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Frankie

@friswith-med.bsky.social
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Doctor. Former chemist ⚗🧪 & process safety nerd. Northerner. Humanist. Dabbler in languages. History buff. Gamer. Geek. Death positive. 🧀 &🥂 She/her #MedSky

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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So the effect itself is nothing startling, but if we're getting the temps to create them in places that never have had such heat previously, that's climate breakdown Apparently there was one in coastal Cumbria recently, which is definitely 🤯 We're headed for almonds & apricots here again
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Radiant heating of the land causes a column of warm air which rises, taking light surface material with it, according to my personal Environmental Scientist @rarebrit.bsky.social
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
They're called hay devils. They didn't happen in my cooler northern latitudes, so I've never seen one. But my husband remembers them fondly from childhood in Sussex in the 70s/80s www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_de...
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Dust devil - Wikipedia
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Well this is enraging, and deeply concerning. Anyone else think this is softening the ground for the Leng outcomes? I will continue to admire the tenacity, commitment to principles & "ladder extension" of Prof Kar @parthaskar.bsky.social PCP Edinburgh is about to see another influx
FINALLY- Decision 

@RCPhysicians

investigation Removal from the Council of an elected member Barring standing for elections 12 months By a panel which is unknown - with zero right to reply. (To be ratified by Council on 15/7) For exposing chicanery around PAs by senior execs While prev PRCP and Reg have zero sanctions after their actions brought along an EGM 

