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Senescent surgeon

@pmd0214.medsky.social
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Retired academic surgeon. PGY-thirtysomething. Surprisingly well behaved. Full-time dog servant. She/her. Surgeons can be female. So why can't (US) presidents? 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 #MedSky #SurgSky #MedEd #ILookLikeaSurgeon #Womeninmedicine #EndGunViolence

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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are all exhausted right now 🤣
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can't give you a puppy...but I can share mine. Here she is! Maybe she'll be ready for a boat-ride next year.
Young golden retriever puppy taking a few moments out of the chaos to look angelic.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 05/09/2026
We went through that, too. It actually wasn't as bad as I had imagined. We found child sized pull ups worked better than the pet store types for our small golden. Maybe a small adult size would be suitable? We just cut a hole for the tail and it fit surprisingly well. Wish you the best.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 14/08/2026
But, sarcasm aside, I get that data makes a better case than "common sense".
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 14/08/2026
Who could have predicted this? 🤷‍♀️ www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
medscape.com
Physicians Working Excessive Hours More Likely to Quit
Physician working conditions often breach the European Working Time Directive, and derogations correlate with health deteriorations and intentions to leave the profession.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 22/07/2026
1 or 2 kg? You must have tremendous willpower. I would just throw the refrigerator door open if I got a look like that.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 19/07/2026
I think you have a great view of the pup's head. Background is a bit distracting, though.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 06/06/2026
And here is a link to a higher level directory of BlueSky starter packs. Try searching for MedSky which should give a large number of specialties and groups. Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory share.google/29BikWgZ6qva...
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 06/06/2026
Starter packs are an easy source of colleagues. Here is one:
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Women in Medicine - pack 1
Join the conversation
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 25/05/2026
Beautiful! But why is the front one lit up? Is that light through the clouds on that single berg?
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 21/05/2026
No! That's twice the joy in one conjoined body. Where can I get one?
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 02/05/2026
Fantastic shot! And with rockstar hair to boot.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 28/04/2026
Third vote for Elsinore Castle. Also recommend the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. I think it was about an hour by train.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 19/02/2026
Extraordinary!
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 09/02/2026
I'm sure what they are saying is "There is loads of room for you too - across the foot of the bed".
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 03/02/2026
Two, but they share a head.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas to both of you!
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 25/12/2025
She is beautiful!
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 11/11/2025
Lest we forget
Image of poppies
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 06/11/2025
If you reduce the flights to zero, you will have zero delays and cancellations. Et voila, problem solved 🙄
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 31/10/2025
A trophy would be a good detail.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 23/10/2025
CO2 will make all your problems go away...except maybe the cost of your funeral.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 12/10/2025
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Age 90 acute abdomen (no advance directives) #medsky
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 07/10/2025
Knock knock. Who’s there? Did you know? Did you know who? Did you know South Carolina has municipal elections next month? Vote.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 30/09/2025
She's beautiful!
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Recall RFK's claim that doctors & scientists were "on his side" at his last hearing? Wanna prove him wrong? I'll be ordering post cards soon, so if you're local to me, I can pass some along. I can also send them on your behalf (DM me your info for that). Or do it yourself--info @ link below.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 19/09/2025
Yes, that is the best approach. It is hard when you are exhausted and it keeps happening but nothing good comes from biting someone's head off.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 19/09/2025
You finish residency. Then those calls decrease markedly.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 06/09/2025
The difference is in the student and not the answer. Sounds more like a dangerous game the prof was playing.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 04/09/2025
I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.
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a woman in a blue shirt is looking at a man in a pink shirt .
Alt: a woman in a blue shirt is looking at a man in a pink shirt , scene from Notting Hill
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 04/09/2025
It's long past time. RFK Jr has done enough damage. He must resign or be impeached now. #medsky #RFK #HHS
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes
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Contact us if you were harmed by an alien.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 22/06/2025
Or maybe he did. And they told him he was insane so he left early.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 21/06/2025
Haha! Excellent!
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 20/06/2025
😂 Didn't know there were Dad jokes in chemistry.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 19/06/2025
🔥🔥
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ha! No kidding.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
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Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals
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Women in Medicine @womeninmedicine.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🌟Meet Dr. Annie Andrews🌟 Pediatrician, gun violence prevention advocate & researcher, and former congressional candidate working to protect kids’ futures. Clinical Professor at George Washington University & senior advisor to Everytown for Gun Safety & Moms Demand Action. Learn more: bit.ly/44D59Gn
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Torr (I moved to Threads) @torrleonard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia, and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPublica what is being lost." projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 11/06/2025
We have been talking about this for months. www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
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Research cuts pose ‘existential threat’ to academic medicine and put nation’s health at risk, new report says | CNN
Federal research funding cuts pose an “existential threat” to academic medicine that will have repercussions for patient care in the US, according to a new report from the Association of American Medi...
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 10/06/2025
You can sign a letter to support NIH staff who are opposing the current administrations damaging and short-sighted policies that threaten current and future generations. You can support as a patient, a clinician, a scientist or as anyone who has a stake in healthcare. www.standupforscience.net
standupforscience.net
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 08/06/2025
I'd follow him anywhere 🐾
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The slow death of American higher education. Nobody’s going to travel to study there. The best research will no longer be done there. The best research academics will eventually leave.
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Rubio: US to begin revoking visas of Chinese students
He said the State Department would "work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or ...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic... Dying senselessly is no act of freedom. And too many people in the USA do die senselessly because we have the wrong idea of freedom." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Health and freedom
We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic.
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Senescent surgeon @pmd0214.medsky.social · 20/05/2025
Fantastic! #medsky #surgsky
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Mr. Kennedy’s assertion that he has “not fired any working scientists” flies in the face of reality. Hundreds of scientists from NIH, CDC and FDA have lost their jobs as part of his plan to overhaul HHS." #medsky www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
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Kennedy, Defending Downsizing, Clashes With Democrats in Tense Hearings
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Medsky Moderation @moderation.medsky.network · 18/02/2025
Are you on #Medsky yet? Save our feed and check the pulse of the fastest-growing network of healthcare workers on Bluesky!
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