Jake Matthews

Jake Matthews

@jakemat91.bsky.social

FY10 (GPST4 ACF) Birmingham UK. Academia, Athletics and #MediCurious #MedSky #GPSky

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Emma Bower
@emmabower.bsky.social

Bit late to post this, but this story from last week based on our annual survey of locum GPs shows how the current jobs crisis is affecting locums. In England most are struggling to find work, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income www.gponline.com/locum-gps-st... #GPnews

gponline.comMost locum GPs struggling to find work as jobs crisis devastates incomeMost locum GPs in England are struggling to find work amid huge competition for jobs, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income, a survey has found.

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Sara Rouhi
@rouhiroo.bsky.social

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Jake - New NIH is tip of ⛰️for what's coming. Consider SIGNING and amplifying this open declaration against exactly this kind of thing to #defendresearch? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.comDeclaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government CensorshipThis Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

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BJGP
@bjgp.org

“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.”  Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare

doi.orgTechnostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice | British Journal of General Practice

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Anish K Patel
@anishkpatel.bsky.social

Is this the modern-day NHS postcode lottery? Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access. Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.

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Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

Cardiovascular disease mortality has declined in many countries over the past decades. For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.

Jake Matthews
@jakemat91.bsky.social

#MedTech #AI question for #MedSky ... Why hasn't #PUBMed or the journal publishers produced closed system AI LLM based on their journals and papers yet? Like #Google #Notebook but with all the articles full loaded.

Jake Matthews
@jakemat91.bsky.social

bjgp.org/content/75/7... @bjgp.bsky.social Great article by Dr Evans. I'd never heard of the book Medical Nemesis but he explains it well and certainly provokes some thoughts about the limits of modern medicine

bjgp.orgIvan Illich’s Medical Nemesis at 50This year sees the 50th anniversary of the publication of Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich,1 a book that has had the same impact on the language of health care as George Orw...
Jake Matthews
@jakemat91.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/jake... Huge thread, listing summary of major papers, trials and reviews of #statins and #primaryprevention Tried something new. Using BlueSky as a notepad. Is this useful for #MedEd and #EBM ?

Jake Matthews@jakemat91.bsky.social

The JUPITER trial. Published in 2008. One of the few studies that shows a significant mortality benefit (CVD and all cause) with a statin. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

nejm.orgRosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women with Elevated C-Reactive Protein | NEJMIncreased levels of the inflammatory biomarker high-sensitivity C-reactive protein predict cardiovascular events. Since statins lower levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein as well as choles...