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@MikeMcNamara Is your email down? Are the SSM group ok for the paper on tuesday? I had posted Rory's lecture and PAC notes on Bb b4 I left.

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@MikeMcNamara #gfpath In a 2.2 OSCE, yes. If the task requires it. Your last tweet had 2 "&apos"! I've reverted to IE for some sites : (

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#gfpath...anybody else affected by the twitter apostrophe curse? Greetings from Malaysia btw!

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#gfpath Tweeting now from London Stansted airport en route to Kuala Lumpur. Is it just me or does twitter turn apostrophes into "&apos"?!

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@clanen #gfpath No. SIADH causes a dilutional hyponatraemia but should not raise the blood pressure.

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#gfpath How did your H&D MCQ go today? I'm tweeting from the Dublin-Galway train! Only 18 followers? : (

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#gfpath Does anybody know why twitter turns apostrophes into "'"-ezes? For a pedant like me, this deviation is quite upsetting : (

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#gfpath Why do heavily pregnant women suffer a drop in their blood pressure on adopting certain postures?

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@MOLarVolume #gfpath Correct, Mark! One tweet just isn't enough for your answers. 140 words does force the tweeterer to be concise though: )

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@Sparkelate #gfpath How many different kinds of shock do you know of? Does pregnancy cause hypotension??

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@SharonC070 #gfpath Yes Sharon, postural hypotension, but mainly in primary adrenal insufficiency, not secondary. Anybody know why?

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#gfpath Yes, Morcheen (!), we do prescribe KCl for patients orally but it causes GI discomfort and they often don't like it.

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@Morcheen #gfpath KCl administered IV causes cardiac arrest! It's difficult to detect post mortem, unless aqueous humour is analysed.

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@Sparkelate #gfpath There is no cutoff for low BP. If BP drops owing to disease, symptoms usually arise. Can you think of any causes?

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@MikeMcNamara #gfpath Correct.