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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤

@geekydr.bsky.social
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🇷🇴Doctor in love with her profession | Paeds reg | PhD student | HPE and Paeds Cardio nerd | Bookworm | Neuro✨| Disabled | Geek

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 26/06/2026
A new generation is becoming dependent on nicotine. Vaping and e-cigarettes should be considered a public health emergency. Prof David Strain has spoken to LBC radio on why doctors voted this week to raise the alarm. Listen here: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
"What we are really concerned about is the growing use of vapes and e-cigarettes, particularly by children and young people... as a brand new way of experiencing a nicotine addiction." - Professor David Strain, BMA board of science chair, speaking to LBC radio
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Pretty sure @redrunswick.bsky.social is the first (acting up/interim) chair of council that is a female resident doctor ⭐️ “Clapped then slapped” is what doctors have received indeed #ARM2026 @bma.org.uk
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📣Calling FY doctors (that did their undergraduate medical studies in the UK) and UK medical students! 📋Help contribute to improving undergraduate medical education on pain and gender representation🙏 Complete the survey +/- an interview to help understand your experience⬇️
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
*164 as I’ve just finished one more, but so pleased to see how many universes have helped me escape from a difficult year, and have helped me celebrate my dad’s cancer free achievement ❤️ #GoodreadsYearinBooks #books #bookworm
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Not many know that my laptop died literally less than a week before my first year viva. The new one has finally been christened with stickers from @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social Anyone else that pops their personality all over their laptop?❤️ @sarahgraley.com @fuzzballs.bsky.social @bexiidraws.bsky.social
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 20/11/2025
A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards. Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer” www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Rise of LEDs
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Delighted to have been featured in a national poetry showcase, “Poetry and health”, by the @creativeclinic.bsky.social, that can we watched here: www.creativeclinic.org/poetry Writing poetry in a second language has been something I’ve beent trying for a while, it’s lovely to see it appreciated 💙
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Poetry | Creative Clinic New
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Claws grab my waist Womb split open. Despair,it creates Earplugs that tighten Shutting out reality Screaming impostorism There’s no possibility, To academics-euphemism, To be both disabled And successful. All along you needed Them to be thoughtful: It’s not a crime To need time
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Book launch day joy! #stephaniegarber so curious to see the new universe built by the author of Caraval, one of my forever favourite trilogies. #fantasy #books #bookworm
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Flu ready! #flujab #vaccineswork
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
And- spoiler alert- further data showing more frequent association of women-gendered terms with stigmatising and blaming language, often in contravention of good practice guidelines about professional usages. Anyway- fab work @geekydr.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to meet IRL! 3/3
Rhea and Cristina in front of the #asme2025 conference holding slide.
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Dr Ruth Vilayil @ruthvmd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Fascinating! Also I refuse to use “childbearing age” 🤮
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The #GenderBias continues with a plethora of terms codifying women by bodily functions (including the teeth-grindingly awful 'girls of childbearing age/potential') vs just 3 for men, none of which mention men's reproductive age/potential. C'mon @nicecomms.bsky.social , sort it out. 😵‍💫 2/3
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Terms for female patients

women or person
young women aged 17 and under
girls
girls of childbearing age/potential
young girls
women or girls
woman or pregnant person
mother
women and people receiving medical management of miscarriage
women or girls of childbearing
potential

Termsfor male patients

Person/People
Transgender men x1
men
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Extraordinary presentation at #asme2025 by @geekydr.bsky.social looking at the language in NICE guidelines. Why *is* it that 'women' needs to be mentioned 377 times in guidelines about intra-partum care but 'men' only 3 times in guidelines about prostatism? #GenderBias #MedEd 1/3
Christina in front of slide tabulating the frequency of  gendered terms in NICE guidelines. An example of repeated gratuitous use of 'woman' is given- "For women labouring in water, monitor the temperature of the woman and the water hourly to ensure that the woman is comfortable and not becoming pyrexial".

