Endocrinologist, writer, Melbourne. Passionate about women’s health and hormones, equity, medical education. Love big skies and perfectly-formed sentences.
🧵1/4 We’re thrilled to share that our final 12-month visits with participants are done! This means that our trial, which began in February 2021, is now over and we can start to analyse the results with the aim of sharing them in 2024. Our mum’s have been amazing...
Congrats to Kate Rassie for winning the People’s Choice Award @ the @MonashHealth Translation Precinct (MHTP) PhD Symposium! 👏🥳
Kate is a Monash Health clinician & 2nd year #MCHRI PhD candidate, focusing on the relationship between maternal metabolic conditions & breastfeeding.
🧵A new state-of-the-art review published in @TheLancetEndo by 🌏 leaders in #PCOS research & care @HelenaTeede & @AnjuJoham aims to pave the way to better diagnosis & care for #women with PCOS. Read the story of Lorna who had to self-diagnose her #PCOS👉 https://t.co/fDZyzVJ8Y6
Nana babysitting for our first evening out in a while and honestly this (thankfully misspelled) text I got midway through dinner had me a little worried 😂
Students who were forced to be resilient their whole lives don’t need another conversation about grit. They need resources, guidance, sponsorship, advocacy….etc.
He had an inkling months ago: never home for dinner, shoulderblades sharp under her T-shirt.
He strokes her downy arm. Her eyes are big and hollow above her feeding tube.
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Working your job while working on your mental health while working on your relationships while working on physical health while working on your family while working on sleep habits while working on self-care while working on exercise while working on personal goals while working
Father Bernard grips the altar; the pressure in his chest intense. He is sweating profusely. As he raises the sacramental wine, his legs subside. His cassock billows as he falls.
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She wakes (into the new year!) with firebrand headache, dry mouth. There’s a wine bottle on the bedstand. She remembers moonlight, sand dunes, a hot vomit splattering onto gravel.
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Intermittent fasting! they cry; with their washboard torsos. She may be a flinty CEO, but the eight minutes before she’s permitted her egg-white omelette reduces her to shuddery tears.
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Amiodarone is an old anti-arrhythmic agent which means it can effect your LFTs, PFTs, and TFTs but not your NFTs because it's old and doesn't understand what they are.