

Picture of Tony Benn with a quote of his from 2005: "Ask the powerful 5 questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How can we get rid of you? Only democracy gives us that right. That is why no-one with power likes democracy and that is why every generation must struggle to win it and keep it; including you and me, here and now."

I'm sure I'm not the only person to post this, but it does seem relevant *right now*.