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NHS managers who silence whistleblowers could be barred from working in the NHS, under proposals being announced this week gov.uk/government/new…

I was humbled and honoured to receive the President’s Medal 2024 for my contribution to improving the lives of people with mental illness on Thursday. Thankyou @rcpsych @DrLadeSmith and thanks to many of my past & present colleagues, patients &carers, teachers &mentors 🙏

Time is running out to secure reduced registration fees for #BSICIPN24⌛ With a stimulating two-day programme for professionals across the #clinical #immunology field, this event isn't to be missed! Register before Thurs 31 Oct and save 👉bit.ly/4henjC7

Multi-modal Sim & cultural intelligence based training for medical trainers to improve feedback conversations. Promoting equity in medical education. Delighted to publish our innovation in IJoHS with @MoAlHaddad2 and @nath_oliver_sim @NHS_Education ijohs.com/read/article/w…

Speakers in the first session will include @_DrCharu and @R_tattersall, focusing on Immune Deficiency Syndromes and HLH. @ericliv

Minority ethnic doctors face barriers to authentic interpersonal connections and an impact upon their identity and sense of belonging.. ‘For us, whatever we do is wrong until we do something really good’ bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjope…

ME doctors face barriers to authentic interpersonal connections; impacts upon identity and sense of belonging; and unjust systems- a playing field that is not level.

Delighted to have our paper published @BMJ_Open “Whatever we do is wrong until we do something really good” - a qualitative study of ME doctors’ lived experiences: co authors @estheryoud Katie Gibson-Smith, Amudha Poobalan, and Peter Johnston👏👏 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjope…

We’re so proud to see @GillAitken2 signing the professorial role. All newly awarded Chairs at the University of Edinburgh are invited to add their signatures during the ceremony. Congratulations Gill on your well-deserved success! We knew it was only a matter of time

Excited to share our latest article published in @plosone: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #plosoneauthor We found different impact of some #dementia #risk factors in #minority groups Thanks to coauthors @Gill_Livingston Rohini Mathur @GemmaLewis13 @MarstonLouise @GretaRait1 Ed Lowther

Can’t remember the last time I laughed this much at a Hindi movie #RockyAurRaniKiPremKahani (it’s like Bollywood meets the #BarbieMovie ) thanks #KaranJohar

Thank you @mancunianmedic - doctors should be proud of the work and identity of our profession. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1… 👏👏

@interparcel DPD UK really awful that you didn’t even bother to call before cancelling the delivery of the @valeriecafe cake for my son’s first birthday Really disappointed. You could have at least called. @valeriecafe really disappointed. Will all for next steps.

We are raising money for @alzheimerssoc and tackling stigma around #memory problems in #SouthAsians - come watch @Soumik_Datta @Akademi @bloomstheatre on 26th June. Tickets from ucl.ac.uk/culture/whats-…

@AlexRichter3 Absolutely @AlexRichter3 - and we also need a simultaneous focus on retention of the new and upcoming workforce. No point turning on another tap if you don’t fix the big holes in the bucket at the same time !!

👇 doubling medical students. Yes we need more numbers but need really carefully thought through plan of how the existing workforce is going to support the clinical training for these students. Not much hanging around time in most job plans to expand teaching commitments🤷‍♀️

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend. Will Stenberg

"Wise doctors seem to be happier and more flourishing in their work: 90% believed that it was good or great, even in these highly stressful times." @johnlauner looks at what counts as wisdom when practising medicine bmj.com/content/379/bm…

Thanks to all those involved in enabling so many of us from Edinburgh and beyond to pay respects to the Queen. Thankyou #Edinburgh #QueenElizabethII