Greg Moorlock

Bioethicist, mostly transplant ethics. Associate Professor. Academic Lead for Phase 1 and VLE WMS MBChB. Deeply personal views, obv.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

https://t.co/VSZh73vWwb

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

There’s a joke in there somewhere.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

@theJeremyVine I think you messed up his Strava segment.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

@AbbieTBee Come back and work here then!

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

@dr_i_malik It’s dishonesty, and repeated dishonesty about that dishonesty. In a trusted profession where probity is centred, that’s a serious departure from the professional standards to which she knows she is held. Do you think her dishonesty was justified/defensible?

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

Pig organ transplants could one day be superior to human ones, says expert https://t.co/fP4bV4o9c7

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

Hmmm, not sure that this reflects brilliantly on my research…

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

@AllisonPearson I’m not convinced that ‘Who Allison knows’ really passes the quality test for robust evidence.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

Headline aside (which should be medical students, not doctors…) but key message is sensible. Appropriate people should be teaching medical students appropriate things. Often, although not always, this will be doctors. Just let me teach the ethics please.

[Dr Matt Morgan @dr_mattmorgan]

I love science. I owe my medical career to an inspiring science teacher who made the Krebs cycle sparkle and mitochondria memorable. At medical school I was lucky enough to learn from amazing scientists who turned complicated theories into fascinating stories. My PhD years immersed me in research alongside world leading scientists, and these days I collaborate daily with scientists whose insights continuously reshape my clinical thinking.

Yet I’ve noticed a troubling trend: medical students increasingly find themselves mostly taught by scientists or educationalists, even on clinical aspects where they have little or no experience. Like most trends, this boils down to time and money. Clinical academics, despite being vital educators, are both expensive and irritatingly elusive. Read more here . . . should doctors be taught by doctors? @bmj_latest

https://t.co/vb8e3dlIfa

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

And the real amount...

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

E.ON make a big deal out of the donation that they'll make to the Woodland Trust if I choose one of their tariffs.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

Now, I did think that £500,000 might be over generous. But maybe the phrasing here is deliberately ambiguous.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

@MJA9622 No, Dad.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

The most tedious of weekend tasks, but new dirt cheap vinyl floor in the garage in an attempt to make it slightly more tolerable in there.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

Spent the morning working on my corporate re-brand.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

Sadly not my preferred two words.

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

2 jobs, 2 person specs. One at Assistant Professor level, one more senior at Associate Professor level. One pays £58-67.5k, the other £68-95.5k. You can guess which is which, naturally.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

This is what a REAL scientific breakthough looks like

Not that Tylenol stuff

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

@valhumphreys51 (It’s not quite that clear cut, of course, because things like probity and integrity relate to so many other things - but that’s the overall shape)

[Greg Moorlock @gregdoesethics]

@valhumphreys51 We teach all of this, but at separate ends of the course. Typically save negligence until late in course because (amongst other reasons) we want students to not fixate on avoiding negligence as being the appropriate thing to aim for. We cover probity and integrity towards start.