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Risks: Habituation, semantic satiation and/or worsening already existing bias
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 18/06/2025
We are working to improve access to reasonable adjustments for autistic and neurodivergent doctors. Want to know more? Read more about our disability equality work, including our webinar with Autistic Doctors International www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
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Disability equality in medicine
Our work looks at the experiences of disabled doctors and medical students in education, training and the workplace and the priority areas for action to ensure they are properly supported and represen...
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 18/06/2025
"Autistic people actually can flourish in medicine, and are probably very common in medicine" Dr Seb Shaw and Dr Rosie Baruah share their experiences as autistic doctors and why more work is needed to challenge misconceptions. Read more 👉 thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/lif...
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More than able
Autistic doctors often face stigma and discrimination, but with the right environment, they can thrive
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 18/06/2025
Listen to the latest episode of The Doctor podcast, about supporting autistic patients - and getting certification from the National Autistic Society thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pod...
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 18/06/2025
For #AutisticPrideDay, we’re celebrating the contributions of autistic doctors and the importance of inclusive practices for autistic doctors and patients. Read about Dr Cristina Costache’s experiences as an autistic doctor www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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Why we need autistic pride
Cristina Costache highlights why it’s so important to listen to autistic people, particularly those who are often overlooked.
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Proud of my April reading list✨ I think a personal record/month❤️ #bookworm #books
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Made this for one of my dad’s doctors(I know her well and we both love Sailor Moon) #fanart #sailormoon #gastro My £2 crayons 😆
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
(1/2)Having to explain to your parent as a #doctor and daughter what his diagnosis of carcinomatosis is feels like a bigger stab than anything I’ve ever had. Knowing what will happen, having known it was this but needing a confirmation because you hoped it would be ok, no one
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Anyone else feel like everything is just very heavy of aching? The hurt around is sometimes too much #hypersensitive #ND #poetry I just want to weep But I am stood frozen The hurt carving deep. Perfectly chosen My skin So paper thin Sipping The pigment of sorrow
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Emma Runswick @redrunswick.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🚨TODAY is the LAST DAY to stand for ARM in the Divisional (geographical) elections 🚨 ARM this year will elect 2 new Chief Officers and set the direction of the BMA. Like what your union is doing right now and want more? Stand! Want changes? Stand! www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/a...
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ARM 2025 division elections
ARM division elections are open to all BMA members. Find out more about the ARM division elections to this year's ARM.
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Iona Collins @nhsdoctor.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
@the-bma.bsky.social , how can we fund general practice appropriately?
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Iona Collins @nhsdoctor.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
@dauk-gp.bsky.social I’m sure this is on your radar. £5.25? How does this buy expert wound management, instead of coffee and a biscuit?
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Been shared this by one of our Yorkshire GPs. @wesstreeting.bsky.social I might be a paediatrician but even I know that a PSA test costs £65-£120, so nowhere near £5.25. How are we expecting the screening of let’s say a third of the population to occur with only £5.25 per capita? #nhs
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Grateful to Forbes including THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS on this list 💚 "Guenther challenges the conventional wisdom that the climate debate is simply a partisan issue, as both sides of the political spectrum often perpetuate fossil-fuel talking points."
The Best Energy And Climate Books By Women Authors In 2024
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
✨Neurodivergent✨ 💭What people think they’ll see: lack of empathy, lack of imagination, poor eye contact 👀What they can actually see: lots of colour (I love wearing colours), masking ++ (I can read you well => that’s how I learn how to mask), bubbliness and creativity+++ #audhd #autism
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 09/12/2024
Missed this at the time - such a thoughtful, measured & predictably wise piece from @pwhitakerwriter.bsky.social on assisted dying. www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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For assisted dying to work, GPs need to know their patients
Ending a life must be a choice made between alternatives; not one taken because of a failure to provide proper healthcare.
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Watched Puss in Boots the last wish with my parents and forgot how much husband said I was like Perrito. A bit sad but wouldn’t have it otherwise☺️ Sadder how the awful life in medicine and trade unionism has tried hard (and nearly managed) to change me #pussinboots @dreamworksanim.bsky.social
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a cartoon dog wearing a yellow hat and sweater
ALT: a cartoon dog wearing a yellow hat and sweater
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
November reads❤️mainly wholesome and all recommended ❤️ #books #bookworm #readingchallenge
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🩺How to destroy a doctor who’s parent has cancer, psychologist edition: 🚪Call them into their parent’s psychology appointment and ask them to contribute in a professional capacity. 🥲Somehow I’m still in one piece, but I’ll cry for a whole day once I’m not near my dad.
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What’s four Christmas movies to know you by? Last one isn’t Christmas related but it used to be on TV on Christmas for many years❤️
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 25/11/2024
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Veronica Danie @veronicadanie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Cristina Costache 💜🤍🩶🖤 @geekydr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
When abroad and #endometriosis is nasty, but you have 2 more options for pain relief that isn’t an opioid✨ hoping they help, forgot my TENS machine goddamn And no cat to act as hot water bottle either #pain #painrelief
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you, For the world to become good and beautiful and kind?  Let’s take a knife and cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind.      Langston Hughes
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 25/11/2024
In the week that MPs vote on assisted dying, please - please - can we all agree & act on the fact that the time to end the woeful underfunding of NHS palliative care is now? If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days. Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 24/11/2024
So welcome to see @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social focusing on NHS cover-up culture & attacks on whistleblowers. I urge him to note how doctors (like me) raising sincere safety concerns about replacing doctors with PAs are being smeared & attacked by NHS bodies. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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NHS bosses who silence whistleblowers face sack under government plans
Ministers to launch public consultation on regulating managers in effort to end ‘culture of cover-up’ in NHS
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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