Dr Neela Janakiramanan
@NeelaJan
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đ Surgery, words, health equity, refugee health đ Reconstructive & hand surgeon â€ïž Columns + novels đ Bestselling author of âThe Registrarâ (Rep @mjostell)
Naarm (Melbourne), Australia
Joined February 2018
Happy publication day to my book baby đ„ł. I hope youâll enjoy this deliberately realistic and fast-paced glimpse into modern Australian hospitals and medical training, and how patients, and healthcare workers might live, love and survive. Available at all bookstores, today!
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I think itâs worth remembering that bears are still really dangerous.
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Some of my favourite photos are of the aurora taken by astronauts on the ISS. I think of them often as a reminder that everything has a different perspective.
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RT @reallykazcooke: Iâd love a story about who sewed and embroidered one of these dresses, and what they were paid.
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TL; DR - patients despise travelling to Parkville and many of my patients have avoided necessary medical appointments and care because they hate travelling into that hell hole of narrow roads, too much traffic and no parking. (And no they donât want to or canât take a train).
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Instead of governments building hospitals in inner city areas where no one lives and no staff can afford to live - what if they invested in suburban health services where patients and staff actually live?.
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Do any other novelists idly wonder what ended up happening to characters in their own book?.
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Justice Lee makes âdonât go back for your hatâ a new Australian saying.
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We must invest in mental health because people living with schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions, deserve to live with love, respect and dignity.
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In case itâs not clear, all my hot takes, but particularly points 2 and 3, are separate. Schizophrenia doesnât make people behave in misogynistic ways, or make people kill. Misogyny is all around us, every day, and provokes men and women to behave in ways that harm women. đđœ.
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My hot takes. Thank goodness for Australian gun control laws - Americans (whose homeland has seen 125 mass shootings already this year), shush. Statistically speaking, women were targeted, and we need to address societal misogyny. We must invest in mental health care.
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Every photo of video of âkids being kidsâ has, invisible behind it, broader socioeconomic privilege, and a whole lot of (usually female) adult labour. Behind this photo are many carers (to change kids out of wet clothes) and parent(a) with time to run the washing machine daily.
A Danish kindergarten. Playing outdoors, even in mud, is part of each day. It's essential for children's sensory development. It's essential for children to be children. For the rest, grown-ups invented the washing machine. #GoodMorning, everyone
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Why, in Melbourne, is petrol (U91) $1.79 at some petrol stations tonight, and $2.31 at others?. Thatâs a huge differenceâŠ.
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If any Australian government believes they were elected with a mandate to âprotect our bordersâ then they will do exactly that. Letâs be clear: this is not just them, this is all of us.
Women and children were issued Australian visas, underwent security checks, somehow got out of Gaza through Rafah into Egypt, boarded flights to Australia. Only to be told their visas were then cancelled. @annajhenderson @rayane_tamer.
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This is the âreal stuffâ. No one - not one patient - is âanatomyâ or âphysiologyâ. All patients are people, and all diagnostics and care must be contextualised and individualised. This is why subjects that teach this re the most important.
@davidevelasqu @fuzzymittens These are terrible events in human history, and medical history, but they should be taught as a cautionary tale long before med school, thereâs no need to self flagellate and navel gaze into these episodes when the students time is limited and should be spent learning real stuff.
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That day on the holidays when I declare âI am on strikeâ has arrived.
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RT @Turtle1doc: A representative quote from Chris, who is very understated and not at all prone to hyperbole. This is the reality.
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And I think itâs important to acknowledge that this small act is wholly representative of how inclusive (and therefore representative) the program has been. Getting names right shouldnât be a notable act, but it is. That genuine care towards diverse panellists permeated the team.
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