Gingerlady

Mum of 3 . Ginger vascular surgeon . Labrador owner. TATT. nolite te bastardes carborundorum .

[Laura Durcan @Rheum2improve]

So when people in very senior positions seek to throw shade at doctors.

I wonder about how much they are deflecting from their own failures.

Failures to address waiting lists. Failures to deliver on promises.

But sure. Take a punt at the people doing the work.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Alok Khorana, MD @aakonc]

Dara paper out in @nejm ahead of today's plenary #ASCO26
Many congratulations to @EileenMOReilly and colleagues for groundbreaking results and offering patients a new class of drug.
This is just the beginning - neoadjuvant, adjuvant, 1L strategies will all need to be revised!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

On September 11, 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert lost his father and two of his closest brothers, Paul and Peter, when Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashed into a cornfield hillside just three miles from the Charlotte, North Carolina airport. Only 13 of the 82 people on board survived. In a single afternoon, the youngest of eleven children in a warm, intellectually curious Catholic household went from a boy surrounded by laughter and big family energy to a kid sitting in a suddenly very quiet, very dark home with only his grieving mother for company. The two leaned on each other in a way that most people never experience. Lorna Colbert held herself together not out of bitterness, but out of a fierce, quiet love, and Stephen watched that and absorbed it into his bones. He later said his mother was never bitter, just broken, and that her example became the blueprint he carried for the rest of his life. For years, though, the real weight of the loss stayed buried. He floated through prep school detached, unbothered by the things other kids cared about, because nothing felt quite real anymore. It wasn't until he went off to Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia that the grief finally cracked through, and it hit him hard. He dropped from 185 pounds down to 135 during his freshman year, barely eating, barely functioning, consumed by a sadness he had held at bay for nearly a decade. But something remarkable happened on the other side of that collapse. He found theater. He found improvisation. He found that making people laugh was actually a way to connect with human suffering rather than run from it. He transferred to Northwestern University, stumbled into the world of Second City, and slowly built himself into one of the most empathetic, genuinely funny voices in American media. He later reflected that losing his father and brothers gave him an awareness of other people's pain that allowed him to love more deeply and connect more honestly with what it means to be human. That is not a small thing. That is everything. Via Chronicles Through Lenses

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Trump is gonna hate this photograph, it’d be a shame if it went viral.

[Julie Hallet @HalletJulie]

👋Different surgeons. Different hands.🧤

👥 25 female GI surgeons🇯🇵
Of staplers:
96% need both hands to fire
80% perceived strength limits on those devices

⚠️Current designs problematic for surgeons with different hand size & grip strength

https://t.co/5j2XjGa5Kd

[The Root @TheRoot]

A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Seamus Heaney, with Ireland's best-loved poem from the past century

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Attenborough at 100 — A Sting Cut
We know what humans think of David Attenborough: the greatest broadcaster in TV history. But what do the animals think?

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Little angels 🥹

[Gingerlady @gingerlady]

@jbconneely @Matersurgery 🐐

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Lol this is hilarious.

The Phillies had a kiss cam and had the Phillie Phanatic re-enact the Coldplay affair😂

[Eli EK MD @thesurgerylife]

When the Aortic dissection call turns out to be ascending and not descending #aortaed

[Gingerlady @gingerlady]

@farkomd I just want to know what brand of headlight you are using ! Fantastic illumination of field

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

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.

The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.

[Gingerlady @gingerlady]

@fiannafailparty Incredible value . Could only get a bike shed for that elsewhere 🤔

[DrMáireT @MaireTNC]

A shortage of doctors doesn’t mean we should replace them with people who aren’t doctors. Find ways to allow more to study medicine. And more importantly, treat the doctors you do have well so that they stay!

[Gingerlady @gingerlady]

@elonmusk Assholes-95% men

[Gingerlady @gingerlady]

@DrBenLovell Great stress reliever - wallop it off a desk and listen to the glorious note !