Emily Howells

Craft and comedy enthusiast, intensivist and obstetric anaesthetist. Walking the South West coast path. Emotionally always in pyjamas

[Iain Beardsell @docib]

As we winter deepens some advice from an aging Emergency Doctor about how to keep going, sometimes smiling and very occasionally thriving

1, Control the controllable—health policy and funding are not your responsibility, and you do not need to feel guilty or responsible for them

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

‘I had no idea being a social drinker would damage my liver by 31’ https://t.co/qIlooDsM2o

[NHS Organ Donation 💗🫀🫁 @NHSOrganDonor]

Did you know you can register your #OrganDonation decision in the NHS app?

It'll be the best thing you do today!

#SaveLives #NHS

[Gail Myerscough @GailMyerscough]

Looking for unique #Christmas gifts?
You might like my prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture
https://t.co/a4du7saKv5

[Emily Howells @emh102]

@KathyBurke @GailMyerscough Oh wow, thank you so much! 💙

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

It’s giveaway time! RT for a chance to win a gorgeous A3 print of your choice by the fabulous @GailMyerscough and I’ll pick a winner on Monday. Visit https://t.co/vrz5wdah2O for more lovely goodies at affordable prices. Good luck!

[Emily Howells @emh102]

@clare_eliza @walsh_joe Same in the south west

[NHS Organ Donation 💗🫀🫁 @NHSOrganDonor]

Our annual Ethnicity in Organ Donation report shows a 5-year high in transplants for ethnic minority patients. But with donations down and over 2,300 waiting, it’s vital for people to register and share their decision with loved ones.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/D8gfyDQ811

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

No one can say they didn't know. No one can claim blindness to this suffering. No one can pretend their ears did not hear the cries of children.

But when it's over, and history books are written. Those who were silent or celebrated this, will say to their grandchildren: "Wasn't that a tragedy" "We had no idea of the horrors" "We never supported it"
"Had we known what was happening....".

Well technology has given us one wonderful tool: information. History will no longer be written by the victors, but the people of Palestine who documented and recorded every aspect of their torture and annihilation. Who documented and recorded this for the world to never forget, to expose silence as support and to make sure their plight will be told in one way, and one way only: the truth.

📸: Gaza, yesterday. Waiting for aid.

[Dr. Farbod MBBCh FRCEM @EmergencyBod]

To save a life you just need to know basic CPR and the location of your nearest defibrillator.

For a free 15 minute lesson on how to perform CPR go to:
https://t.co/gHKmmtu0ZM
To find your nearest defibrillator go to:
https://t.co/f4UQmDR8Yf

In an emergency 1st always call 999.

[Emily Howells @emh102]

@WelshGasDoc So sorry for your loss, I am so glad their care was good

[MSF International @MSF]

Our colleague Dr Mohammed Obeid has been detained by Israeli forces along with other medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza.

We’ve officially requested information on his detention and call for his, and all medical staff's, protection.

https://t.co/BlZHJivQ0R

[Somerset Cricket 🏆 @SomersetCCC]

A brilliant opportunity! ⤵️

[MAMA Study @TheMAMAStudy]

Thank you for all of the interest so far! Does your obstetric unit see women on biologics for inflammatory arthritis in pregnancy? Could you participate as recruiting sites for the MAMA Study? If you are interested please email us at [email protected]
@NPEU_Oxford @NPEU_CTU

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Problem is that uptake is quite low. About 40% for covid vaccine & 42% for flu vax in pregnancy.

Uptake of whooping cough vaccine was only 60% last winter - 15% points lower than in 2017. This year has seen more babies died of pertussis. 13/17

[Sethina Watson @morefluids]

Grabbing that IV glass jar of paracetamol? Some environmental nudges to make you think

The carbon footprint of various paracetamol preparation

https://t.co/H35WG6VKoZ

[Andy Conway Morris 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @andymoz78]

In my professional lifetime I’ve seen the NHS go from bad (1995-2000) to dramatic improvements (2000-2010) and decline (2010-2024). It is fixable, we fixed it before. It won’t be immediate and it won’t be cheap, but the alternative is far, far more costly.

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).

I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.

Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.

I open my original photo.
No bra showing.

I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...

Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨

Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)

He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.

He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.

She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.

AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯

—

FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

[Lisa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙 😊 @LisaT79]

Here is why no one wants to go into nursing. My pin hasn't arrived yet. I can't afford to pay for my registration. Only England charges for nurse training. 9% of my salary for the next 30 yrs & I'm 45.