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Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Any other Brits initially scratching their heads wondering why wait until May… oh.
Vaccines do not cause autism.
Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash.
#academicsky
DEI in the federal government. At DOJ, I worked on "DEI" because I did a lot of recruiting and hiring. What that *actually* meant was finding ways to speak with diverse POTENTIAL applicants about the work of DOJ to encourage them to APPLY and to have our job openings reach broader communities. /1
Absolute this!
I dread to think what the outcome would have been if this was posted on the other place.
This is what I’m here for.
The sooner these two consume each other the better.
Private vascular surgery is an interesting one isn’t it. Considering that the gnarly stuff is related to deprivation.
The door to the shed with the bike in is frozen shut. OH WELL
Interesting. We’re on the cusp of seeing the true impact of direct to clinician messaging in the UK on productivity and reimbursement
Dominic Grieve, ex Conservative Attorney General, excoriates Elon Musk for his baseless accusations against Keir Starmer.
If true this is good. Operational dysfunction easier to tackle than demand
Lots of posts this morning re social care. My mother is in care, despite it being eye-wateringly expensive am I controversial in thinking that individuals *should* pay for their social care.. aging is a privilege?
The first green shoots of the bulbs I put in at the end of summer. Snowdrops but also confused tulips (go back to sleep!)
Will radioactive bots slowly take over the landscape?
This is amazing: it’s incredibly windy in the UK right now, so only about 10% of the National Grid is currently being powered by fossil fuels.
Open fire in an inglenook
Slippers on, fire crackling, champagne poured. We will not see midnight hopefully! Happy New Year 🥳
My fav beach!
I think we don’t think about ovarian torsion as much (ex-surgical SpR here). I wonder how many missed ones gynae see? Do they self revert and if so can it be retrospectively diagnosed on scan?
Surgeons showed significantly greater manual dexterity compared with physicians, nurses, and non-clinical staff when assessed using a buzz wire game.
But had the highest rates of swearing
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Greetings! I’m getting hammered by predatory journals - what can I do?
One for @infinitescream.bsky.social
“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold.”
12 Days of Xmas/King Tut mashup is the gift I didn’t know I needed!!
Sherlock! Not from this year.. but still brilliant!
Clerking is a good example, first the F1, often then the SHO, then the Reg (by which time patient is irritated at the repeated questions).. then the Cons..
