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A sensible question with surprisingly few sensible responses thus far…
What are people using for light touch?
#ObAnes
In some of these sports they only get marks when they’re in the air…
Yup! We have about 7.5 hours daylight up here this week and the weather they’ve all been out in…! 😱
I think so too. Gutted for her that she couldn’t run - but it’s not as if the Spine team scare easily.
Thanks for flagging this yesterday. The response has been amazing - really hope we can smash the target!
She was running the #spinerace for Afghan women and girls. She was pulled out because of death threats. I’ll put her fundraiser page in the next post. Let’s support if we can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Same here, stopped using it in 2024, now deactivated.
Thank you. I’d held off for a project to go live last year but now… Staying felt like being complicit…
Good to see you too! Hope you’re keeping well
For years Twitter was so helpful, putting me in contact with anaesthetists around the world, many of whom became wonderful allies.
But leaving X suddenly became incredibly easy to do.
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
What a beautiful letter…
All those involved in #patientsafety please fill in this survey re patient safety education by HSSIB.
Not my usual sort of post but it’s not everyday I get compared to Erin Brockovich…
Astute review of Susan Burton’s work in The Retrievals: open.substack.com/pub/bingewor...
Writing like it's a television drama complete with instructions for a camera operator. That's an unusual maneuver for a podcast. One I'd never heard before. Neither had Susan Burton until she wrote that way herself for #TheRetrievals from Serial and @nytimes.com. @prx.org. @transom.bsky.social.
I think, perhaps, uncertainty should be seen a warning sign of a suboptimal block. I have spoken to women who have had good blocks after previously experiencing poor ones - they all describe testing as being easy when it is a good block.
So sorry, Rob. Wonderful photo as is his picture of you.
The Retrievals is available wherever you usually listen eg
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#TheRetrievals #TheRetrievalsPodcast
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Women find themselves shamed and silenced with the trite phrase, 'The baby's alright, that's all that matters.' Of course, healthy babies matter - but mothers matter too.
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To everyone else, it is likely you know someone who has experienced pain during a caesarean and felt nobody believed them. Maybe it is easier for people to think, 'There's no way anyone would allow that to happen' than to imagine what someone's experience might have been.
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Trust, once taken for granted, needs to be re-earned.
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Every healthcare professional needs to understand women may carry the burden of experiences of maternity care. The trauma response may be apparent years later: patients who have experienced harm in healthcare can find it incredibly difficult to access care.
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I, too, have had the privilege of contributing to the series, sharing what has been almost 15 years work to improve care and outcomes.
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Including Dr Heather Nixon's excellent work at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Hospital building pain scores into the documentation and system, creating a culture where a patient’s pain matters.
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Failure to include patient reported outcomes in research doubtless contributed. Importantly, the series explores these failures and also details solutions...
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For healthcare professionals, in the US, UK and beyond, the series may be confronting. Please listen to understand what can happen when there is normalisation of deviance. There is no other major surgery where pain has been accepted. How could that happen?
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These women describe the new series as ‘healing’ for the validation it gives them and the hope that people are working to improve care for mothers in the future.
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A review in The Independent describes the series as a ‘harrowing and urgent listen’ and the responses coming in are overwhelming. Women are sharing their own experiences from last year to 38 years ago.
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