Dr Mark D. Lopez

Dad of 4 (and counting), Fiancé, Gibraltarian, Doctor / GP

🧠Mental health⚕️Medicine💊Equality of opportunity🦸🏽‍♀️Human rights✊🏾Politics

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

Here is my opinion piece on the lifting of the lockdown restrictions and should we be implementing face covers or masks to avoid a sharp second wave of infected cases?
Covid-19, Masks and the precautionary principle.
#Gibraltar

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@antmillionsbot @grok .

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@FabianPicardo Esta noche a descansar tranquilo!
Good work!

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@JohnBarritt @LeadingReport Parents would be able to add to it, it's also an incentive to save.

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@reb_calderon To busy to reply further, but no offence, just speaking up when I feel comments towards another human are nitpicky / bullying / unfair/ etc.
This fits that category somewhere.
Let the man breathe, take up another hobby?

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@reb_calderon **rolls eyes** I envy your free time

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@jaybokh Thats my Go To! For the price of one box from Morrisons I can get a bag of fruit from La Linea.
Last week the Strawberry box at Morrisons was still crazy high.

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@Calderon76J Im no lawyer, but i suspect it was/needs to be court ordered. In UK Adult children can apply for maintenance to continue.
Some 18yo might be cut off. So means testing their parents in my op. Doesn't make sense.
Discretionary grant applications make sense to me..

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@Calderon76J *applying

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

Why would you means test the parents of Adults? When they leave to uni they are all Adults, 18. The parents of these adults are not apply for the scholarship, the adult students are.
I've never thought we would be pushing for the parents of Adults to be means tested. 🧐😵‍💫
Would be like means testing my parents for my housing application.

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@Calderon76J You mean the students?

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@RGPolice Heros

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

It's clear that the separation made in Medicine doesn't fit us all.
Who's connecting the Mind-body symptoms we frequently encounter?
One more reason why in this last year I've specialised in Lifestyle Medicine; the more holistic, patient centred approach to healing that Mind-body connection.

https://t.co/sH8R5OxQMo

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@jochaguy I'm sorry to hear that. Gib isn't as safe as it once was. I'd get airtags or GPS on your valued possessions.

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@RoyalCaribbean We have the Allure Amplified booked for September 2025. Can't wait to see the upgrade!

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

@BurnsideWasTosh If they're in France they're safe. So what's the reason to cross over is my Question?
I'd really like to see an answer I'm satisfied by.

[Dr Done @Dr_Done_]

BREAKING:

PA jobs become absolutely redundant.

They’ve been sold a lie.

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

Great news for Patient Safety imo.
Might need to rethink scope of practice for our own PAs in Gib with the presumed guidelines..?

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

So it seems that the @RCPhysicians PA scope of practice document has been leaked to the @Telegraph tonight.

Some key take home points:
‘In emergency departments, PAs will no longer be able to diagnose or discharge patients’.

‘PAs must never conduct hospital appointments without a senior, supervising doctor in the clinic’.

‘PAs must never fill in for doctors, prescribe medication, or request x-rays’.

A step forward for patient safety by the RCP, which is everyone’s main priority.

https://t.co/4e8Tg8jbzN

[Dr Mark D. Lopez @MDLopezMD]

Yes. In the same way you learn that when you sneeze you won't die by the time you're an adult you kinda figure that out.. as a GP we also give medical education and we can also signpost what is not appropriate for the GP either.
You can do that at triage/reception.
And definitely do that at every clinical interaction.