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Dr Kit Byatt

@Laconic_doc

Largely-retired geriatrician who loves #MedEd, EBM, equity & justice.
Polycurious; (usu) an incorrigible optimist!
(& hedging bets at @kitb.bsky.social)

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linkhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kit_Byatt/experience calendar_today03-05-2015 15:45:27

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Dr Dolittle(@DocDoLi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At the stage of my life where I really feel like I’m at a crossroads with medicine in the NHS ❌

I’m very tempted to move on from this as a career now…

I’ve tried to outline a few reasons below as to why, from my perspective👇

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Dr Nav Sidhu(@DrNavSidhu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Do we select the wrong trainees, or did we destroy the right trainees?”

Powerful words. I think about that every time I hear of a trainee ‘leaving’ our ANZCA training programme

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✨ Lynne Bowers 💙 💚(@LynneBowers2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Those colours in the sky are Nature reminding us that we’re very lucky to be here amidst the violence. And perhaps therefore also reminding us not to shite it all up :-)”

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Nature is Amazing ☘️(@AMAZlNGNATURE) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Adelie Penguin jumps in the boat, running away from a Leopard seal. He didn't want to go back in the water, so they brought him back to his friends..

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BabelColour(@StuartHumphryes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is the end of the week and this amazing photograph says it all: It is time to recharge my batteries! It's an incredibly modern-looking autochrome which speaks of the human condition, connecting us across the centuries. It was taken 104 years ago by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont…

It is the end of the week and this amazing photograph says it all: It is time to recharge my batteries! It's an incredibly modern-looking autochrome which speaks of the human condition, connecting us across the centuries. It was taken 104 years ago by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont…
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James Johnson(@jamesjohnson252) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW J.L. Partners The Rest Is Politics

We asked a representative sample of British adults how they felt about current and former Prime Ministers in one word

Here are the results ⬇️

NEW @JLPartnersPolls @RestIsPolitics We asked a representative sample of British adults how they felt about current and former Prime Ministers in one word Here are the results ⬇️
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Emma Garner(@ejgarner85) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When my 6 month old son died, a huge part of me died with him. Regardless of how much time passes, this existential loss will never be any less.
What continues to shock me is how many people expect a ‘full recovery’. Expect me to have ‘moved on’. To be thinking about and feeling…

When my 6 month old son died, a huge part of me died with him. Regardless of how much time passes, this existential loss will never be any less. What continues to shock me is how many people expect a ‘full recovery’. Expect me to have ‘moved on’. To be thinking about and feeling…
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Dr Kit Byatt(@Laconic_doc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Curiouser and curiouser, the bizarre tale of a $50 million loan to Donald Trump...

...from Donald Trump! 🤔

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Shematologist, MD(@acweyand) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The best thing about Twitter is the pocket friends to real life friends pipeline.

Thanks University of Michigan Medical School for bringing these two to town.

Nobody is dead. Let’s have cake!

The best thing about Twitter is the pocket friends to real life friends pipeline. Thanks @UMichMedSchool for bringing these two to town. Nobody is dead. Let’s have cake!
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Michael T. Lawton, MD(@mtlawton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The quadrigeminal cistern may be the most otherworldly spot in cranium, with cerebellum falling below, the Galenic complex of veins above, the posterior cerebral arteries coursing to the sides, within white walls of tentorium. If this is our office, what a way to work…

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Bernie(@Bernieadufe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/3 the heroic actions of 2 men in Co Carlow have been praised after they jumped into river to save a woman in distress.
Zakaria Messaci and Kamel Toudeft ran to the aid of a woman who had allegedly been thrown into the River Slaney in Tullow, Co Carlow.
independent.ie/regionals/carl…

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Dr Kit Byatt(@Laconic_doc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One of the downsides of medical insurance—it can take a long time for practices to catch up with changes in disease patterns.
And who suffers...?

...clue—not the insurers' bottom lines!!

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Dr Liz O'Riordan(@Liz_ORiordan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Twitter hive mind - what fabric do you use for upholstering cafe chairs and benches and where can you buy it from?

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