Norman Briffa MD 📣 🇲🇹🇬🇧🇺🇦
@Chestcracker
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Heart Surgeon, Reader, exAssociate Editor @Heart_BMJ Opinions my own, retweets not endorsements. Citizen of the Mediterranean, @Sheffielduni & @Stanford Alumnus
Sheffield Yorkshire, UK.
Joined August 2010
Clearing my office & came across this cracking little book. Can’t remember receiving or maybe nicking it! Seems an ideal question for the social media age. if you’re a medic please answer & RT. I’ll tweet a page a day #whyamiadoctor
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May the sensible Lords prevail & kill this truly horrible #assistedsuicide #assisteddying bill. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 This peer’s Assisted Suicide speech was truly bonkers
spectator.co.uk
We’re back again in the House of Peers this week as they once again give a leaden beating to Leadbeater’s suicide bill
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“it’s totally unrealistic. It’ll cost billions. Is Labour or Conservative going to say in their next manifesto, we will spend billions on palliative care? It just won’t happen. We now know the real reason for this 😳😳😳😳😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
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Kenneth Baker Tory in the Lords who is supporting #AssistedDying says - It would be “wonderful” if dying people could rely on a choice of palliative care,
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An aircraft flyby in Romania, a giant dust storm in Arizona, a grape harvest in France, a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park, an apple spill in Germany, and much more—via @TheAtlPhoto:
theatlantic.com
A collection of images from around the world over the past week, including the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania, a giant dust storm in Phoenix, a grape harvest in France, a grizzly bear in...
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would this apply to patients with #atrialfibrillation undergoing cardiac surgery & concomitant #atrialablation Nonmodifiable Recurrence Risk Factors and Catheter Ablation vs Medication for AF
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This secondary analysis of the Catheter Ablation vs Anti-Arrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation (CABANA) randomized clinical trial examines the impact of catheter ablation compared with drug...
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Even if AI cannot replace doctors (yet), it may still replace medical school, particularly for autodidacts. It remains more educational than operational.
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🚨Not all RCTs are created equal. 🚨Quality RCTs generate quality evidence. Questionable RCTs generate bad evidence. 🚨 Surgeons command the leverage to promote robust RCTs and enhance the quality of evidence that guide patient care. @AATSHQ
https://t.co/rJPA4ofdrM
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ABOUT B****Y TIME Mechanical Valves vs Bioprostheses: A Call to Reevaluate Our Biases and Commit to Data-Driven Valve Strategies - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Mitral annular disjunction and mitral valve prolapse: long-term risk of ventricular arrhythmias after surgery
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AbstractBackground and Aims. Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is associated with progressive mitral regurgitation (MR) requiring surgical correction. A subset o
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It’s not just about pay! @wesstreeting please read this to understand medical & nursing staff’s unhappiness- sacrificing professionalism to capture by an overpowerful & over bearing NHS England. @TheBMA @theRCN @ShaunLintern
To my surprise, this piece—“The ‘Impossibility’ of working in the current NHS: sacrifice to a primitive god”—has become the most read article ever published in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. I was trying to articulate something I had felt for a long time: that the NHS is now
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A lot of recent legislation has been passed due to vibes and optics, instead of genuine progression and improvement of law. Creating good quality legislation is very hard. I've just accepted that enough of the current calibre just aren't up to it.
To support a law when so many professional organisations say is deeply flawed - and then expect those professional organisations to enact it- is reckless beyond belief.
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Full term babies & elderly & physically disabled in the same week - this Labour dominated parliament will go down in history for all the wrong reasons - sickening
bbc.co.uk
After several hours of emotional debate, MPs voted in favour of the bill, which will now be scrutinised by the House of Lords.
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I predict within 18 months of this cruel ill-thought out law coming into being, patients who are truly terminally ill will form a minority of those who will kill themselves at the state’s behest causing further NHS chaos. I am currently feeling sick.
bbc.co.uk
After several hours of emotional debate, MPs voted in favour of the bill, which will now be scrutinised by the House of Lords.
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My statement on the decriminalising of self-induced abortion up to full term in the Crime and Policing Bill.
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Management of the dissected aortic root in young patients – a propensity-matched analysis of mechanical versus bioprosthetic aortic root replacement - JTCVS Open
jtcvsopen.org
Valve selection in acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) requiring aortic root replacement is challenging given the clinical acuity, unknown patient preferences, risk of surgical bleeding, and...
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