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Hester Wilson

@drhesterwilson.bsky.social
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GP, addiction medicine, FRACGP, FAChAM, singer, mum, wife, speaker, activist and optimist. Interested in better health outcomes for all, end of stigma, EBM, music. All thoughts my own.

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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
New Case Report online - doi.org/10.1111/dar.... Daniel Dutkiewicz, @drhesterwilson.bsky.social, Thanjira Jiranantakan, Peter Chisholm, Kaniz Fatema, Mark Hardy
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The Medical Journal of Australia @mja.com.au · 09/03/2025
🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia National consensus statement on opioid agonist treatment in custodial settings ✍️ Jocelyn Chan, Jon Cook, Michael Curtis, Adrian J Dunlop, Ele Morrison, Suzanne Nielsen, Rebecca J Winter and Thileepan Naren OPEN ACCESS buff.ly/jNuWZVb
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Mariam Tokhi @mariamtokhi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day. May we challenge the systems that undervalue us, overwork us and keep us "lesser than". And may one day, Medicare pay me as much as the taciturn man-doc in the room next door. #genderpaygap #medicare #medsky #slowmedicine @racgp.bsky.social
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Hester Wilson @drhesterwilson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My latest publication - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“The Whole Structure Is Knackered, It Could Still Explode, It Really Could”: A Mixed Methods Study of Initiatives to Increase General Practitioner Prescribing in an Opioid Dependence Treatment Progra...
Opioid dependence is a chronic health condition with significant public health implications. Opioid dependence treatment (ODT) has evolved considerably over tim...
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Nathan Warner @nathanwarner.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This is one (of many) reasons why I love my 1996 #Landcruiser
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Could the media please stop breathlessly reporting the "growing cost" of the #NDIS? This is a vile IPA/LNP/NewsCorp message. It treats Australians with disabilities as a "burden" on society. [This headline is from 2018. That's how long they've been pushing this grubby narrative.] 😠 #auspol
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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Once more, for the folks at the back: Children are not widgets. Schools are not factories. Education is not a business. Saving money is not the ultimate goal of education. Education is an INVESTMENT in our collective future. #OntEd
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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If this is true - that "unhurried conversations are a fulcrum around which effective health care operates" - (spoiler: It is definitely true) - then Medicare is an incentive to the enshittification of health care in Australia.
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Hester Wilson @drhesterwilson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Such good news www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...
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NSW to trial pill testing at music festivals in 2025
The Minns Labor Government will commence a music festival-based pill testing trial in early 2025, to reduce risks and harms associated with illicit drug use.
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Hester Wilson @drhesterwilson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Great news!!!
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If Gina owned the sun, Dutton would support solar. #auspol #nuclear #renewables #energy #fossilfuels #ClimateAction
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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 06/12/2024
How did you spend your year? Let us know down below ⬇️
A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year fighting for drug policies based in evidence, health, equity, and human rights"A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year helping us fight for a public health approach to drugs"A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year advocating for options, not judgement, for people who use drugs"A Spotify Wrapped style graphic reading "You spent 525,600 minutes this year fighting drug policies that punish people, block care, and waste money"
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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose. Other signs of his alcoholism included dizziness and chronic reckless behavior.
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Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is really interesting, but completely focussed on the individual. No mention of food security, employment, housing, poverty. "Lifestyle therapy" can surely only work where you have favourable social determinants of health.
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Mike Carlton @mikecarlton01.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Russian war crimes, too. What a world we live in.
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Teens who met in Ukrainian hospital after Putin bombed their homes have a message for the world
Vika Zadnipryana and Nastia Shadura became amputees when Putin's Russian military hit their homes with missiles. They struck up a friendship while recovering in a hospital, which was also dealing with...
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Hester Wilson @drhesterwilson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
‘Drugs are bad becomes people who use drugs are bad’ NSW Drug Summit 2024. ‘I worry that people will find out - I become Megan the drug user, this robs us of our humanity, you can’t help but absorb this shame…the fundamental sense of being wrong and not belonging…’ Megan Moses
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Hester Wilson @drhesterwilson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
NSW Drug Summit 2024.Prof Dan Howard
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Hester Wilson @drhesterwilson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hon Mark Butler MP speaking at GP24, ‘too many Australians are finding it too hard to get into see a GP’ he says the government has a laser light focus on this, increasing bulk billing rates, increasing doctor numbers with increased overseas trained doctors working in Australia, and mymedicare
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Hester Wilson @drhesterwilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Dr Nicole Higgins- addressing GP24- General Practice is the beating heart of the Australian Health System @racgp.bsky.social
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