Sarah

Christian, mother of a neurodivergent child, Gastroenterology specialist nurse with an interest in nutrition. Views my own.

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

This is Mariano Barbacid, a Spanish cancer researcher who recently made the news after finding a cure for an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer in mice. His lab developed a new triple therapy regimen targeting the KRAS cancer pathway, implicated in 90% of pancreatic cancers. The combination of daraxonsib, a RAS(ON) inhibitor, afatinib (EGFR/HER2 inhibitor) and SD36 (a selective STAT3 PROTAC) led to complete elimination of tumour cells over a 200 day study period, bringing much needed hope to this often devastating condition.

[Sarah @SA7A4]

@anaesthetic_spr I don’t disagree when it comes to things like ACPs on Drs rotas but that isn’t what is happening when it comes to nutrition/dietetics.

[Sarah @SA7A4]

@anaesthetic_spr There is a general lack of understanding about how nutrition and dietetics works. Many hospitals have an 8A Nutrition Nurse role and an 8A dietetic role. They are separate sub specialities which work very closely with each other but the roles are very separate.

[Sarah @SA7A4]

@anaesthetic_spr I guarantee an 8A would have far longer nutrition CNS experience than 4 years before being given that role too. Nurses are not given 8A roles straight after uni.

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

Important comic made by @RealityGirlZine.

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[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

A reminder that if you’re having blood tests to check liver function, it’s worth stopping strenuous exercise 1-2 days before to avoid falsely elevated results 💡

[Sarah @SA7A4]

@basilthegreat The girls obviously haven’t been forced to wearing the hijab as there are girls in the picture who aren’t wearing one. They may have asked if anyone wanted to? Being clumsy with your words does nothing for your overall argument.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Does she sing or not?

[Claire Bear (Sorcha) 🇮🇪 💜🤍💚 🫀 @claire88424030]

👌🏻👇🏻

[Aaron Richards 🇪🇺🇺🇦✠🛡️ @arun_richards]

Prophetic #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

[Sarah @SA7A4]

@parthaskar @CareQualityComm @NHSEnglandNMD @PSCommissioner @wesstreeting @DrAsifQasim @ShivaniM_KC @DrSelvarajah @ShrillaB @DrLKVaughan @COPDdoc @doctor_oxford @DrPhilBanfield @UKGastroDr @kidneydoc101

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

I think the events of today can’t be underestimated.

The GMC is an organisation designed to protect the public by regulating doctors, upholding medical standards and preventing non doctors from practicing medicine.

It has just accepted thousands of non doctors into itself

[Honestly with Bari Weiss @thehonestlypod]

UK Conservative Party leader @KemiBadenoch explains why she is a “gender critical feminist.”

“To say that you can just self-define as a woman, for me, has no basis whatsoever in reality. When I call myself a ‘feminist,’ it is about equality. I believe women should be able to do the same things as men. It’s about having equal agency and equal power.”

“One of the issues with feminism is that it became too academic and started going down rabbit holes, such as arguing that being a woman is merely a social construct. But no, it isn’t—it’s real, it’s biology. While there are stereotypes and social constructs, being a woman involves a shared experience that connects every woman on the planet.”

“What drives me crazy is seeing how the lives of young, sometimes very young, gay or autistic children are being destroyed in the name of trans activism, which often conflicts with feminism. Many women who call themselves feminists, in my view, are on the wrong side. They don’t understand what they are fighting for.”

“Meeting children and young people who have been effectively sterilized is horrific. How can people allow this to happen and justify it as just a matter of self-definition? I am very, very much against that.”

Watch the entire conversation: https://t.co/gJJQ2AhM9g

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

The babies born 18 weeks early – and surviving https://t.co/sAHTZy3p7r

[Sarah @SA7A4]

This is desperately sad

[Laura Becker🐦‍🔥 @LauraBeckerReal]

I was abused as a little girl by my father. Woke ideology told me if I hated myself I was trans.

That was a lie. I was always just an abused girl.

She didn’t deserve this.

[Long Li @LongLiPro]

Hi @wesstreeting, the profession specialising in diet and nutrition, using expertise to prevent and treat nutrition-related issues, is called Dietitians—not Physician Associates. Since you recognise the importance of diet, invest in dietitians for a healthier future!🤗👍🏻

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Thank you, ⁦@wesstreeting⁩.

If we don’t care enough about dying people to give them the care they need to make life worth living (and we don’t - palliative & hospice care is only 30% NHS funded) then how can we pretend the “choice” to end your life is genuinely free?

[Sarah @SA7A4]

@drmattuk University of Liverpool have already stopped their course. Agree others should follow suit!

[Lucy Webster @Lucy_Webster_]

A mostly nondisabled friend looked at me the other day and said "I'm not sure how I feel about assisted dying but it's interesting that if anyone else is suicidal we do everything to stop them but if they're disabled we want to help them"

yeah, I can't stop thinking about that