A point of view. Thought you might like this. @doced.bsky.social

kancelaria-skarbiec.pl/en/the-death...

I wonder if ficm as a formal group representing can have a say?

Clinicians or Court: Who decides about medical treatment options? Exploring the case of Townsend v Epsom The Court of Appeal decision of Townsend v Epsom would change medical law fundamentally, but we should not overreact pending any appeal...

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This ruling is just a lot to unpack. 😨

@ficm.bsky.social is here on Bluesky. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Give a follow iCM people ! :)

Securing patient data in large-scale AI healthcare development: AI Centre and deepc launch FLIP | King's College London The AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare, King’s College London, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, together with strategic partner deepc, in collaboration with OneLondon and Flower Labs, ...

Proud to be part of this ! Excellent work from the team.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/securin...

Seshagiri Rao Mallampati Seshagiri Rao Mallampati (1941 – ) Indian born American anesthesiologist. Eponym: Mallampati Score used to predict the ease of endotracheal intubation

Very sadly Seshagiri Mallampati, the anesthesiologist who devised the Mallampati score, die two weeks ago. He only retired in 2017, 49 years after he began clinical practice.

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This is basically my villain origin story.

"How old are you?" (unique responses)

OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c

Now it's over to users!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

Sending u best energy. Partner got morning sickness for months … one of the worst thing she said. And there’s nothing “morning” about morning sickness either .. (the misnomer!!) May all beings be nausea free 🙏

3/7!! 🙏

That’s how I feel too. With my nice cup of coffee !
I did phem at a great place for elective. Admire the skillset and teams and the review mechanisms but solidifies my approach for hospital based.

What incredibly historic meeting took place in Methodist Central Hall 80 years ago? YouTube video by Jack Chesher- Living London History

Proud to have graduated at this venue @ficm.bsky.social and didn’t realise its history ! youtube.com/shorts/VqtA9...

Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory

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🎥 Maximizing donor pool: #ECMO driven advances in #transplantation: ELSO & @ishlt.bsky.social #ELSO2025 session
🧠 diagnosing BD in #ECLS
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⚖️ ethical dilemmas of #ECLS, DCD, NRP
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Go Arthur!

NHS 2025: a wobbly triadic stool and a gig economy The NHS sits seventh on the list of the world’s largest employers, rubbing shoulders with the armies of China, India, and the US, as well as mega-corporations.1 It’s also part of the “gig economy.” Th...

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social shines with this scathing editorial on the mess that has been made with locally employed Doctors (LEDs) in the U.K.

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Hope ya like it ! And then the yes minister :)

I do both but lately more python. Agree with article. Python advantage is that for productionising & abstracting away a lot - then the OOP & its design patterns make it much much easier: article alludes to it with DL & MLOps productionise PyTorch. But R for win if doing mixed effect models.

Textbook page with same quote

Firstly, do no (net) harm.

~ (adapted from) Hippocrates

Reading Hunink et al (2014) this morning…

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So a recent Veritasium video on natural selection explains kin selection and does the unavoidable thing of saying that a parent shares "half of its genes with the child". This is wrong, because for any 2 humans, we share almost all of our genes. We share more than 95% with chimpanzees ffs. >>

This honestly should be required reading for anyone undertaking (or evaluating) exploratory studies... ⬇️👍 (It's proper funny too 😅)

NEW paper "Clinical prediction models using machine learning in oncology: challenges and recommendations"

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#machinelearning #prediction #statssky #MLsky #methodsmatter

Cool cake

Whisky is so apt

We talk about SDd every few years don’t we and my experience is that even in its heyday .. in my uk practice .. never get enough buy in from micro to do it and become a thing.

As in why mortality is such a high end point or whether it should be used as threshold?

Which reminds me of this old classic on the Noise Miners.

“'Noise mining is a funny thing,' he said. 'When you first see a bit of noise, it doesn’t look so impressive. But as you work it out of the rock, it gets more and more refined.' This process, he explained, is called 'shucking.'"

Remembering the most likely mediator of reduced mortality in the original EGDT therapy was the presence of the CI in the intervention arm, the regular attendance of an interested and informed clinician (and skilled ICU nurse) likely has a bigger impact than any single drug or intervention.

I don’t understand why we are seeing a temporal effect with results. May be other things are changing ?!