Nutrition tweets and humour from Jim Stewart. Retired Intestinal Failure Physician. Now mostly eating Spam and drinking whisky
Leicester, England
Joined September 2014
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There’s a worrying trend on social media for people who should know better recommending either arcane blood tests for non-specific symptoms or common blood tests for obscure indications.
And it’s all for a fee.
Listen to your body not social media
Fascinating listen. Guess what? Food has been processed for eons…and we’re all still here. Including the Germans 😉
@hoyer_kat podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
Excellent balanced overview of the role of carbs in diet bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8s…
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On a visit to Royal Berkshire maternity ward today @YvetteCooperMP said "social care has to be a priority...it's important we are there for people and that's what I am so determined to take forward."
Will she and Burnham really, finally,be the ones to fix social care?
I’m grateful to my former colleague for this excellent article. One of the great things about retirement is I don’t have to see people walking around the hospital carrying milk churns of water.
Trust your hypothalamus. And if you’re thirsty find a tap…
@Leicnut inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
I saw this and thought of you. Hope you are enjoying retirement.
Fabulous rugby player and role model.
Bravo @elliekildunne for speaking up about what can be a serious problem amongst sportspeople of all abilities.
Read more here: bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/…
Fascinating episode in a great podcast about the causes & effect of food shortages Germany during the Great War.
Always worth listening to the wonderful @hoyer_kat podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
Been told I have early cataracts and should eat kale
In an unexpected turn of events visual impairment seems a good option…
Retirement reflections #9
An organisation that has to tell you its listening probably isn’t
Retirement reflections #8
Harley Street etc, platform and promote dubious ‘diseases’ and diagnoses and the NHS picks up the pieces.
Disabusing those who have paid to hear exactly what they want to hear should not be the job of the NHS.
Retirement reflections #7
Management are wedded to their own orthodoxy.
Thinking outside the box labels you as a troublemaker.
Retirement reflections #6
Sending external specialist teams into hospitals to ‘improve efficiency’ never works.
Seen many over the years. They put backs up and achieve nothing.
It’s a waste of time and public money.
Being a classy guy I’ll be celebrating my retirement tomorrow in Spoons.
And I’ll be rocking these bad boys
(Courtesy of my lovely neighbours)
Retirement reflections #5
Many medical experts spend more time lecturing around the globe on their expertise than they do at work. This makes them experts on theory not practice.
Retirement reflections #4
As healthcare workers, patients share their most intimate secrets and allow us access to their deepest emotions.
Listen.
And respect the privilege of the trust they’ve put in you.
