Phil Pascoe

Jamais cruel, ni lâche. Conseils et assistance disponibles immédiatement. Restez forts, les gens vous attendent.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals.

This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Positive self-affirmations I used outside each of the rooms during my specialist fellowship clinical exam:

Door 1: Fantastic!
Door 2: Allons-y!
Door 3: Geronimo!
Door 4: Laugh hard, run fast, be kind.
Door 5: Stay strong — people waiting for you.
Door 6: Honey, I’m here for fun.

[Big Finish Insider @bigfinish]

22 years ago today, ...Ish was first released! https://t.co/7WXiZlFBfc

Peri should help out, but there's a guy. Someone who loves language even more than the Doctor. Maybe, she realises, enough to kill for. Or perhaps just enough to ask her out to dinner...

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Taking a short break from studying for the @acemonline Objective Structured Clinical Examination, the last exam in the specialist training program to become a Fellow of the Aotearoa-Australia College for Emergency Medicine.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

15. Gaza (2023 - 2024) 🇵🇸

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Many kind, compassionate doctors, some of whom I know, will sign this letter. I have too. On a scale of genocide-opposing actions from wearing a ribbon to the Red Army rolling into Berlin, it seems a small act. But if you're a member of @acemonline it's the very least you can do.

[Natalie Thurtle @Turtle1doc]

Silence does not meet our ethical obligations as medical orgs. It long has not. Orgs need to embody their core values. These are first, other responsibilities and complexities are second. Please sign and share. Courage.

https://t.co/tsVi6732E4

[MSF International @MSF]

MSF staff in Nasser hospital report they can feel the ground shaking and that there is a sense of panic among staff, patients and displaced people sheltering inside the building.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Am I taking a side by posting this?

Yes. I'm on the side of the nurses and doctors who provide emergency care in besieged hospitals as resources dwindle. Of men searching rubble for survivors. Of people dying of preventable diseases. Of the wounded children, no surviving family.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

An army (you know which one) is killing people by sniper, drone, bomb, bulldozer, displacement, deprivation, starvation. Yet if an Australian doctor criticises this slaughter, their Medical Board registration can be suspended due to weaponised complaints.

https://t.co/1rlhk0GqVL

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

In nomine Ketaminae,
qui misericors est.
Graciat ad Deam.

Decades. Decade after decade ahead.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

I first read Frank Huyler's stories from emergency medicine in my final year of medical school and it inspired a career path that tomorrow may take a different turn.

But maybe, like the girl in 'Sugar', I'll be "alive in the world, going out into it… decade after decade ahead."

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Fire will kill us all, in the end.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Two, AI can now generate endless photorealistic images of Nessie, the Yeti, alive thylacines, or any other inhabitants of the edge of the unreal.

The past decade, defined by narcissistic and other cluster B anxieties, may soon make way for a mid-2020s of hallucinatory psychosis.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

There’s a fairly solid argument against UFOs and cryptids: widespread use of camera phones should have produced by now convincing photographic evidence… so where is it?

Two thoughts. One, smartphone users tend to focus their lenses on themselves. A selfie is a closed imaginary.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

To make it crystal clear:

- I don't have the script for the @bigfinish audio I wrote in 2001 in any accessible format.

- I don't believe I would have anything interesting to say about something I wrote decades ago.

- Perhaps the attached quotes from @BriggsNicholas might help?

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Apologising to my employer who has been emailed by an overzealous Doctor Who fan wasn't how I planned to spend this morning.

Kenny Smith @FinishedZine : you've been messaging since 2018 about this, the fact that I haven't replied ought to have been a bit of a clue. Please stop.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

It’s called the “novel” coronavirus because you get interested and get it when everyone else is talking about it, but years later you’re still only halfway through.

[Gary Shteyngart @Shteyngart]

Epidemiologists friends warn me that the novel coronavirus may soon be overtaken by the short story coronavirus, which will entail a briefer period of sickness but somehow be more devastating.

[Phil Pascoe @thisphilpascoe]

Speaking of podcasts, it was nice to get a brief mention in a recent episode of The Bunker @BunkerCutaway which interviewed Joe Lidster.

Joe became a writer around the same time and in the same way as I did, though has of course gone on to a much more successful writing career…