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Shai

@shaiuk.bsky.social

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Consultant in Intensive Care & Acute Medicine Work interests in admission avoidance, ward deteriorating patient, POCUS & Critical Care Outreach. Peri-sporty dad to two sporty boys. Step count up due to puppy. Sanity maintained by Consultant Resp wife

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old enough to remember the National Front and I honestly see no difference between the divisive rhetoric being spouted by the likes of Jenrick and the NF propaganda of the late 70s and early 80s.

Any One Nation Tories still left in the party should be ashamed of their own silence.

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 1d

*googles "short sell OpenAI"*
*results are AI so returns a recipe for shortbread and tips on how to sell it*

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 1d

I like to think this was just one guy’s CV

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 1d

GIM curriculum circa 2013…

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 1d

This cat would like a word…

A screen shot from Cordell Barker’s 1988 Short, the cat came back.

We see a yellow cat with a red bow tie being taken out of a house, by an obviously annoyed man, with a welcome mat underneath it.

Link to the video here. (It’s an ear worm)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJl_4IsQJ2g

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Sethina Watson @sethina.bsky.social · 11d

Have you attended a popular resuscitation course? Have you been put forward as IP? Or not despite being interested? Share your experiences in this survey. It is open to all specialities, and all grades of doctors in the UK. Please share with all.

forms.gle/HYRNUzkgwMsZ...

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 1d

BBC editor: I need you to write a piece on the impact of the fresh allegations around Prince Andrew’s involvement with Epstein.

Sean: Let me just finish reading [insert satirical magazine] and I’ll be right on it.

What can the King do about Prince Andrew scandals? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Screenshot from BBC article on Prince Andrew’s links to Epstein, titled;
What can the King do about Prince Andrew Scandals.
Written by Sean Coughlan, the BBC’s Royal Correspondent

Another screenshot, from within the article:

“The only King that Andrew is likely to see will be if Good King Wenceslas comes up on the
Christmas carol playlist.”

More screenshots:
“Benito Mussolini, Robert Mugabe and Nicolae Ceausescu all had honours withdrawn. Although the latter, the Romanian dictator, had his Order of the Bath honour taken away the day before he was shot by a firing squad, so it might not have seemed his biggest worry.”

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“They’re for FULL escalation”

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“papers in IEEE format”

Capricorn Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Mixed inclusion ratio trust"

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Useful advice on how to get rid of default AI searches on Google Chrome
opus.ing/posts/how-to...

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 13d

The hatemonger Rupert Lowe MP wrote a whiny letter to @thebarcouncil.bsky.social complaining about the Black Interns scheme.

Well done Bar Council and Bar Chair for this robust response.

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

Whether it’s Trump being fluffed by some doctor with no credibility, or Bryan Johnson’s claims of “having a biological age of 21” being unquestioningly reported, the press seem utterly unable to do any research before writing. These are not validated metrics. They are not real. It is meaningless.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

Hi!! This is Scout.
Scout, as per all labradors is a highly functioning life support system for a stomach.

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite line from the bbc today has been this…

Snippet from NNC article on Trump’s annoyance on not getting a Nobel Peace Proze Nomination:
“Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize close on
31 January of each year, according to the awards website, just days after Trump took office.”

Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

When we meet for a beer, I will make you yet another person to shake their head at me.

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

Politically engaged mates:
“Why don’t you consider public office, Shai”

Me:
“Very very good reasons”

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Jean-Charles Geslot @jcgeslot.bsky.social · 2d

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

God love my home county.

I not infrequently look back at the last 30(😱)yrs and consider how generally positive my life choices have been.

Those one or two insanely stupid things I have done are clearly due to S. yorks nurture.

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

*the man did the research”….
Sigh.

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

The man didn’t research so you don’t have to.

3kg of sweets in 3 days is likely bad for your health.

Important pre-Halloween EBM.

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 2d

Go on, Barak. Stick that knife in.

Go on, my son.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck you Lily…

Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 2d

Worthy of a Nobel peace prize.

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BookCPD @bookcpd.bsky.social · 4d

The West Suffolk FUSIC & FAMUS Ultrasound Course returns 6–7 Nov 2025 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 🇬🇧.

Sharpen your #POCUS skills & work towards #FUSIC & #FAMUS accreditation.
👉 For ICU, Acute Med, Anaesthetics & ED clinicians.

WWW.BOOKCPD.COM

@rcoanews.bsky.social @rcem.ac.uk

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