Dr Robert Marshall

I love the concept of a community book swap... But because everyone will tend to take the best book available in exchange for an average book... Aren't they doomed to spiral towards mediocrity like some kind of airport-novel entropy?

Health Minister @GregHuntMP speaking at @ceda_news says telehealth should be a complement to, not a replacement for, face-to-face healthcare; gov't now working with stakeholders to see how to make telehealth a sustainable legacy of COVID-19

- Wash your hands - Practice sneeze/cough etiquette - Stay home if unwell ... We're seeing an incredible demonstration of how seemingly small individual actions, if adopted by many, can have huge impacts. #COVIDー19 (but see also: climate change, voting, etc. etc.)

Great to meet this year's scholars at the @AustAmFulbright 70th anniversary celebration! Congrats!! @Eddie_Cliff @WongChrisX

@DrBenLovell Also, as @nntaleb suggests - it's good to surround ourselves with unread books as a reminder of all the things we don't and can't ever know #antilibrary fs.blog/2013/06/the-an…

@DrBenLovell No! You just need to embrace the Japanese concept of Tsundoku! indy100.com/article/japane…

With today’s little excursion to the bookshop I have finally reached book saturation point. It has to be one-in, one-out from now on. I have never ever thrown a book away in my life and will struggle with this.

It's great to be back on the wards again! Juggling clinical medicine with my consulting job (health systems improvement) is not always easy - but it keeps me grounded in the daily reality for patients & staff in our public hospitals, which is key to making good #healthpolicy

Bravo @nanchanglu and all fellow medics the 🌏over who are taking a stand against #ClimateChange 💚 @DocsEnvAus @coopesdetat @robmarshall @NiksSimpson @DrRitaIssa @im4empowerment @madrugada007 @cbr_heartdoc @SMC54 @LancetCountdown @globalhlthtwit @rheasaksena

NSW Health Minister @BradHazzard at @ceda_news #aushealth event says we need "better value care": better outcomes for better costs #VBHC

Prof. Rodney Phillips at @ceda_news speaking to the burden of responsibility that even affluent nations have in the 21st century to consider the costs of health interventions when making decisions #VBHC

Great to be at @ceda_news event #AusHealth to hear from NSW Minister for Health and Medical Research @BradHazzard on #healthpolicy challenges facing the state

@char_durand Yeah... "Tell interns in ED they need to tell me about the [insert answer to the difficult clinical question the patient actually requires my specialist input on]" is not super helpful...

@robmarshall Thank you! I appreciate you highlighting this again- if you read the other comments on the post you will see that’s not always the case 😅

Intern referral cheat sheet! Thanks to everyone from #medtwitter who offered suggestions to help me put this together. Have given to a couple of interns to trial this week after approval from some local registrars. #meded #tipsfornewdocs

@char_durand @acemonline Not saying we need to try to predict the future... .. but it's unlikely to be a straight line. So we should think about what critical changes in the world would mean for our workforce and then what we could (/should) do differently because of that.

@char_durand @acemonline These models are often just linear extrapolation of current numbers adjusted for population increases... when what we really need are robust assumptions / sensitivity analyses about what the future of medical work and changing community needs might actually look like.

Hearing from Dr Susan Wearne, snr medical advisor for Dept of Health. Interesting stats for workforce predictions 2030. 🤔 @acemonline #prevoc19 #medtwitter

@char_durand @acemonline E.g. what happens to those ED numbers when we have a larger proportion of the population living with cognitive impairment (i.e. more falls and injuries) or what happens to derm if AI helps reduce the need for human skin cancer diagnosis and follow up?

@MarkHohenberg We should be highlighting these best practices as part of the Royal Commission - showcase what is possible with concerted effort!

@DrSimonMc This demonstrates why you need an ISOBAR/ISBAR handover and not just a text page for unwell patients. What's the HR/BP of the lady with haematemesis or the neuro obs of the man post-fall? Knowing this helps prioritise and allows you to give phone advice while you're en route.

If you were covering the wards today, how would you prioritise these tasks? Sickest first? A few quick wins? I’m tempted to go 1-4-5-6-3-2 but wonder what others might do and why? #medicalstudent #medstudenttwitter #MedEd

@DrMelNaidoo @insightSBS @womenandmed @Dochansra @JenBrockie Did you run into @court_r0bertson there? I think you two would hit it off!! #womeninmedicine #womeninlaw

Excited to be in studio audience for @insightSBS #FemaleFirsts & be able to put forward some fab 👩‍⚕️ #womeninmedicine to attend as well! So fun to go behind the scenes & hear the inspiring stories of trailblazing women on the panel! #sponsorship #womensupportingwomen @womenandmed

Absolutely! And I suspect many stick to jargon and 'conventional' ways of describing medical concepts as a way to psychologically cover because they don't fully understand them... Even if not fully aware that's what they're doing.