This pictogram segment from the opening ceremony of Tokyo Olympic 2020 will forever live rent free in my head. Definitely one of the best performances out there. This and the one in Beijing.

People are messaging me about working in 🇦🇺 & 🇨🇦 vs 🇬🇧 My DMs are open. Happy to advise, talk pros & cons etc And there are defo cons. The grass ain’t entirely greener. But… …when it comes to salary: spot the difference For clarity $218,553 🇦🇺 = £111,195 🇬🇧 #medtwitter

The incidence of airway trauma ⬇️ when a tracheal tube introducer was used ⚠️EXCEPTION: the standard stylet⚠️ ⬆️ associated rates of airway trauma when compared with other devices or when no stylet was used Adam Boulton Edward Smith 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Take care friends. <3 Always here with a listening ear. 👂

Pharmacist correcting doctor's prescription

Who would have thought that "Toowoomba pasta" would be so popular in Korea? 😅 abc.net.au/news/2024-08-0…

Alright that’s the NSW applications done I guess. 75 (!) historical applications! When applications for Plan A/B/C/etc open and close all at once. Or rather Plan B and beyond I suppose! 🥲

Me asking a delirious patient to come back to their bed

Sweet treats (including non alcoholic mulled wine, hot chocolate, cakes and cookies) from our #perioperative peer support officers in Royal Adelaide Hospital Central Adelaide as a winter booster 🧡

'Talking about dying won’t make it more likely. Death rates remain a stubborn 100% despite medical advances, a rate that looks unlikely to change'. Fab piece by Kathryn Mannix on new study of (over) investigation of pts who die <6mths later #Last1000Days theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is like driving a bed in front of a porter

Giving a human factors talk next month at a critical care conference Hmm... BMJ study found ICU trainees urine was x2 as concentrated as their patients Even a 1-2Kg loss of body water can reduce analysis/decision making by 15-20% Drinking regularly helps maintain performance

A man presented with pain from a splenic cyst, and died on the operating table when the surgeon removed his liver instead of his spleen. You cannot live without a liver. You can live without a spleen. I’m so angry for this patient and his family.

Today I levelled up in obstetric anaesthesia as we managed to get our caesarean section birth timed perfectly to the climax of The Circle of Life. (Parental request, Disney fans both of them, also happy for me to boast about it on here).

#Illawarra #Wollongong #Sydney 🙏🏼🙏🏼

"NHS must reform or die," UK PM Sir Keir Starmer to say after government-commissioned report criticises state of health service bbc.in/3Zh3Eef

Put a face to Dr Mary-Ann Fox❄️’s name! Was nice seeing the *ahem* ‘influenza’, and visiting Royal Adelaide Hospital - what a beautiful campus! ✌️See ya next year, maybe… 👀

Serving curatorial realness fr. #museum #history #royalarmouries #genz #armsandarmour

Patient today said I was the best at cannulating her rather difficult veins, ever. So then, this…

Israel didn’t intercept the pagers. It built a fake company and manufactured the pagers themselves. Imagine the paranoia that must be running through Hezbollah now. If Israel can do this, what it can it do in a war? No wonder they’re so afraid to escalate.