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Pretty much as expected by an organisation trying to suppress any dissenting voice Regrets? Nil You can try whatever you want - the direction around PAs has changed for good Kids- never ever give up a fight when you are doing the right thing. On the upside? RCP have asked me to see my GP for mental distress this may have caused me. That’s nice- no? 
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Kimmel nails this hoser.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/06/2025
A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
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Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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Philip Lee @drphiliplee1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Honestly, I can't think of a more persuasive argument for striking than Streeting urging you not to strike www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Streeting urges doctors to vote no in strike ballot
Resident doctors unhappy with 5.4% pay rise with union warning strikes in England could return.
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Lost in History, OBC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦 @devonianmatthew.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Then, Sir Nick, LET IT DIE.
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Doctors have ‘saved’ the Government, Taxpayer & NHS, over £10bn since 2008 If pay had increased in line with inflation Annual saving for the public of £2bn in today’s money, or £1/week/taxpayer Should Doctors & other #NHS staff subsidise the NHS or be paid fairly? @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I love this. We need more of this sort of management in the NHS
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Putin suggested holding direct negotiations in Turkey on May 15. President Zelenskyy with his team arrived in Turkey. Putin is absent. Instead, he sent a non-representative delegation with no decision-making mandate. Does Putin want to achieve peace and stop the war? The answer is obvious - no
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The knock on to the NHS will be devastating We already struggle to discharge medically fit patients due to care shortages, making those shortages worse will block more beds Add to that the number who'll turn up at ED because they're not safe at home when care falls through & we're f*cked - frankly
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
GOOD NEWS! Moderna’s combination COVID/influenza vaccine candidate mRNA-1083 has OUTPERFORMED the current standalone vaccines for BOTH viruses in a large (8000+) Phase III trial. A combination vaccine would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID and influenza at the same time. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We needed an XRMA attached to an SEM to find that silver lining - well done 👍🏻
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I keep thinking “WOKE MARXIST POPE” to the tune of Pink Pony Club
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 08/05/2025
As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵
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PaediatricFOAM.com @paediatricfoam.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Day 7 of posting some of our most popular articles, to help rebuild our following. Here's another Jonathan Round classic, on #DKA www.paediatricfoam.com/2017/02/diab... Please share! #medsky #pedsky #meded #paedsky #diabetes #T1DM
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Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Principles behind Protocols
Dr Jonathan Round – PICU Consultant
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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We endured six months of submissions and process for the Treaty Principles Bill, a bill cabinet knew would never pass. Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We are, and we have the pharma base to do it 450 million people in the EU, plus UK & satellite nations who'd buy it
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks
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Chris Worsham @chrisworsham.com · 06/05/2025
John Nance, an aviation safety safety expert who has spent a lot of time working to bring that safety culture into health care, tells the story of the 1977 Tenerife disaster like no other. So many lessons for medicine that are still yet to permeate youtu.be/5qDaIK9-HH8?...
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The public think they're a quick fix. Got a cough? Must be a chest infection ➡️ abx Got a GI upset? Needs abx Got a simple UTI, no fever, flank pain or other 🚩? Too inconvenient to do self-care ➡️ abx Kid has a fever, must be bacterial... Pushing back is hard, but necessary for abx stewardship
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of New Mexico have developed a tau-targeting vaccine that could help PREVENT the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. In preclinical trials, the vaccine REDUCED pTau, IMPROVED memory AND motor function, and REDUCED brain atrophy with NO major side effects. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hey, UK Labour.... look at this..... ⬇️ *This* is how you win votes. Not attacking poor people. Not pandering to Reform. Making peoples lives *better*.....
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/04/2025
Telling people to “do your own research” when in reality it means embracing disinformation from uncredentialed wellness grifters trying to peddle non-proven alternatives, and ignoring decades of rigorous peer-reviewed work from scientific experts, will kill people.
Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines
In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It's how many there were in London in all of 2024. London has a population of 8.9 million, compared to Chicago's ~2.7 million (2020 census) So, from my PoV yes. Perhaps less so to someone from Cape Town (77 murders per day, pop 4.9 million)
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad...
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Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights
A letter to my fellow Canadians
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Dooey, Killem & Howe Though that's more like the name of their law firm...
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Craig Nikolic @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 22/04/2025
Almost every area of England is seeing fewer patients in general practice F2F as a % than 2019. That is true. But… Every area in England is offering more F2F appts than 2019. There are more F2F appts being offered than ever. Don’t go blaming GP access for the faults of whole NHS capacity.
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?
Carrie Bradshaw at her computer
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"André, you lost another submarine?"
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Data Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Here is a Beta Version of the ICE Flights Tracker. There is much to do to improve it but we wanted to get it out there. Court Districts are available per request. This will evolve to become more user friendly. Pairs well with @jjindc.bsky.social's BlueSky account public.tableau.com/views/ICEFli...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/04/2025
Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman
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Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman
Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out, says journalist Jordana Timerman
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is predictable, but so outrageous and disgusting. Kremlin-owned Trump is preparing to recognize Crimea as "Russian." Not only did Russia illegally annex Crimea, but they set up concentration camps I am so angry 🤬 Crimea is and will always be Ukrainian, no matter what Trump and his thugs say.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 18/04/2025
The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"sort of like a greenish purple"
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A Brit doing the same. We're so worried for you, we see seriously fashy sh!t unfolding I was convinced he was dead, I'm incredibly relieved to see I was wrong. This is a great first step, but it's going to be a long road
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
It’s extraordinary that so much media still reports on Trump with the old, redundant tools of the trade. He lied about Ukraine, then he tried to extort Ukraine, and having failed he threatens to walk away from Ukraine. The idea that he was ever going to do anything unwelcome to Putin is ridiculous.
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The e-waste they produce too
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I had this thought, you beat me to it!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
My late Mam once came back from a two week holiday to find a letter giving her a week (since elapsed) to confirm she wished to remain on a waiting list It's shit
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Is this not a symptom of a wider problem with shifting education to being about exam scores and testing rather than learning as an end in itself The measurement has become the target 🎯
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Frankie @friswith-med.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I don't speak Italian or Spanish. I don't speak Swedish or Norwegian I can read a menu in all of them, because I'm a Geordie who studied Latin (& speaks French) Cognates and context are seriously underrated IMO
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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