ruth rigby

Don't trust Amazon's Alexa or Google Home? Here are several frankly insane patents they've filed over the last five years

@mikeskinnerltd outrageously good

Resilience training for burnout is like mindfulness for trauma. It sure helps to get through the trauma a little better, but without trauma management, it’s ineffective. Resilience training is a personal solution to a systemic problem. Treat the associated causative system too.

I have the honour of working in the same department as Dr Wilmshurst. His incredible self referral to the GMC in response to the #BawaGarba case to highlight the GMC’s response to medical error is powerful.

When you insert a nasogastric tube, a nasotracheal tube or a nasopharyngeal airway, go low and go slow in the nose. Do not aim up. Aim down and backwards. Follow the flat floor of the nose. I’ve met many traumatised middle turbinates. #ENTpearls #ENTsurgery

For an assignment, I asked some of my terminal paediatric palliative care patients what they had enjoyed in life, and what gave it meaning. Kids can be so wise, y'know. Here are some of the responses (Thread).

I glitter in the sun

Be bloody careful seeing patients labelled as "flu-like illness": so far this month I've found a big bilateral PE and a disseminated malignancy (different patients) presenting under the "flu" banner. Watch those cognitive biases! #FOAMed

In 215BC, Roman women asked the senate to repeal the ‘Oppian Laws’, which legislated how much jewellery they could wear & how much gold they could own. The orator Cato the Elder opposed the women and made this speech in the senate...

wishing I had a skein

Not sure what to do with any lovely xmas cards you got sent this year? Simply cut off the front the card and post to: Women in Prison Elmfield House 5 Stockwell Mews LDN SW9 9GX They’ll be used in Dec in workshops for inmates to make xmas cards to send to their kids & family

Some of our staff spoke to @nytimes about the impact #Brexit is having on them. nytimes.com/2017/11/21/wor…

Today I have resigned as Chairman of @KingsCollegeNHS. I do not do this lightly as I love King's but believe the Govt & regulator are unrealistic about the scale of the challenge facing the NHS & the Trust. I want to pay tribute to the staff & their excellent patient care.

This sends a chill down my spine. And it should you too:

Scotland to get a #safestaffing Bill. Wales already there. England is being left behind...

For many girls around the world, #summer holiday is not all fun in the sun. It's #CuttingSeason: unfpa.org/cuttingseason #EndFGM

I'm tired of Tories praising firefighters, police, NHS medics, council staff and other emergency workers then cutting their pay and jobs

.@Theresa_May tells a nurse who says she earns the same as they did in 2009 that sadly there 'isn't a magic money tree' #bbcqt