Jonathan Ramachenderan

✞=♡ | PGY 20 | Pain Medicine Specialist , Palliative Care Generalist | Writer | Husband to Kylie and Dad to Sam, HJ & Benji

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

Mixed emotions today as my piece is published in the @australian about #burnout

A rural GP colleague of mine committed suicide recently and all of us are still reeling.

A career in medicine must come with a warning but also education about the stresses & strains of doctoring

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

You know that feeling you get when you want to use Ketamine lozenges as a second-line option for a patient with severe pancreatic cancer pain, but their liver enzymes are all in the 1000s?

Yeah, I had it today.

#firstworldcancerpainmanagementproblems

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@InvestLikeBest @buhrman_rick Hi Rick, I was listening! And I love that, kindness is pursuing and honing my craft radically as a doctor in service to others ❤️

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@Naily2025 @clowndownunder @grok Doctor here, no.

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

Why does this always happen with our home games?

That last minute, talk about anxious basketball!

Thank God for the win.

@PerthWildcats @NBL

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

This has never been so true right now in our world.

Tolerance is treating a person you powerfully disagree with, with respect, humility and love.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Tolerance is not approving an opinion you do not hold. It's about treating the person --who's saying what you can powerfully disagree with--with respect, humility, and love.

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

I have attended two funerals in the last 3 weeks - this is what funerals can teach us about living and dying well

https://t.co/WYbnOaoIvu

#PalliativeCare #EndOfLifeCare #Palliativemedicine #MattersOfLifeAndDeath #wisdom

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

Why Being a Generalist can Make You a better Specialist (and the Rural superpower)
https://t.co/lCZEavA8rp via @LinkedIn

#medicine #ruralmedicine #specialist #ruralgeneralist #palliativecare #painmedicine #generalpractice #anaesthesia #gpanaesthetist

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

9 ways that we can better manage chronic pain at work

#chronicpain #painmedicine #pain @ChronicPainAust

https://t.co/hlu8xBfVMb

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

Interesting - Walking is the number one non-pharmacological intervention I prescribe to my patients with low back pain.

#painmedicine #chronicpain

https://t.co/AylFVDLkJF

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@DKarikios @DrAbhiPal @franboyleAM @csoncol Oh, that would be excellent to read! I'm intrigued.

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@nathan_warner Nice work Nathan! I've been following your progress on Strava. That's a massive effort.

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

How to approach the Faculty of Pain Medicine ANZCA Fellowship exam - A personal reflection

For anyone interested in Pain Medicine or the Fellowship AND in the spirit of #FOAMed, please take a look.

#Painmedicine @ANZCA_FPM

https://t.co/2xnu3ACCWo

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@diarmuidmccoy @mickvagg Oh my gosh that’s some extreme chiropractic!!

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@deep_dab Extreme chiropractic 🤣☠️

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@illawarrahawks aren't my team but MAN you have to respect a comeback story!!

Loving their brand of basketball under Coach Tatum.

#NBL24 #nbl

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

Congratulations to my boss, mentor and friend Professor Kirsten Auret on her AM!

You know in medicine and in life when you are truly in the presence of someone special, a next level thinker, an excellent and passionate clinician - Kirsten is this person.

#PalliativeCare

[Albany Advertiser @AlbanyAd]

From her first rotation as a junior doctor in Perth, Professor Kirsten Auret found she loved the work done by the teams of people looking after patients in palliative care. https://t.co/k1smcmTScO

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

Pain worsens if you don’t do anything to manage it.

Leaving it is easy, taking medicine is easy however stretching each day, building strength and being functional and reframing your thoughts is hard.

But never doing this makes your pain unbearable. It’s a negative cycle 🔁

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy.

Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder.

Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder.

Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder.

Easy has a cost.

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

Spirituality is a connection, it isn't religion.

However, some of us will express our spirituality through our faith.

This talk is about remembering those important connections in the face of suffering, looking towards what provides us hope to get through difficult times.

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

The spiritual dimension of medicine - this is my TEDx talk.

Medicine doesn't simply exist in the physical but rather there is a spiritual dimension to all physical suffering.

https://t.co/7E1bvimWkD

[Jonathan Ramachenderan @drjonathanrama]

@ANZCA_FPM I can absolutely say it was an excellent day and a wonderful result for many!!

Thank you to everyone at the FPM office and team for making it run so well!! 👍🏾🏆