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Dermot O’Riordan

@dermotor.bsky.social

1.9K followers 1.6K following 630 posts

Surgeon, Chief Medical Information Officer, Cyclist, Grandfather. Married to the more famous @LizORiordan.bsky.social and long may that continue! #surgery #DigitalHealth

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · Nov 16

I’ve switched to addressing most but not all my letters to patients, copied to GPs.
This powerful blog from @rorycj.bsky.social will get me to switch completely
Possibly, more importantly to use what influence I have in designing the defaults in the EPR we are building

Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · Nov 15

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... My latest healthtech Substack post is about those annoying letters that are addressed to your GP but should be written for the patient

This charming gentleman has had enough of GP letters

Time for hospital doctors to write direct to patients

open.substack.com

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 1d

Joe is the moral victor

Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re involved in an RTC/accident, your car has a “black box” recording just about everything going on. Lights, speed, brakes, indicators etc
Yet, talking to a police accident investigator this is nearly always off limits as manufacturers fear upsetting their customers

Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 2d

That’s lovely. Take care

Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 3d

Knew I liked him

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 4d

FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 4d

A total and utter hero

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 4d

Well said

Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 4d

Dear Farge, Tice, Oakeshott, Yaxley Lennon, Grimes et al.

Say his name.

Samir Zitouni.

Fucking racist bellends.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named

The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are "immensely proud" and he has "always been a hero".

www.bbc.com

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 5d

X, Grok, Musk cannot be trusted to provide reliable, accurate information. British government and MPs should not be on the platform.

Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 5d

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 5d

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 6d

Great. Where were both the wilderness and urban desolation scenes shot?

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 6d

And does so on Musk’s right -wing cesspit, Twitter/X

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 8d

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d

We in the UK will work out far too late that this is a bad thing.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 8d

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10d

Starmer could get his approval rating back up by simply quote tweeting Musk’s civil war rubbish with the words “Fuck off, mate”.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10d

The minimum expectation of a functioning government with the minimum levels of sovereignty and dignity is to respond to EM not only with words but also with actions and sanctions.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10d

Elon Musk continues to try to socialise civil war, political & inter-ethnic violence in Britain. He combines an argument that violence is inevitable with his call at the Tommy Robinson rally for pre-emptive violence, on grounds of an existential threat & the inevitability of violence

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 13d

The far-right are saying the quiet bit out loud

As someone who is both white and black, I feel comfortable calling this out for what it is

Because I’m pretty sure the likes of Arron Banks don’t include me in their “white” Britain because I have a bit too much pigment

This is racism

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 13d

Could it be the lock screen in iOS for an iPhone? As I mentioned before, would happily pay a reasonable price

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 17d

Let's not humour those advocating deportation of UK residents with reasons why their plans would not work.

Keep it simple, this is not the action of a civilised country.

If needed, this will mean complete chaos and destruction of international reputation.

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 17d

Love the cultural reference. Sadly, all too believable

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 18d

“You need to vote for us to stop Reform” is hardly going to work as a campaign slogan when you won’t even criticize a Tory MP proposing things more extreme than Reform (or Enoch Powell, or the BNP), and won’t stand up for the families such proposals threaten.

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 19d

That’s a real shame. I’d pay a reasonable price for an Apple Watch version

Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 19d

You must have reached a threshold of popularity to trigger them. I get obvious bot accounts following me but, thus far, not spamming me

Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 22d

Cow-berg

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 22d

No pun intended?! 😏

Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 22d

It’s fine. Not as “timeless” nor as classy as Swiss railways clock
But I’m biased as have one on my wall

Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 22d

Is that different to the large flocks of, similar looking, parakeets spread all over London?