#British Medications

[parisoonic]

pals drinking together (hand practice that got out of control)

[findafight]

Funniest part of Charles having cancer is that my grandpa might live to see his fourth British coronation

[disease]

"ANDY WARHOL'S MEDICINE CABINET" E. 66TH ST, NYC | DAVID GAMBLE, 1987 [chromogenic print | 32 ⅞ x 27 ¼"]

[samglyph]

I can’t be the only member of the unhealthily obsessed with gravity falls as a kid to unhealthily obsessed with malevolent as an adult pipeline

[probablyasocialecologist]

Earlier this week the trade union for doctors and medical students in the UK issued a warning about the number of doctors that have had to quit or reduce their hours due to long covid – the number was one in five. This story was covered in a limited way in a couple of places, which while not good enough was still a welcome jolt of covid reality in a landscape of denial. But tellingly, the media ignored something else the British Medical Association said. Something angry, something as equally demanding of attention, perhaps even more so than the headline statistic. Addressing the current spread of covid, particularly in healthcare settings, they said, “Infection control guidelines are fundamentally flawed: SARS-CoV-2 is airborne. It is outrageous that three-and-a-half years into this pandemic, staff and patients are still, knowingly and repeatedly, being exposed to a level-3 biohazard – a virus known to cause brain damage and significantly increased risk of life-threatening blood complications even in those recovered.” The union entrusted by 173,000 doctors and medical students in the UK to speak on their behalf is angrily castigating politicians and decision makers for refusing to face reality. The reality of covid as an airborne virus, and its reality as something much nastier than a cold or flu. They are demanding the reintroduction of infectious disease controls, and explicitly calling out covid as a brain damaging virus, and equivalent in its danger and infectiousness to yellow fever or West Nile virus. 

[dandelionjack]

england we are in shambles

[pybun]

medic team fortress 2 has been invited to the apex games

[fifisettos]

wilson is a pigeon. he's only an arsehole because people make him that way.

house is a seagull. he's just an arsehole.

[dkettchen]

SCIENCE IS ON IT! The kids will be ok 🙏

(They're even calling to stop the ban while they're doing this and on the same side as the rest of us in that "[they too believe that] clinicians, patients and families should make decisions about treatment on the best available evidence, not politicians."!)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Family and friends of a young shelter worker in Nanaimo are speaking out about her death from an undiagnosed serious infection. They told Global News they believe she could have been saved if she had access to a family doctor. Sophia was only 23 years old when she died on Nov. 27 after repeatedly being misdiagnosed by doctors. “She was full of life, super funny, had a great sense of humour,” Sophia’s mom, Melonie, told Global News.

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[windslar]

[parisoonic]

The Teufort Grandmaster (Archimedes) remains undefeated. I shared [this] with a pal and knew what I needed to do.

[psychic-waffles]

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ARE OPPOSING THE CASS REVIEW LETS GOOOOOO

The BMA is to undertake an evaluation of the Cass Review – the independent report on gender identity services for children and young people in the UK, published earlier this year.

Members of the BMA’s Council recently voted in favour of a motion which asked the Association to ‘publicly critique the Cass Review’, after doctors and academics in several countries, including the UK, voiced concern about weaknesses in the methodologies used in the Review and problems arising from the implementation of some of the recommendations1.

A ‘task and finish’ group, established by the BMA’s Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield, who will also appoint the group’s chairperson, will pay particular attention to the methodology used to underpin the report’s recommendations. There have been ongoing discussions within the BMA about the Cass Review since it was published; before that the BMA attended meetings with Dr Cass when the review was being written. These, together with the Council’s wishes, have helped to shape what will be a detailed, evidence-led piece of work.

The BMA is calling for a pause to the implementation of the Cass Review’s recommendations whilst the task and finish group carries out its work. It is expected to be completed towards the end of this year. In the meantime, the BMA believes transgender and gender-diverse patients should continue to receive specialist healthcare, regardless of their age.

The BMA has been critical of proposals to ban the prescribing of puberty blockers to children and young people with gender dysphoria, calling instead for more research to help form a solid evidence base for children’s care – not just in gender dysphoria but more widely in paediatric treatments. The Association believes clinicians, patients and families should make decisions about treatment on the best available evidence, not politicians.

Professor Banfield said:

“It is vitally important we take time and care to get this work right. This is a highly specialised area of healthcare for children and young adults with complex needs, and as doctors we want to be sure they get the most appropriate care and the support they need. The task and finish group will make recommendations to improve the healthcare system that has, for too long, failed transgender patients. It will work with patients to ensure the evaluation invokes the old adage in medicine of ‘no decision about me without me’. It is time that we truly listen to this group of important, valued, and unfortunately often victimised people and, together, build a system in which they are finally provided with the care they deserve.”

[duchessofostergotlands]

A baby could have seen something like this was coming

[nobigneil]

Neil will be live streaming signing prints for fans on his twitch tonight! So expect lots of fantastic chat and laughter from Neil, Tom & Blue <3

Neil is currently working through a backlog of Streamily prints to be signed on and off camera, simultaneously while filming Cameos, curating and hosting Performance Captured Academy workshops, doing bg3 streams on Twitch, preparing for and attending award ceremonies, as well as back to back days of panels, meet & greets at conventions worldwide - not to mention the various acting/directing work he's currently doing that we don't know specifics of due to NDA's - tl;dr, the man is a machine and we are blessed.

[fyeahtimwalker]

'Sweetie Darling' by Tim Walker for Out Magazine, July 2016

Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders in character as Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous.