Retired haematologist, current JP, ex army officer (OF5) and QHP. Likes Irish setters, choral music and evidence based medicine. Views my own.

Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2023
Dr Roddy Neilson retweeted
Could someone tell Lenny Henry ?
An excellent letter in The Telegraph today. Hope King Charles takes note !
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In spite of evidence visible from outer space, antivax loons with no medical or scientific knowledge will question this. To which the correct response is, ‘f*ck the fu*k off, ignorant c*nt’. Roddy’s waiting for you. facebook.com/share/19ryFMVhU…
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This is to be celebrated why exactly? I know a number of gay couples and individuals that have children but don’t need to advertise the fact like it’s some sort of trophy.
Hairstylist to the A-list, George Northwood has a successful business with supermodels, Vogue editors and Gwyneth Paltrow as clients. But one thing has always been missing from his life. This is his story

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This morning Col Mike Edwards and I attended the opening of the City of Glasgow’s Remembrance Garden at Kelvingrove. We represented the Erskine Veterans Charity, Scottish Veterans Residencies and St John Scotland. The very least we could do.
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Colour me surprised!!
Replying to @TheSnoozeDoctor
I am a medical student at KCL, all of the GEMs and now newly appointed HEMs have a background in nursing, paramedicine and PA. Each and every one has said Y1 of medicine has superseded their competence and is finding medicine a surprisingly difficult degree.
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In amongst all the doom and gloom about NHS GP practice I had an excellent interaction with my GP practice today about an ongoing medical issue. It works well when you engage properly.
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Slightly bittersweet finding these photos today.
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This. So very much this.
You keep saying medicine broke trust while repeating the very misinformation that helped break it. Vaccines were called poison. Ventilators were blamed for the deaths of patients already in respiratory failure. Remdesivir was called murder. Physicians were accused of falsifying death certificates. Those claims were amplified for years by people who had never managed ARDS, never worked an ICU, never certified a death, and often did not understand the evidence they were attacking. Did medicine make mistakes? Certainly. Bad communication, bad policy, institutional arrogance — all fair game. But you do not get to help poison public trust and then point at physicians and say, “Look what you did.” If you want trust repaired, stop feeding the lies that damaged it.
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I like.
When you understand the assignment but do it wrong on purpose out of spite.. 😅
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I am at smug levels of smugness today. I completed the Times Quick Cryptic crossword in under 15 minutes.
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Altar Mitty has persuaded yet another pretendy church to believe him so he can claim legitimacy for,ironically, being a bit of a racist. @calvinrobinson
Only Anglo Christian men should be able to stand for election in Britain. Only Anglo Christian heads of households should be able to vote in elections.
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My constant worry as well.
I often worry that climate change could cause a Trans woman's bollocks to chafe against her burka. That's why I support the Green Party. ✊️
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Dearie, dearie me…
One of the great moments in Scottish political history.
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The Greens are vile.
Nothing captures the spirit of modern England quite like winning a local Leeds council seat only to dedicate it to Gaza and roar Allahu Akbar under a Palestinian flag and then getting lined up to challenge Zack Polanski for Green Party leader. Truly inspiring leadership. What a gift to the nation.
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This is Magnus the Birman. He’s 10 months old and likes the laundry basket in my house. “And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you…even if it’s a mostly harmless and fluffy abyss” - Nietzsche (adapted)
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Today’s office. Sitting as a JP at the court in Greenock. See retirement from clinical practice? One door shuts, another opens.
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