Meg Majumder

Anticipatory medications are reassuring and unsettling! Our new research paper @Age_and_Ageing Uncomfortable, important insights from patients and families.... thread - 🧵1/8 academic.oup.com/ageing/article… @TheQNI @MarieCurieEOLC @PELi_Cam @DementiaUK @LearnPEOLC @SamSherrington

@PCU_Cambridge @Ben_Bowers__ @wellcometrust @PELi_Cam @Cambridge_Eng @TheQNI @JesusCollegeCam Amazing amazing amazing @Ben_Bowers__! An inspiration😁

Exciting news in end of life research: @Ben_Bowers__ has won a @wellcometrust Post-Doctoral Fellowship to research symptom control in the last days of life. Congratulations Ben! @PELi_Cam @Cambridge_Eng @TheQNI @JesusCollegeCam phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/wellcome-a…

Excellent systematic review from @MegMajumder @Ben_Bowers__ and colleagues out now! Synthesises evidence on the prescription, storage, use and disposal of controlled drugs in UK care homes & highlights the absence of good evidence. Read at: spcare.bmj.com/content/early/…

@SusannahBrowne @PCU_Cambridge @PELi_Cam Thank you Susannah:D grateful for your support!

@MegMajumder brilliant presentation highlighting the relational and psychological issues surrounding the prescription of anticipatory medication in UK care homes @PCU_Cambridge @PELi_Cam

In Opinion Palliative medicine physician @SunitaPuriMD writes about those who died because of Covid's disruption to health care: "Their stories drew too little public attention, and their deaths, in the shadows, will probably remain uncounted forever." nyti.ms/3wyuKhZ

bjgp.org/content/72/714… @MacGPSarah Stephen Barclay @CatherineJanee1 @kesleeman discuss opportunities for #palliative & #EoLC in #primarycare in the pandemic and beyond. Shared vision and integration are key.

Hot off the press research from @tessalornam @RDuschinsky and Stephen Barclay explores low-fi technologies within older people’s end-of-life caregiving practices. Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Check out our new guest blog by ⁦@MegMajumder⁩ in which she provides an update on her PhD study enrich.nihr.ac.uk/blogpost/notes…

Friends! Here is my latest for the New York Times Opinion Section. Truly seeing a person in pain is the greatest gift we can give one another. @nytopinion The prelude to compassion is the willingness to see. nytimes.com/2022/02/23/opi…

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” ― Dr. Paul Farmer The world lost an amazing person today.

Indubitably the best poem you'll read today. I will never get tired of sharing it.

@Ben_Bowers__ @Cambridge_Uni @PollockKristian @NIHRSPCR @TheQNI @PELi_Cam @CrystalOldman @SarahRedsell @ARC_EoE Absolutely fabulous news!!!!!

Delighted to have passed my doctorate viva @Cambridge_Uni 🎉🍾 Many thanks to all my lovely colleagues and the generous people who took part in my research @PollockKristian @NIHRSPCR @TheQNI @PELi_Cam @CrystalOldman @SarahRedsell @ARC_EoE Not bad for a dyslexic😀 #dyslexia

How to ensure timely initiation of palliative care? Don’t focus too much on prognosis according to a NEW realist synthesis from Mila Petrova et al @Pelicam #palliative care #withtheendinmind spcare.bmj.com/content/early/…

what bell hooks particularly gifted me is a language of grief that is situated in love. her insistence in thinking of love and grief as symbiotic forces, as practices that depend on one another, has impacted me for the rest of my life. grief is the greatest expression of love.

About time India had a base national insurance policy for cancer care to save lives from this financial burden (toxicity). Great to see the paper by @ajumathew_ and team getting due coverage. I know a retd Prof (80+) arranging financial aid for palliative care for cancer patients

Protecting Your Birth: A Guide For Black Mothers - The New York Times nytimes.com/article/black-…

"The academic publishing enterprise ...reinforce white perspectives, perpetuate the myth of race as a biological construct, and fail to identify racism rather than race as a cause of disparities" jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-…

How can we improve palliative care for homeless people? @PCCongress #PCC2021 @carolineshulman

In this letter Louisa Polak looks at importance of trusting relationships for medication reviews in #frail #older people w/ multiple #comorbidities. Conversations may cover far more than medications alone & GPs or nurse practitioners are best placed #eol bjgp.org/content/71/711…