Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤

Rhea and Cristina in front of the #asme2025 conference holding slide.

And- spoiler alert- further data showing more frequent association of women-gendered terms with stigmatising and blaming language, often in contravention of good practice guidelines about professional usages.

Anyway- fab work @geekydr.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to meet IRL!
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Fascinating! Also I refuse to use “childbearing age” 🤮

Slide text- Terms for female patients women or person young women aged 17 and under girls girls of childbearing age/potential young girls women or girls woman or pregnant person mother women and people receiving medical management of miscarriage women or girls of childbearing potential Termsfor male patients Person/People Transgender men x1 men

The #GenderBias continues with a plethora of terms codifying women by bodily functions (including the teeth-grindingly awful 'girls of childbearing age/potential') vs just 3 for men, none of which mention men's reproductive age/potential. C'mon @nicecomms.bsky.social , sort it out. 😵‍💫
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Christina in front of slide tabulating the frequency of gendered terms in NICE guidelines. An example of repeated gratuitous use of 'woman' is given- "For women labouring in water, monitor the temperature of the woman and the water hourly to ensure that the woman is comfortable and not becoming pyrexial". Explanatory text- Risks: Habituation, semantic satiation and/or worsening already existing bias

Extraordinary presentation at #asme2025 by @geekydr.bsky.social looking at the language in NICE guidelines. Why *is* it that 'women' needs to be mentioned 377 times in guidelines about intra-partum care but 'men' only 3 times in guidelines about prostatism? #GenderBias #MedEd 1/3

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More than able Autistic doctors often face stigma and discrimination, but with the right environment, they can thrive

"Autistic people actually can flourish in medicine, and are probably very common in medicine"

Dr Seb Shaw and Dr Rosie Baruah share their experiences as autistic doctors and why more work is needed to challenge misconceptions.

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Why we need autistic pride Cristina Costache highlights why it’s so important to listen to autistic people, particularly those who are often overlooked.

For #AutisticPrideDay, we’re celebrating the contributions of autistic doctors and the importance of inclusive practices for autistic doctors and patients.

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Proud of my April reading list✨ I think a personal record/month❤️ #bookworm #books

Made this for one of my dad’s doctors(I know her well and we both love Sailor Moon) #fanart #sailormoon #gastro
My £2 crayons 😆

🥺🫂I’m not, things wouldn’t be this bad if I was, but everything is so much easier in hindsight 😞we learn 😞

Tbh it was invented back 2 millennia BC it was just called “hysteria” lol

(2/2) tells you about this in med school. No one preps you for the fight you have as the only medic of working class parents. To fight for their care, to be the mediator, to fill in the gaps of poor medical communication, to give them hope even when you have none left #fuckcancer

(1/2)Having to explain to your parent as a #doctor and daughter what his diagnosis of carcinomatosis is feels like a bigger stab than anything I’ve ever had. Knowing what will happen, having known it was this but needing a confirmation because you hoped it would be ok, no one

Anyone else feel like everything is just very heavy of aching? The hurt around is sometimes too much #hypersensitive #ND #poetry
I just want to weep
But I am stood frozen
The hurt carving deep.
Perfectly chosen
My skin
So paper thin
Sipping
The pigment of sorrow

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I wish, but that’s already not working, or going somewhere else 🥲

We could probably do better by crowdfunding lol

@the-bma.bsky.social , how can we fund general practice appropriately?

@dauk-gp.bsky.social
I’m sure this is on your radar.
£5.25? How does this buy expert wound management, instead of coffee and a biscuit?

Been shared this by one of our Yorkshire GPs.
@wesstreeting.bsky.social I might be a paediatrician but even I know that a PSA test costs £65-£120, so nowhere near £5.25. How are we expecting the screening of let’s say a third of the population to occur with only £5.25 per capita? #nhs

The Best Energy And Climate Books By Women Authors In 2024

Grateful to Forbes including THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS on this list 💚

"Guenther challenges the conventional wisdom that the climate debate is simply a partisan issue, as both sides of the political spectrum often perpetuate fossil-fuel talking points."

✨Neurodivergent✨

💭What people think they’ll see: lack of empathy, lack of imagination, poor eye contact

👀What they can actually see: lots of colour (I love wearing colours), masking ++ (I can read you well => that’s how I learn how to mask), bubbliness and creativity+++

#audhd #autism

For assisted dying to work, GPs need to know their patients Ending a life must be a choice made between alternatives; not one taken because of a failure to provide proper healthcare.

Missed this at the time - such a thoughtful, measured & predictably wise piece from @pwhitakerwriter.bsky.social on assisted dying. www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

a cartoon dog wearing a yellow hat and sweater ALT: a cartoon dog wearing a yellow hat and sweater

Watched Puss in Boots the last wish with my parents and forgot how much husband said I was like Perrito.

A bit sad but wouldn’t have it otherwise☺️

Sadder how the awful life in medicine and trade unionism has tried hard (and nearly managed) to change me #pussinboots @dreamworksanim.bsky.social

November reads❤️mainly wholesome and all recommended ❤️ #books #bookworm #readingchallenge

🩺How to destroy a doctor who’s parent has cancer, psychologist edition:

🚪Call them into their parent’s psychology appointment and ask them to contribute in a professional capacity.

🥲Somehow I’m still in one piece, but I’ll cry for a whole day once I’m not near my dad.

Likewise💙I’ve only just started myself as well🐣

What’s four Christmas movies to know you by?
Last one isn’t Christmas related but it used to be on TV on Christmas for many years❤️