Donna

Nutrition & dietetics student, La Trobe, OUA. Science, weightlifting & family. Anti-diet culture, pro-vegetables, mindfulness & food. Mother of teenagers 😭

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Trauma Surgeon: What was the indication for an automatic trauma activation on this patient?

Me: He’s a farmer.

[Health Nerd @GidMK]

Things that count as "doing your research":

- advanced degrees
- expert specialisation
- years of running (or at least reading) original scientific studies

Things that don't:

- watching YouTube
- anonymous blogs
- following random shouty men online

[Louise stone @GPswampwarrior]

My thoughts on bulk billing & greedy doctors. When Medicare started, we did 6 years of medical school, hung up our shingle & became GPs. Medicare subsidised most of the cost of care so we could privately bill those who could afford it to subsidise the gap for those who couldn’t.

[Kali49 @kaveri59872487]

I have been asked for some basic material on Covid. I made a quick YouTube video. Please forgive all the “umms” in it. This is just meant to be basic knowledge for people. If you find it helpful please share. https://t.co/7ms2MBzuEZ

[Health Nerd @GidMK]

An important point in the whole "death of expertise" discussion is that experts tend to be cautious in their statements because they understand complexity, but arrogant fools are often extremely confident even when wrong

[s’OK @Jalopyfilms]

@KatieDeal99 Age 7-11 is the sweet spot. Then it gets a little harder each year until age 14-15. After that it’s so terrifying that you start looking for ways to keep calm enough to minimally function and help you sleep at night.

[Dr Neela Janakiramanan @NeelaJan]

I’ve been thinking about the ‘doctors defraud Medicare’ piece for hours.

It’s my considered view that it’s a shitty piece of investigation.

Not because doctors don’t defraud Medicare - a minority do; this is abhorrent.

But because most of what’s in the piece isn’t fraud.👇🏽

[Health Nerd @GidMK]

The most worrying thing about scientific fraud is that most of the people we catch tend to make stupid, basic mistakes

What about the people who put a bit more effort in?

[Donna @the_mini_mum]

I handed in my final uni assignment last Friday. Which is why I'm now sipping coffee and browsing twitter at 10am on a Wednesday. And I no longer have a mountain of clothes to fold...

[Dr Emma Beckett @DrEmmaBeckett]

If the question is “is it ok for me to have X food for dinner?” The answer is almost always* yes. Because if you’re asking that question, you probably just need to eat something. Not every meal needs to be perfect, the human body is complicated & so are lives.

[Donna @the_mini_mum]

@3catlady My kid's Grade 11 Chem teacher kept a kettle & coffee sachets in the classroom (for the kids - almost 18yo) & allowed them to eat. Actually, a lot of the teachers allow snacks from Grade 9. If they're working, there's no issue. Not unprofessional to me.

[Tomás Gomes (@tomsgoms.bsky.social) @tomsgoms]

Research can be hard, but there are ways to make it simpler.

Here are some tips for working in the lab

🧵⬇️

[Dr Emma Beckett @DrEmmaBeckett]

Instead of “don’t trust nutritionists, it’s not a protected term so they might have no education & be a quack” try “before you trust a nutritionist with nutrition information check that they have university level qualifications & participate in continued professional development”

[Donna @the_mini_mum]

@synapse101 Agreed. I don’t want to be a dietitian, I want to help communities and groups and do public health initiatives. My undergrad does that. And my previous degree also helps because surprisingly there’s a lot of overlap with nutrition and criminology re SDH etc

[Donna @the_mini_mum]

This is so funny.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people

[Mark Humphries @markhumphries]

That feeling you get when watching the news these days

[Donna @the_mini_mum]

@GoldCell2007 @aubreyhirsch The monkey backpack worked well for my eldest. I thought it’s be fine for my youngest… nope… he figured out how to undo the clasps within a week. At 1.5yo…