Addenbrookes (ACE III) as Gaeilge
Comhghairdeas Aoife, Elaine JB @DSIDCDementia, ní fhaca mé go dtí seo.
agus an fáth go bhfuil sé tábhachtach....
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Co-decision-making is the middle of the three new tiers of support in the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. It's a new and challenging concept and the capacity test for assessors is complex. My take and personal views just out..
Our take on (sometimes surreptitious) monitoring cameras in residents' rooms: it is complicated, ethically and legally challenging and no panacea for poor care.
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Comment on implications of Egawa et al (Int Urol Nephrol (2025)) which found a severity-dependent association between dysphagia and the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in older patients.
As I read some health policies/ guidelines
“When you communicate clearly, people can see your ideas might be wrong or banal,” he says. “That’s scary. So jargon becomes a shield.”
Really powerful article from @jonathanmoens.bsky.social
and colleagues about the abuse of older people through restraints. Focuses on Italy, Spain and Portugal but occurs much more widely
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Only 40% “almost always” inform patients of the risks associated with altered texture solids. More than one in five were unable to select even one known risk associated with MDTs. A lot of improvement needed but well done to Drs Matthew Ward and Angela Bowman for highlighting.
It is great to see this now examined in a US survey of 326 speech-language pathologists, but not so great to see our fears confirmed . Less than half participants “almost always” inform the patient of the risks associated with thickened liquids.
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We previously noted – albeit mainly based on indirect evidence that here is ample reason to suggest that current consent practices for modified texture diets is suboptimal but suggested that the topic needed further research.
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Valid informed consent requires provision of accurate and balanced information, and that agreement is given freely by someone who knows they have a choice. This is true for use of modified texture diets (MTDs) in dysphagia as for other healthcare interventions
Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Why risk feeding your children?
Recent posts show a shift to promoting empathy and even being primarily performative. Back to basics! The real challenge is changing current practice.
Another stimulating and painless collaboration
@arlenemccurtin.bsky.social
@lindsey_UoB
@DominikaLis007
@tlpslt.bsky.social
@profpleslie
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Our take on thickened liquid and modified texture diet #challenges. Originally @ewidera.bsky.social - and still if used correctly - a valuable role in highlighting the impact of modified diets and encouraging staff to reflect on the appropriateness of their use
rdcu.be/ebsDM
Just out. Featuring this drawing of his own hallucination by a talented patient: “shiny, silvery” “big, deep, dark eyes, like holes” “almost stretched mouth” “a bit unusual maybe but rather pretty and graceful”.
Here's a controversy I didn't know existed!
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2015 "nip this “reaching out” nonsense in the bud before it “becomes a thing”" www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/p...
Alas hasn't worked: 3 emails already today.
Stop it!!
Wonderful article, and sad also in how long effective dx and Tx were delayed. Iron not a panacea - but remember when considering it's not serum iron that counts but the stores - check ferritin/ trans sats www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Delighted to see this published. Open access .. See rdcu.be/d4ST1.
@tcddublin.bsky.social @dysphagiamatters.bsky.social
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social
The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy
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“Dubious Doctors” by Suzanne Buffam, ending with “All Doctors of Literature”
Forever burned by Suzanne Buffam
Can’t stop thinking about this @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social column on the poor quality of sound on Spotify and what other reductions in quality that might become commonplace in the future:
Wonderful book or rather quartet
Know the feeling
Like reading Mount Misery after House of God
Or Closing Time after Catch-22
Reviewing this. I couldn’t put it down. Piller has done a fantastic and diligent job detailing individual instances of fraudulent Alzheimer research, the resulting contamination of our field and the troubling complacency of research leaders about the problem. Landmark book that will make you angry.
Two authors I've read 50 or more books by:
PG Wodehouse
Georges Simenon
Feeling the urge right now!
Grandiose website: “The European Society of Medicine is more than a professional association. We are a community”. The community includes any “institutions whose members have published articles in the society’s journal”.
Avoid
