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Dr Gordon Caldwell FRCP Edinburgh

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Retired Consultant Physician living in Ballachulish

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Have you eaten at Home Noodles in Nicholson Street? Best noodles outside China.

11.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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The need for Thinking Doctors.

So much truth in such a beautifully written short article.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

07.03.2026 08:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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We live here! @carolynfahm.bsky.social

27.02.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cycle ride up to the Clachaig Inn

27.02.2026 11:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trust makes the world work.

26.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bidean today @janerushtonart.bsky.social @carolynfahm.bsky.social

21.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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There’s a little bit of cloud magic this morning

19.02.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stunning views at Ballachulish desecrated by rubbish left by passers-by. These bags from 800m of verges today. What psychology is at work that people pay to visit, stop to take photos and leave toilet paper, tampons, bottles, cans, crisp wrappers behind?

17.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cycling to Kentallen

17.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Winter sun

17.02.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking over Loch Leven towards Glencoe @janerushtonart.bsky.social @carolynfahm.bsky.social

16.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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@janerushtonart.bsky.social @carolynfahm.bsky.social unusual clouds today - are there usual cloud days?

15.02.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ballachulish and the Burial Islands

14.02.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same scriptwriter as the original Italian Job

03.02.2026 11:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2 chapters make me appear quite learned about Medical Education in the Workplace link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

02.02.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Contradictions of Medical Education This book is political analysis developed specifically for medical education and based on the practice of that discipline in a variety of contexts.

Grant, J. and Grant, L. (Eds) (2025) The Contradictions of Medical Education: A Political View from Practice. Springer Nature

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@carolynfahm.bsky.social

30.01.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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interesting post from @andrewlearmonth

So why not a different approach that's silo agnostic & vendor neutral? An approach that's more, flexible & intelligent? One where primary & secondary care share the same data repositories but in different ways, with real access control across all geographies

29.01.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Agree, provided that it is the clinical record - interventions, obs, diagnosis, plans, examinations but needs to be vendor neutral, perhaps curated by clinicians, and reach across all boundaries where the above occurs. Access to such records could be managed in a far more intelligent way too.

29.01.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The NHS electronic prescribing systems I saw or used were riddled with easy to achieve errors.

Very unusual Meds should blocked from prescription by Doctors below Consultant. Doses above ordinary Maximum again should require Consultant ID and password.

28.01.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sidra Aliabase: Prevention of future deaths report - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary Date of report: 21/01/2026 Ref: 2026-0031 Deceased name: Sidra Aliabase Coroner name: Fiona Wilcox Coroner Area: Inner West London Category: Child Death (from 2015) This report is being sent to: Chels...

A three-week-old baby died after a doctor selected the wrong medication from a drop-down menu
www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...

27.01.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Strong argument for a single NHS Hospital Clinical 'Record' - and one that is accessible in England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.

28.01.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What a catalogue of missed interpretation of blood tests results, contacting the wrong teams in the wrong hospitals, failure to send comprehensible messages, Ward Rounds without Checklists etc. A typical NHS hotchpotch which happens daily and sometimes are fatal. @ShaunLintern @@JKMVidimo

28.01.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Any progress in the last 3 years in reducing poorly designed and poorly integrated NHS Hospitals' Clinical IT systems?

I still get shivery thinking about the wasteful use of so much Clinicians' time, time when they should be diagnosing & treating patients @vidimo.bsky.social @ihieurope.bsky.social

27.01.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDanish citizens are organising a huge boycott that includes cancelling planned holidays in the US, cancelling subscriptions to on-demand services based in the US & more generally, recommending the use of EU services instead of those provided by American platforms.”

So, same as Canadians.

23.01.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 9764 πŸ” 2606 πŸ’¬ 543 πŸ“Œ 267

@microlabdoc.bsky.social I wonder if infection control, handwashing and use of alcohol gel are any better 6 years after my audits?

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g6z74...

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1ifip...

23.01.2026 07:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nurse in pronoun row reinstated in job after disciplinary hearing A nurse was reinstated after a probe found no evidence she had identified a transgender patient.

www.bbc.com/news/article... I'm appalled at the treatment of this nurse by the NHS and lack of support from NMC and RCN. I'm amazed she is willing to return to work after such abuse by a patient, her employer and professional bodies.

20.01.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brilliant

20.01.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nurses in transgender row suffered harassment from NHS trust, tribunal rules The Darlington nurses went to a tribunal over a policy that allowed their transgender colleague, Rose Henderson, to use a female changing room.

news.sky.com/story/nurses... Good news for truth.

16.01.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Winter light in #Ballachulish @janerushtonart.bsky.social @carolynfahm.bsky.social

09.01.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Winter hydrangea

04.01.2026 09:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0