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Dipesh Gopal

@dipeshgopal.bsky.social

Doctor (GP) | @qmul-wiph.bsky.social research in cancer survivorship & health inequalities #survonc #lwbc | @gppact.bsky.social | Own views. RT≠end. linktr.ee/dipeshgopal

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Even the patient voice has been downgraded in research. Is it any wonder, that we don't understand conditions such as Long COVID or Chronic fatigue syndrome? www.bmj.com/content/352/... @bjgp.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social #bjgprc @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @bmj.com

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Because you are a patient, you are less likely to be believed: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK562... @drrageshri.bsky.social @bjgp.bsky.social #bjgprc

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Not being believed is huge negative effects on individuals, research and policy, e.g. endometriosis @bjgp.bsky.social #bjgprc @drrageshri.bsky.social

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@drrageshri.bsky.social tells us about epistemic injustice: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan.... @bjgp.bsky.social #bjgprc

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@drrageshri.bsky.social at @bjgp.bsky.social #bjgprc talks about her book 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing': www.hachette.co.uk/titles/rages...

Dr Dhairyawan presents her book at BJGP conference

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

What's your lens? If you don't have a lens...are you a positivist? @bjgp.bsky.social #bjgprc @kathcheckland.bsky.social

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

How do we define policy pilot success? @kathcheckland.bsky.social @bjgp.bsky.social #bjgprc onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@kathcheckland.bsky.social asks us to define our team's ontology and epistemology at #bjgprc @bjgp.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@kathcheckland.bsky.social talks about ontology and epistemology #bjgprc pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@kathcheckland.bsky.social tells us that themes do not 'emerge' in qualitative research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #bjgprc @bjgp.bsky.social

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

And we're off @bjgp.bsky.social @euanlawson.social #bjgprc

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Thanks to @uclan.ac.uk @nihrspcr.bsky.social for the kind invitation to speak in less than 1 month's time on how academics can boost their social media profiles: www.uclan.ac.uk/events/listi... What would you want to know about boosting your social media profile?

4. Social Media for Academics

Participants will learn about:

the importance of online visibility
establishing academic media, e.g. Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Scopus, Web of Science, ORCID
selecting the appropriate social media platform
building social media profiles and a ‘presence’
supplementary tools to create online content
Participants are encouraged to bring their existing profiles for critique and possible improvement.

Dipesh is an ambitious and driven Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and General Practitioner (GP) practising in North London. His research interests lie in research related to improving the lives of people with a cancer diagnosis (cancer survivorship, living with and beyond cancer) and health inequalities. He was previously an Academic

Clinical Fellow, NIHR In-Practice Fellow and SPCR Primary Care Clinicians Career Progression Fellow. He has 17000 social media connections across all platforms.His work has been published in the BMJ and The Lancet and was covered by 'New Scientist' in recent years. One of his career highlights was being invited to give a keynote address at an international conference, Association for Medical Education in Europe in August 2021 on ‘Unravelling the threads of race, racism and medicine’. In November 2021, he was awarded honorary membership of the Medical Women’s Federation. He was one of the founding members of the 'Primary Academic CollaboraTive' which aims to democratise and make research for relevant to busy primary care staff.

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Last night with @sathnam.bsky.social x Hannah MacInnes hosted by How To Academy @rgsibg.bsky.social Great event asking us to hold contradictory challenging views: Empire can be good and bad at the same time. Could reparation be seen as an investment in former colonies? #empireworld

Sathnam Sanghera in conversation with Hannah MacInnes

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Our new paper is out cc Damien Ridge: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We asked people from ethnic minorities about their experience of Long COVID - many experienced inconsistent healthcare 🧵 @nisreenalwan.bsky.social Carolyn Chew-Graham Nina Smyth Tom Kingstone Patrycia Gaszczyk Samina Begum

Medical ambivalence and Long Covid: The disconnects, entanglements, and productivities shaping ethnic minority experiences in the UK

Damien T. Ridge, Alex Broom, Nisreen A. Alwan, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Nina Smyth, Dipesh Gopal, Tom Kingstone, Patrycia Gaszczyk, Samina Begum

Abstract
Structural violence - related to ‘isms’ like racism, sexism, and ableism – pertains to the ways in which social institutions harm certain groups. Such violence is critical to institutional indifference to the plight of ethnic minority people living with long-term health conditions. With only emergent literature on the lived experiences of ethnic minorities with Long Covid, we sought to investigate experiences around the interplay of illness and structural vulnerabilities. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews with a range of UK-based participants of varying ethnic minorities, ages and socio-economic situations were undertaken online between June 2022 and June 2023. A constant comparison analysis was used to develop three over-arching themes: (1) Long Covid and social recognition; (2) The violence of medical ambivalence; and (3) Pathways to recognition and support. Findings showed that while professional recognition and support were possible, participants generally faced the spectre and deployment of a particular mode of structural violence, namely ‘medical ambivalence’. The contours of medical ambivalence in the National Health Service (NHS) as an institution had consequences, including inducing or accentuating suffering via practices of care denial. Despite multiple structurally shaped ordeals (like healthcare, community stigma, and sexism), many participants were nevertheless able to gain recognition for their condition (e.g. online, religious communities). Participants with more resources were in the best position to ‘cobble together’ their own approaches to care and support, despite structural headwinds.

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