Justine Durno

Here's my speech at the UN, with subtitles! 🤟youtu.be/A9HojQ_ONaI #RASIT #February11 #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience #WomenInScience #WomenInScienceDay #languagedeprivation #audism #deafachievement #bsl #signlanguage

“Previous estimates, many of which are over a decade old, suggest that MDT meetings cost £100-£500 per patient discussed”. Mind blowing. Reading out reports for >100 patients in 3 hours has never felt like a valuable exercise, especially with the time lost prepping for it.

@RazaHoda I spy paranuclear hoffs….

Friday Quiz Time 🧩🔬 What’s this breast lesion—lobular or a lookalike? 🫧 Cast your vote below 👇 ✅ Answer drops Monday! #PathQuiz #PathX #PathTwitter #breastpath

@fouad_boulos @washu_pathology @washupathedu Likely juvenile fibroadenoma - gynaecomastoid epithelium present

Welcome to the Breast Consult Case of the Week 8! #BCCW8 #breastpath This is a teenager with a 7 cm right breast mass. What is the pathologist's question and what is your answer? @washu_pathology @washupathedu #PathTwitter #PathX

@fouad_boulos Great case! Trainee here - if there is background CCH, can we really rely upon ER and CK5/6? From my understanding they tend to have reduced CK5/6 and diffuse ER?

Happy Monday everyone! Discussing Breast Consult Case of the Week 7 #BCCW7 #breastpath. Honestly, I thought this was going to be a little more controversial, but you guys are just too good. The point of this case was to show how CK5/6 can be misleading and why it should be interpreted with care. In the H&E, we can see what looks like an atypical population of cells along the periphery of the depicted space, and another population of cells in the lumen. CK5/6 and ER stain the intraluminal population like they would usual ductal hyperplasia (UDH), and one would be tempted to call this UDH, especially that UDH can arise in a background of CCH. Although I do not claim to know the nature of the intraluminal population (which could just be displaced hyperplastic cells), it is important to recognize that the peripheral population is atypical both cytologically and architecturally (cribriform), and that it merits a designation of at least atypical ductal hyperplasia. Another important point to make is that, though this could be part of a DCIS given the pagetoid pattern, one had better be conservative when dealing with low grade proliferations of limited extent. A premature diagnosis of DCIS may cause more harm than good when based on limited material, and the management implications may be too drastic and uncalled for, especially if surgical resection shows no residual atypia. See you tomorrow for Breast Consult Case of the Week 8! @washu_pathology @washupathedu #PathTwitter #PathX

A surreal day it was. My training days are far from over but it’s the beginning of the end! Pleased as punch for my wonderful colleagues and fellow trainees. Absolutely well deserved.

Have you heard of the AIS (Accessible Information Standard)? Chances are you haven’t. The NHS is falling short in providing equitable healthcare to the deaf community. For more, see: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… Plus, I will be on BBC breakfast tomorrow morning discussing all!

A new, fully accessible sexual health service for the d/Deaf community is up and running! For more information, and to book, please visit: linkedin.com/safety/go?url=… instagram.com/reel/C8eML6-tn…

Happy Mental Health Awareness week! This features a message from my netball team, Hot Hands, who give me an abundance of joy. We’re always welcoming new players. I feature twice as I masquerade as a runner too sometimes…!

@MicrosoftTeams those censored ‘offensive’ words are not bleeped out on the audio. Why should hearing people have access to those words, and deaf people be left in the dark? Are rude words more offensive in text form than audio?

@MicrosoftTeams I’m a deaf trainee histopathologist and use captions on your app at work. Please remove the censoring of words, ESPECIALLY non-offensive anatomical words like ‘nipple’ and ‘vagina’. It’s exclusive to deaf people. And I deal in anatomy.

@deafgirly I use a Thinklabs stethoscope with a neck loop connevans.co.uk/product/237572… and put my CI on the T mode - I’m sure the neck loop also works with hearing aids as they have the T mode too.

My amazing cousin - who wears hearing aids - is doing her final year of medicine this year and is really struggling with her aids and stethoscope. Google tells me a Bluetooth stethoscope exists but does anyone know if they’re any good or have any recommendations?

@BSLTranslator @BDA_Deaf Ask and you shall receive!

Happy #SignLanguageWeek! Proudly replacing my Chris Whitty mug with this one. On Monday, @BDA_Deaf launched their #BSLInOurHands campaign - one very close to my heart. Deaf children have a right to BSL, their natural language, from *day 1*. #BlueOutforBSL

I was one of the lucky 10% to be born to deaf parents, but the other 90% are at the mercy of these supposed experts. Many of these kids are language deprived & go on to have psychosocial issues and a lower level of education attainment #SignLanguageWeek #BSLInOurHands @BDA_Deaf

@NadiaNadarajah @BDA_Deaf so good to see you too!! nice to see a familiar face ☺️

@DrJussieDee @BDA_Deaf Good to see you on last Monday 😊

Go to bda.org.uk/bsl-in-our-han… for more information on the campaign and to write to your local MP for support.

Deaf people have long experienced inequitable healthcare. Urgent changes are needed to policies, practices, and professional training across the NHS, says @DrJussieDee bmj.com/content/384/bm…

@Chris_PouliosMD @ESP_Pathology I did indeed - stayed on the rest of the week! Thank you for all your hard work and humour ☺️

@DrJussieDee @ESP_Pathology So great to see you enjoyed the #EScoP course! I hope you also had the opportunity to explore Lisbon a bit!

An endlessly fascinating and inspiring 3 days in Lisbon. A privilege to be amongst the greats of cardiovascular pathology. And great seeing Prof Lucas who taught me everything I know about autopsy pathology!

Today it has been reported that during our first round of action in England mortality rate was 11.1% above the 5 year average. What they haven’t reported was that in Wales, where no strike action took place, mortality rate was 14% above the 5 year average. 1/3