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[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Can't believe that I agree with Suella Braverman here!

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

Classic BBC. Find a high performing school and then ridicule it.

Schools should be places of discipline, too many kids are allowed to disrupt and get away with it. That then filters into our society. Enough.

And what about having proper textbooks again?

So many are happy with mediocrity. High standards needed.

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

@neilorpen TBF it's a poisoned chalice

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Worth noting that neonatal resuscitation by midwives is a mess. It's a hit and miss at best. And ensure that someone is there to advocate for you and your baby when delivering. The woman would be barely aware of the surroundings and very much exhausted physically and mentally.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

If you are pregnant, some heartfelt advice.

* Avoid a midwife-led unit. They’re not safe. You need to be near an operating theatre and intensive care.

* Labour can go wrong in minutes. Don’t be complacent.

* if you think something feels wrong trust your maternal instinct.

* Don’t be fobbed off or sent home if you know you’re in labour. Some midwives are saints, others are bullies. Insist on your right to have care in hospital.

* if they induce you, chances are you will end up with a C-section. That’s fine. No need for disappointment. Your goal is a healthy living baby.

* If you’re in too much pain get your husband/partner to express your wishes. Be polite but firm. Your baby’s life may depend on you or its dad speaking up.

* If labour has gone on too long - my first was 24 hours - baby needs to come out. Say you want a C-section. Don’t fall for “normal birth” ideology beloved of too many midwives. Insist on a C-section.

* There is no such thing as a normal birth. Getting the baby out alive and not brain damaged is what matters.

* These are the most vital and precious hours of your life. Don’t be intimidated. You are the only voice your child has. Some midwives are out of their depth: request a doctor. You’re entitled to a doctor.

* if a midwife is rude or unpleasant say you are making a formal complaint. Request a second opinion - that is the law!

* chances are it will be fine. Just bear all of the above in mind. Enjoy your beautiful baby! ❤️

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[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Can't wait to get my hands on this! One of my favorite books

[Joseph Jankovic @JankovicJoseph]

The 9th edition of NICP, the bible of neurology, was just published. I thank my co-editors and Elsevier for making this achievement possible. @MichaelOkun @movedisorder @dmrf @ParkinsonDotOrg @ParkinsonismD @FNDSociety @PDCMDC

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Gaslighting at its peak!

[LBC @LBC]

'Doctors have taken over maternity, and they're not doing it very well.'

Former president of the Royal College of Midwives, Caroline Flint, is 'distraught' by the news of further maternity failings in the NHS.

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

@Johnrashton47 Can you please clarify how doctors are privileged? And claps don't pay bills.

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

Margaret Hamilton, the lead software developer for Apollo program, stands beside the towering stack of code she and her team wrote by hand software that helped guide humanity to the Moon in 1969.

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Be relentless!!

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Roger Federer: "Effortless is a myth. I worked very hard to make it look easy."

"I left school at age 16 to play tennis full-time. So I never went to college. But I did graduate recently. I graduated tennis. I know the word is 'retire', but retired sounds awful. Like you, I finished one big thing and I'm moving on to the next. Like you, I'm figuring out what that is."

Lesson 1: Effortless is a myth.

"People would say my play was 'effortless.' Most of the time, they meant it as a compliment. But it frustrated me when they'd say, 'He barely broke a sweat' or 'Is he even trying?' The truth is, I had to work very hard to make it look easy."

Roger shares the wake-up call:

"An opponent at the Italian Open publicly questioned my mental discipline. He said, 'Roger will be the favorite for the first two hours. Then I'll be the favorite after that.' Everyone can play well the first two hours you're fit, you're fast, you're clear. After two hours, your legs get wobbly, your mind starts wandering, your discipline starts to fade. My parents, my coaches, even my rivals were calling me out. So I started to train harder. A lot harder."

He explains the paradox:

"I got the reputation for being 'effortless' because my warmups at tournaments were so casual that people didn't think I'd been training hard. But I had been working hard before the tournament when nobody was watching."

Roger redefines talent:

"Yes, talent matters. But talent has a broad definition. Most of the time, it's not about having a gift, it's about having grit. A great forehand can be called a talent. But discipline is also a talent. Patience is a talent. Trusting yourself is a talent. Embracing the process, loving the process, these are talents too. Some people are born with them. Everybody has to work at them."

Lesson 2: It's only a point.

"You can work harder than you thought possible and still lose. I have many times. Tennis is brutal. Every tournament ends the same way: one player gets a trophy. Every other player gets back on a plane, stares out the window, and thinks, 'How the hell did I miss that shot?'"

Roger shares the statistic that changed his mindset:

"In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points do you think I won? Only 54%. Even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play."

He explains what this teaches:

"When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot. You teach yourself to think: 'Okay, I double-faulted. It's only a point.' 'I came to the net and got passed again. It's only a point.' Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN's Top 10, that too is just a point."

Roger shares the key mindset:

"When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you. This frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus."

He reflects on losing Wimbledon 2008:

"Some call it the greatest match of all time. Okay, all respect to Rafa, but I think it would've been way better if I had won. Looking back, I feel like I lost at the very first point. I looked across the net and saw a guy who just a few weeks earlier crushed me in straight sets at the French Open. And I thought, 'This guy is maybe hungrier than I am.' It took me until the third set to remember 'Hey buddy, you're the five-time defending champion. You're on grass. You know how to do this.' But it came too late."

Roger shares what champions understand:

"The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It's because they know they'll lose again and again, and have learned how to deal with it. You accept it. Cry it out if you need to. Then force a smile. Move on. Be relentless. Adapt and grow. Work harder, work smarter."

