👋 Surgery, words, health equity, refugee health 👜 Reconstructive & hand surgeon ❤️ Columns + novels 📖 Bestselling author of ‘The Registrar’ (Rep @mjostell)
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Happy publication day to my book baby 🥳
I hope you’ll enjoy this deliberately realistic and fast-paced glimpse into modern Australian hospitals and medical training, and how patients, and healthcare workers might live, love and survive.
Available at all bookstores, today!
Some of my favourite photos are of the aurora taken by astronauts on the ISS. I think of them often as a reminder that everything has a different perspective.
Instead of governments building hospitals in inner city areas where no one lives and no staff can afford to live - what if they invested in suburban health services where patients and staff actually live?
My hot takes.
Thank goodness for Australian gun control laws - Americans (whose homeland has seen 125 mass shootings already this year), shush.
Statistically speaking, women were targeted, and we need to address societal misogyny.
We must invest in mental health care.
In case it’s not clear, all my hot takes, but particularly points 2 and 3, are separate.
Schizophrenia doesn’t make people behave in misogynistic ways, or make people kill. Misogyny is all around us, every day, and provokes men and women to behave in ways that harm women.
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Every photo of video of ‘kids being kids’ has, invisible behind it, broader socioeconomic privilege, and a whole lot of (usually female) adult labour.
Behind this photo are many carers (to change kids out of wet clothes) and parent(a) with time to run the washing machine daily.
A Danish kindergarten. Playing outdoors, even in mud, is part of each day. It's essential for children's sensory development. It's essential for children to be children. For the rest, grown-ups invented the washing machine.
#GoodMorning, everyone
If any Australian government believes they were elected with a mandate to ‘protect our borders’ then they will do exactly that.
Let’s be clear: this is not just them, this is all of us.
Women and children were issued Australian visas, underwent security checks, somehow got out of Gaza through Rafah into Egypt, boarded flights to Australia....Only to be told their visas were then cancelled.
sbs.com.au/news/article/gaza… @annajhenderson @rayane_tamer
This is the ‘real stuff’.
No one - not one patient - is ‘anatomy’ or ‘physiology’. All patients are people, and all diagnostics and care must be contextualised and individualised.
This is why subjects that teach this re the most important.
Dr Neela Janakiramanan retweeted
A representative quote from Chris, who is very understated and not at all prone to hyperbole. This is the reality.
“Doctors are stepping over bodies of dead children to treat other children who will die anyway,” says Chris Hook, MSF medical team leader in Gaza..
Read our latest update on the dire situation in south Gaza 👇
msf.org/no-safe-place-gaza-p…
I met the brilliant @KZiwica at the kinder gate in 2014. Our second kids graduated primary school together tonight.
Every woman deserves a fellow feminist at the school gate. If you find one, hold her close.
True story. The first time I met @ellenmfanning on The Drum she said to me: “if I don’t get your name right, you can call me Helen”
She did get my name right. And it made me feel so respected, as so few even try.
And I’ve struggled to not call her Helen ever since 😂