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🎙️NEW Portfolio Pathway podcast mini-series from #AnaesthesiaOnAir

Featuring everything you need to know if you're on or considering this route 👇

▶️Intro to the programme
▶️Non-clinical domains
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▶️Assessor viewpoint
▶️SIAs

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Dungarees too!

Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.

Sewage was spilt for 3.614 million hours in 2024.
That's equivalent to 412 outlets, discharging sewage continuously, 24/7, for the whole of the year.
All complacently overseen by the Tory government poodles at Ofwat.
It's time for Labour to create a regulator with teeth!
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Can you chip in to help fund the UK's first Temperate Rainforest Research Station?

This is a pioneering project by Cornish farmer Merlin Hanbury-Tenison's Thousand Year Trust (for which I'm an unpaid trustee).

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cornwa...

Can anyone tell me how to make Bluesky show me fewer cats? I don’t mind a few, but my timeline seems to have so many. Short of muting everyone who has ever mentioned a feline I don’t know how to reduce them a bit

We need to face uncomfortable truths about diversity in our medical workforce Stark inequalities exist in the number and distribution of ethnic minority doctors in specialty roles, writes Sethina Watson In my region, including me, I know of only three black anaesthetists who ...

'In surgery, only 25-30 of 230 black British applicants to core surgical training received offers, compared with 221 of 520 white British applicants. Inequalities between the numbers of black and white British applicants are also seen in general practice.'
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

I haven’t seen roentgenogram to describe a CXR before, interesting (quite apart from the clinical content)

Meanwhile, the Dartmoor Visitor Centre in Princetown is being forced to close because of a lack of funding, funding that the duchy could provide - without even missing it.

Read what the excellent @guyshrubsole.bsky.social has to say on such matters:

A poem for tonight because I cannot handle the smiles of politicians' who have been aiding this devastation for so long, now acting like they give a crap

I am quite stubborn so often persist for far longer, but there are times where I realise I don’t like any of the protagonists in the book and am never going to be engaged by it. These I stop, but I know where they are on the bookshelf and might go back to some one day

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did 😀

Sorry, I went to work but am delighted. Will DM you

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social Please can I buy someone a copy of Wild Service for someone #buyastrangerabook

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Who is your favourite Somerset spinner of all time? 🌪️

#WeAreSomerset
#150YearsOfSCCC

Not sure this is exactly what Viking Yule would have been like in 900AD, but beautiful display at Buckland Abbey, thank you @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Just a bit of tape to keep it on the thumb works, but they are quite crap

A collage of designs featuring a book print, a typewriter notebook, a vinyl record print, Christmas gift wrap and greeting cards, a brutalist print, a retro cushion, and a cafe print.

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I do a thing called The Big Green Book Club

It's a monthly subscription service where I individually pick, wrap & send out a book each month to people based on the stuff you enjoy reading

It's a great gift.

JOIN HERE
www.biggreenbookshop.com/book-club/in...

repost this like mad if you like.
Ta

I have a Christmas pickle, given to me by a friend. Apparently I have to hid it in the Christmas tree every year. She doesn’t yet know that I have got her a felt Brussels sprout this year

A pile of signed books, that I'll be giving as a raffle prize to the winner of Big Green Books Christmas Raffle. Authors include Susie Dent, Bob Mortimer, Rev Richard Coles Sir Trevor McDonald, Angela Harding, Jimmy Anderson and more!

ANNOUNCING

The Big Green Books Christmas Raffle!

Tickets are just £2 each.

All the money raised is going on books for three amazing schools.

You can win ALL these SIGNED books + £50 to spend on books of your choice.

Details HERE.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php

Please share far & wide, ta.

Princetown national park visitor centre to close THE POPULAR Dartmoor National Park visitor centre in Princetown is due to close after a funding injection ends in March causing concern the economy of the village will be affected.

Dartmoor visitor centre to close as National Park Authority cannot afford to renew lease from Duchy

National Parks are facing 12% budget cuts - not a great way for Labour to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their creation

& why is Duchy charging at all?

www.tavistock-today.co.uk/news/nationa...

If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.

YouTube video by Tim Minchin White Wine In The Sun (2021) by Tim Minchin: BACK

Inexplicably, it is that time again! Your annual reminder that every Christmas, all proceeds from White Wine In The Sun go to charity. Specifically, these legends: @aspectaus.bsky.social.

youtu.be/x1rw1fx170s?...

Personal reflection from John after seeing a private dentist: It would be easy to suspect that the Harley Street dentist was an avaricious rogue, but even I don't believe that matters are that simple. Private medicine and private dentistry have their own dynamic. At the top end, people will understandably do whatever is technologically possible, regardless of price. If state-of-the-art imaging and treatment reduces the risk of losing a couple of molars from, say, 5% to 3%, they'll do it. Just as understandably, some customers are willing and able to pay a lot for that small advantage. What gets lost in this dynamic, however, are transparency and proportionality. The Harley Street dentist never explained to me that we were dealing with those sorts of margins in terms of outcome, expenditure, and choice (nor the option of simply having the teeth removed). I had to deduce everything for myself and resist the pressure to aim for "perfect." As the system becomes pulled along by what the richest can afford rather than what's good enough and affordable for many, more people will be left behind with nothing at all. That's what the NHS was designed to prevent in the first place. John Launer,

I always enjoy reading @johnlauner.bsky.social’s writing in the @bmj.com.

Some important reflections on how private medicine (and dentistry) sometimes work.

I too had a recent consultation with an endodontologist. We also agreed to leave well alone!

Link if preferred:
www.bmj.com/content/387/...

The front cover of The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane

A book a day for a week

#7 The Old Ways by @RobGMacfarlane.bsky.social

In the footsteps of our ancestors via our ancient network of paths

My father said that some authors make the words dance, and when you find one, make sure you dance with them. My father would have loved this book

For anyone in the UK, If you text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you are in a dark place or suicidal, a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. This is great If you find talking on the phone challenging. It’s completely free 24/7. Please Repost, you never know who might need this support

Really pleased with how the table and chairs we have restored have turned out