Lesson 3: Life is bigger than the court.

"A tennis court is 2,106 square feet. That's where singles matches happen. Not much bigger than a dorm room. I worked a lot, learned a lot, and ran a lot of miles in that small space. But the world is a whole lot bigger than that."

Roger explains his philosophy:

"Even when I was just starting out, I knew that tennis could show me the world, but tennis could never be the world. I knew that if I was lucky, I could play competitively until my late 30s, maybe even 41. But even when I was in the top five, it was important to me to have a life, a rewarding life full of travel, culture, friendships, and especially family. These are the reasons I never burned out."

He shares what matters most:

"Tennis has given me so many memories. But my off-court experiences are the ones I carry forward just as much. The places I've travelled, the platform that lets me give back, and most of all the people I've met along the way."

Roger concludes:

"Tennis, like life, is a team sport. Yes, you stand alone on your side of the net. But your success depends on your team, your coaches, your teammates, even your rivals. All these influences help make you who you are."

His final words:

"Whatever game you choose, give it your best. Go for your shots. Play free. Try everything. And most of all, be kind to one another, and have fun out there."

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

How many of them became millionaires?

[David Senra @davidsenra]

James Dyson saw the education system failing and built his own university.

Recruits at 17. Students work in the business full time. He pays them.

"You're saddled with that debt for a long time — sometimes twenty years. Big institutions, expensive institutions, with people only there part time — it's madness."

"Working with people who are having to do things, not academics — people having to do things and having to do them in a hurry."

"We need to find a different way to teach people."

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Student loans need a rethink. Why does education have to be so expensive? They need to look at the global south where state funded education doesn't burn a hole in your pocket!

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

On my @LBC show last night, NHS nurse Elliot with £100,000 in student debt - who says he’d have to be earning £80,000 a year just to keep pace with the interest he owes. He accrued extra interest during the pandemic because he took time out of studying to help with the Covid response.

And Kieran, a young solicitor who calculated that he’ll have to pay a total of £250,000 on a initial loan of less than £30,000 because the interest keeps going up and up. He pays back £3,500 a year, of which £3,200 is just interest. But his wealthier friends don’t pay a penny because their parents just paid their uni fees for them outright.

“Fair”, @RachelReevesMP? In what world?

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

AI won't displace doctors. That's just fear mongering

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

If you're studying to become:

- a lawyer
- doctor
- investment banker
- accountant
- copywriter
- coder
- graphic designer

You should probably stop wasting your time. AI is going to take your job.

Do the things machines will never be able to replace.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

If you're studying to become:

- a lawyer
- doctor
- investment banker
- accountant
- copywriter
- coder
- graphic designer

You should probably stop wasting your time. AI is going to take your job.

Do the things machines will never be able to replace.

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Has this been verified??

[International Medical Graduates-UK (IMG-UK) @IMGAUK]

We have been told that one of these candidates is/was involved in an exploitative international training fellowship programme currently under review.
Do the colleges do due diligence in the election process?

@ArunBaksi @parthaskar @drmattuk @mmamas1973 @Xeon4f145d96s1

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A reminder from Atomic Habits:

New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Absolutely loved it! Especially the epiphany you had while playing chess!! Truly inspiring

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

‘The Thinking Game’ documentary has just passed 200M views on YouTube in just 4 weeks! 🤯Perfect holiday viewing if you’re interested in a behind-the-scenes look at how an AGI lab works, or what goes into making a Nobel Prize winning project like AlphaFold happen.🧬🚀

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

@parthaskar @bmj_latest You forgot about pay!! If everyone is paid at the correct nodal point, imagine the amount of money lost by the NHS. Just curious, will ppl be offered more SAS contracts?

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.”
Genes-> Medicine @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/WLWMQtUj31

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Kudos to your son. His grit is truly inspiring.

[Andrew Crapuchettes @ACrapuchettes]

My son was a benchwarmer for various sports at his school for several years.

He was super diligent and worked hard, but we didn’t have the body mass or the hand-eye coordination to be successful in sports like football or Lacross.

Three years ago, the cross-country coach talked him into joining the team. He was not sold on the concept of getting up early and running but thought he would give it a try.

What he found was that his natural diligence played really well into distance running. He had a good season and then went on to be successful in track as a Sophomore and did even better as a Junior.

He could’ve just enjoyed now being an asset to his school and someone who did pretty well. But instead, he spent the past couple summers running and training hard. In fact, he now runs 60 miles a week on top of speed training, lifting, etc.

On Saturday, this kid just WON STATE in the 5k with a time of 15:41, and I couldn't be more proud.

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The applications for you in business are obvious, go find your spot and be the best you can be at it! Don’t pursue random objectives outside your wheelhouse, no matter how “cool” it is to other people.

Happy Monday! Let’s get it!

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Oh yes. Remove ILR status and send back the legal migrants who actually work and contribute to the economy. You don't have any plan either.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

The Chancellor says that we all 'have to do our bit' - but what are we 'doing our bit' for?

A ballooning welfare bill. Billions on asylum seekers. Public services which seem to get worse every year. No hope of growth. And yet taxes go up.

The British people deserve better.

[CorpusGAL"awe"sum @med_meth]

Congratulations 🎉🎉 So well deserved.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Tu Youyou became the first mainland Chinese scientist to be awarded a #NobelPrize in a scientific field - for discovering artemisinin, a malaria cure that’s saved millions. Today we reveal the 2025 medicine laureate. Stay tuned.