Geriatric Medicine. Interested in Parkinson’s, EOLC, big data, digital media. Rookie sewer, slow runner, occasional blogger. She/Her.
Melrose, Scotland
Joined June 2011
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Are you a bookworm who works in healthcare? This is a fantastic podcast, do consider it!
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This is such a huge loss.
I loved working on blogs with the EC team - they are truly wonderful. I learned so much and wish them every success at their next endeavours.
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It’s landed! Delighted to contribute and in awe of the effort put into this from @rosespenfold and others
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🧠 How do #delirium tools perform in the real world?
🔥 Systematic review
🏥 N=500,000, 22 studies
🛠️ CAM, 4AT, DOSS, bCAM, NuDESC
Free 🔗 agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Led by @rosespenfold
Fab time this week at @captheatres relaxed ballet performance - it was wonderful seeing all ages enjoying the show, the staff were so helpful and the dancing was of course superb
Me and sprog will be back 😊
Great to see @mainstreethare featured - so lovely and the mums Bookclub has been a tonic on maternity leave
Seven of the best browsable bookshops in the UK featuring @mrbsemporium, @MuchAdoBooks, Barter Books, @boothsbookshop, @Hatchards, @mainstreethare and @Bookbugsdragon1
thetimes.co.uk/article/seven…
#ChooseBookshops
Lovely day out at the @GreatTapestrySc - with family members with an age span of 0-88!
Looking forward to the panel going up in the interchange - we all put a stitch in it in November too, though the baby needed a bit of help
Really well written, clear and fair response 👏
To help address confusion surrounding certain clinical job titles, BGS has published this statement. We’ve suggested some ways that members can avoid ambiguity. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/…
I’m not saying having covid (at last) over our babies first Christmas wasn’t horrible but on the other hand I dropped an entire pot of garam masala on the floor and the kitchen smells the same to me so….
Silver linings?
Charlotte Squires retweeted
"Older people have always worked, contributed to their families and helped out the wider community. In other words, history teaches us that older people have so much to offer." bgs.org.uk/blog/history-repe…
Merry Christmas, especially to anyone unwell in hospital, and anyone working to look after them ❤️🎄🎅
When you’re a sewist and the #soundofmusic is on and you have a sudden craving to make your baby a pair of lederhosen out of whatever you can get your hands on 😂🪡🧵📍
Charlotte Squires retweeted
A simple nudge such as placing a chair at a patient’s bedside can increase a physician’s likelihood to sit by 20-fold, finds study, which also improves patients’ perceptions of their physician 👍🏽
Study includes a #VisualAbstract #BMJChristmas
bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023…
I started chemo 5 years ago today.
There is never a good time but Christmas cancer is particularly rough for lots of reasons and my heart goes out to anyone navigating it this year ❤️
Charlotte Squires retweeted
Great new book on the benefits of #exercise for persons with #Parkinson, written by three absolute experts in the field. Happy to have contributed the foreword for this book. Very much worth reading!
Unexpected outcome of having a baby is mastering making omelettes.
I was rubbish before but look at this beauty 😊
This is such an interesting thread about Edinburgh and the AIDS epidemic. And much more too.
