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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 09/09/2025

Very exciting new project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - Medicine without doctors, co-led by an incredible team at Edinburgh’s Usher, @engelmal.bsky.social www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/09/2025

The solution to having a new kitten and a child starting Gaelic medium education

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 03/09/2025

Delighted to be reviewing this for @thelancet.com and that there is an appreciation for how feminist economics has a profound influence on health and medicine

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 02/09/2025

This is not the way you ask a question in a research study.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 01/09/2025

Happy ginger cat appreciation day! 🐈

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 23/08/2025

Physicians assistants upset that their work opportunities/over-reaching have been curtailed by the Leng review; but PA union was all too dismissive of these same impacts when they affected doctors due to PAs being rolled out across the NHS.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 13/08/2025

In Germany kids are given a schultüte on their first day at school - essentially a Christmas stocking of goodies. My Scotland-born daughter was counting her lucky stars for those Köln roots this morning.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 11/08/2025

The occupational hazard of being a woman and the greater risk of needing a restraining order to stay safe from a stalker is a risk to heart health 💔

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 10/08/2025

Scottish Water warned of the driest start to the year in Edinburgh since 1964. Arthur's Seat tonight.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 08/08/2025

Back to work present to myself

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 07/08/2025

I already had a pretty high opinion of the human placenta, but I’ve just found out it’s used in a cream to help severe burns to heal. 🙏

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/08/2025

Working with a colleague to start a Balint-style group for obstetrics & gynae trainees to discuss the significant challenges and emotions in their line of work. Anyone part of such a group who could share reflections on what works well? How to make space in busy surgical rotas? Opening up the room?

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 05/08/2025

Good news from Gates. Would have been even better if there were recognition of the conditions that affect women differently and disproportionately when compared to men (from autoimmunity to mental illness) as well as distinct women's health areas.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 31/07/2025

When you read as a break from work and research, and then the novel you’re reading includes a graph like this:

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 31/07/2025

Calling it: the best sparkling water of all time

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 25/07/2025

Meirion Thomas is a media favourite because he’s unashamedly misogynistic and makes his point as if “it’s what everyone is thinking.” Can we retire him from public opinion pls.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 18/07/2025

Love seeing differences in medical notation. This US semi-standardised way of documenting blood results is so efficient (below, friend trained in US now in Scotland). Never seen anyone in the UK use a ‘fish bone’ structure. Have you?

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 18/07/2025

End of night shifts at the hospital. The last one ever. Nobody is happier than my daughter. And this is waiting at home 🥰

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 17/07/2025

So much wrong with this headline and picture. This guy has a full time job and does his share, or more, at home. That’s not unmasculine or unattractive. It’s quite the opposite.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 15/07/2025

The questions are more interesting than the results on this quiz about traditionalism and progressivism in the British public. www.moreincommon.org.uk/seven-segmen...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 14/07/2025

Realising your dentist has a side hustle in Botox when filling out their annual forms. 🩼 I imagine this is now utterly normal.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 12/07/2025

What would you even make with a 2.2kg ox heart?! 🫀#scottishbutchery

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 12/07/2025

Weekend swim at Pittenweem tidal pool 🏊

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 12/07/2025

I haven’t heard women - in my personal circle or patients - say this, and really wasn’t aware intense pain is a problem DURING a c-section, but how horrific for those affected. The Retrievals was phenomenal and I’d expect this will be too. www.nytimes.com/article/seri...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 23/06/2025

Concerns about Assisted Dying Bill discussed by Lade Smith at @rcpsych.bsky.social Congress in Cardiff. Many in the room not opposed, but concerned about current bill and lack of safeguards. Also psychiatry’s role in the process of offering assisted dying in practice.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 15/06/2025

Unseen, closed book exams under timed conditions making a comeback. What other options does higher education have?

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 11/06/2025

Now online, my review of Jon Stock's, The Sleep Room, a chilling account of how a psychiatrist practising until 1972 in Britain's most eminent medical institutions was subjecting young women (predominantly) to horrific abuses and experimentation. @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 11/06/2025

Just seeing this sign raises the blood pressure. Good luck candidates!

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 06/06/2025

My review of Jon Stock's The Sleep Room out in next week's @thelancet.com. A hard but essential read for psychiatrists and anyone interested in mental health (the book, not my review, though I hope my 2 pages might encourage curiosity into the horrific true story of William Sargant's practice).

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 04/06/2025

Common sense prevails Physician associates to be renamed to stop them being mistaken for doctors | NHS | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 04/06/2025

Fantastic day giving a webinar on sex and gender considerations in research, and then co-leading a workshop with women's health researchers in Cardiff. Excited to see what the Women's Health Research Wales Centre does in collaboration with @messagetgi.bsky.social !

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 04/06/2025

I’m yet to go to an academic event in Wales where Welsh cakes were not offered. We need a similar policy with shortbread in Scotland.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 30/05/2025

This looks so great: an evening with @liangrhea.bsky.social (social media medical royalty) hosted by @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 30/05/2025

My surrogate marker is the Aroma coffee shop loyalty stamp card in my purse. A bit less dystopian.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 30/05/2025

It’s hard to sum up Michael’s brilliance as a friend, but the fact he managed to write about today’s most pressing crisis while living with cancer is remarkable. His book is now out; he is so much missed. www.amazon.co.uk/Parallel-His...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 29/05/2025

My daughter wants a cat. So we’re practising pet-related skills and emotions with a cat-erpillar. And we have reached level chrysalis! 🙌

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 28/05/2025

Late C20 psychoanalytic literature portrays being an only child as unrelentingly dire:

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 25/05/2025

Very interested to read this (pre-ordered), @emmaszewczak.bsky.social (and all the more so after @doctoroxford.com's review in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 24/05/2025

If you work in women's health, or you're a woman, or you're a doctor to women, please read the new World Economic Forum report, Prescription for Change, which lays out the problem of women's exclusion from research. Impressive suggestions. So much work to do! www.weforum.org/publications...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 24/05/2025

Current obsession. Looks like a nettle made pretty in pink 🌱

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 23/05/2025

"We will support you as we do our utmost to ensure that Harvard remains open to the world." Proud to be an alum. Harvard setting an international example about how to stand up to bullies.

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 22/05/2025

Delighted to be interviewing Tim Spector in partnership with Toppings on 10th Sept 2025 about his new book, Ferment. Come join us - in an Edinburgh church no less - to learn more about the gospel of food-as-medicine, and what microbes can do for you. 🦠🥦🥬📗

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 21/05/2025

"Our role is to ensure that research is accurate...to achieve this in our field of psychiatry and mental health, the inclusion of various personal characteristics of patients, such as their gender or sex, age, ethnicity or socioeconomic status, is essential." 👏👏👏 💯 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 21/05/2025

The dangers of predictive AI and gender bias! From Eddie Ungless, at the Sex and Gender Research morning at Uni of Edinburgh

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 16/05/2025

Are we overlooking the importance of B12 and the potentially devastating neuropsychiatric consequences of deficiency? Immensely powerful talk from Orthopaedic surgeon Julian Owen @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social

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