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Paula Leach

@drpleach.bsky.social
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Drinker of cocktails, baker of baguettes. #JustAGP on a few GP lists. Mute me if you need to 😁 Melbourne, Australia

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
They’re everywhere. My @smh @theage cartoon.
One frame. World map. Key: blue = ISRAEL; red = HAMAS. Israel coloured blue on map; entire rest of world coloured red.
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Most effective five words I can say, as a GP to a vaccine-hesitant parent “My kids are fully vaccinated” #vaccineswork
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Is it wrong to block everyone who replies “happy birthday”?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Five things to remember about war:
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Mug of the week
A white china tea mug with little caricatures of all the kings and queens of England since 1066The other side of the mug
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Ceres has a $150k shortfall www.theage.com.au/national/vic... Help keep this beautiful community space alive ceres.org.au/donate/
theage.com.au
Community garden CERES under threat amid cash shortfall
CERES has been a destination for nature lovers since it was transformed from a rubbish tip more than 40 years ago, but its future is at risk.
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I guess that Musk can be thankful he’s not living in 1540 England
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An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Not every fight needs a winner Sometimes it is ok if both lose
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Reminder - you don’t have to take sides. Not every story needs an underdog
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
It's kinda sad to witness grown men with such poor emotional regulation
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"As we plan the future of digital healthcare, we should also look back at what earlier systems got right. Ancient traditions were not perfect, but they treated listening as a clinical act. They gave time and space to the person’s story." www.croakey.org/providing-so...
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Providing some medical history, on the importance of listening to patients
From ancient storytelling to AI chatbots, the nature of medical history-taking has changed profoundly – and it's important not to
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
PSA After gutting the chicken, please wash your chopping board with hot soapy water to avoid cross-contamination. Salmonella is no joke
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
CALL IT ANTONY!
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Drink up
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I think Victorians are smart enough to know that the federal government is not the state government
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Ok everyone, let’s all calm down
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ClaytonClent @claytonclent.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Early figures
Early cave art
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
6.46pm - James Paterson already throwing Dutton under the bus
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#gutthechicken
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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
I desperately need @ryanmarino.bsky.social’s take on this story of a meal cooked with death cap mushrooms, even if it does not involve an airplane crash nor a celebrity.
An ABC article. Title: Erin Patterson, woman at centre of suspected Leongatha mushroom poisoning, gives her account of fatal meal. Exclusive by Dan Oakes
Posted Sun 13 Aug 2023 at 8:57pmSunday 13 Aug 2023 at 8:57pm, updated Mon 14 Aug 2023 at 2:42am. Photo: Erin Patterson, a white woman with brown hair wearing a gray cowl-neck sweater, looking up, an expression of despair on her face, a red SUV behind her.
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
When politicians try to turn your outrage towards a welcome to country debate, ask yourself - “what are they trying to distract my outrage away from?”
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Is this good? (BTW, in 2014 we had a bushfire in Gippsland that set fire to the mine adjacent to a coal fired power station. It took six weeks for the firefighters to declare it safe.)
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When a dying 88yr old man drags himself into a public meeting with you, perhaps it’s because he has something very important to say. It would be prudent to listen to him
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Well, that’s a shit ton of money to spend just for a cool Instagram post
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The loss of will to live is a clinical symptom of cancer as a disease, not a psychological failure of personal stoicism theconversation.com/cancer-hijac...
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Cancer hijacks your brain and steals your motivation − new research in mice reveals how, offering potential avenues for treatment
Cachexia, or wasting syndrome, causes around 80% of patients with advanced cancer to withdraw from life.
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Last month it took me 3 attempts to have a referral accepted, even though it was for a patient who already attends the clinic, and just needed a new referral so that the hospital could keep billing Medicare - Melbourne, Aust
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Learn CPR
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Australian government gave $2.7m to Musk’s X for advertisements in billionaire’s first year as owner www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Australian government gave $2.7m to Elon Musk’s X for advertisements in billionaire’s first year as owner
Exclusive: Spending came after the Albanese government paused ads for a week amid reports ads were appearing next to inappropriate content
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I had both a Covid booster and a flu vaccine, and my immune system is now going through a full dress rehearsal #😩 #manflushot
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
They arrived!
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Just me, waiting for our flu vaccine delivery
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a skeleton with a purple skull sits on a black table
ALT: a skeleton with a purple skull sits on a black table
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Anthony Macali OAM 🚀 @migga.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Victorian COVID-19 surveillance report has transitioned to a combined respiratory surveillance report which will incorporate information on influenza and RSV in addition to COVID-19. www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A picture in the style of a classical renaissance painting, of Nero fiddling with Rome burning behind him. But instead of Nero, it is a fat Donald Trump with an orange face. And he is playing his fiddle with a golf club
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Now economists know how scientists felt when he said “inject bleach”
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I can’t be the only person who was hoping this year has been one long April Fools joke, and everything would go back to normal at noon
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Truth
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
You know how in every group, there’s that one person who wants to be the one with the juicy gossip, just so that everyone will like him, and think he’s cool…
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hahahaha
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Maybe they thought it was Jeff Goldblum in the group chat. Honest mistake
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a man wearing glasses has the words stupid finds a way on his face
Alt: a man wearing glasses has the words stupid finds a way on his face
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Cool Whip What’s that all about?
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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Happy birthday to us 🎉 6 News Australia was founded on this day in 2019 (as HMV Local News) and we’ve continued to grow ever since, thanks to your support as followers and viewers Help keep us going by becoming a 6 News supporter from just $4/month: patreon.com/6newsau
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
About every 10 years I attempt to bake my great aunt’s ginger fluff recipe Well, I guess that takes care of the next 10 years
A sad deflated cake
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Integral Answers @integralanswers.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
1/ Rubella (German measles) is often mild, but its true danger lies in congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), which causes severe birth defects. Let’s look at how the vaccine changed the landscape. 🧵👇
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An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Measles Outbreak Victoria 5 new cases 2 locally acquired and linked to local outbreak reported in February 3 cases acquired infection in Bali 13 cases of measles in Victoria in 2025 -4 locally acquired See link for locations visited www.health.vic.gov.au/health-alert...
What is the issue?
Five further measles cases have been identified in Victoria. Two of these cases are locally acquired and linked to the recent local outbreak reported in February. Three cases acquired their infection overseas in Bali. These cases were infectious at multiple locations in Melbourne.
Measles is a highly infectious viral illness that can lead to uncommon but serious complications,
such as pneumonia and brain inflammation (encephalitis). There have been 13 cases of measles identified in Victoria in 2025, with four confirmed cases of local acquisition.
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Paula Leach @drpleach.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trump views countries as businesses, and he’s acting like a venture capitalist. He sees Greenland and thinks “ooh, what an interesting startup, loads of potential”
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
US regime changes to international aid have stopped the shipment of ready to use therapeutic food (RUTF), and this is likely causing the death of children. Well done USA. newrepublic.com/article/1921...
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Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"What’s inside this Plumpy’Nut® sachet that has saved millions of children?" Ready To Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in lifesaving action. www.unicef.org.au/stories/what...
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How Plumpy’Nut® ‘peanut butter’ has changed the world
Plumpy’Nut®, also known as ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), is a high-energy peanut paste used to treat malnutrition in children.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Thing about those anti-Musk stickers for Teslas is the bloke has been an easily recognisable sh*thead for at least 6 years now (prob earlier) I mean the Thailand cave rescue thing was in 2018.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
If you’re staging a protest and aren’t asking yourself “where should place the cops?” you’re doing it wrong.
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