Rossa Brugha
@_rossa_
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Paediatric Respiratory Consultant at Great Ormond Street. My views representative of the last thing I read.
London
Joined September 2010
No more @TPpodcast_ and no more @brianmoore666 co-commentaries? Come on Twitter this is a bad start to the day.
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I set this journal club up 2 years ago, and this has gone from strength to strength with speakers from all over the world! 🌎 We are now partners with the #ecfs exercise working group and will put on more amazing talks about #cysticfibrosis this year! 🫁🏃 Sign up here ⬇️
Looking to setup an online journal club in #cysticfibrosis and #exercise for Jan 2020. We'll discuss ongoing research, new findings, success/challenges and clinical practice🏃♂️🏥⚽️ Interested? Sign up here✏️➡️ https://t.co/SvWNaxLkLM
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@TPC2S @theJeremyVine A wise person (who works as a psychotherapist) once told me, "Once you realise that people relate to other people in the same way they relate to themselves, you stop worrying too much about what other people think about you".
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#SueGrayReport being released on a Friday evening just before night handover. What is this, an Empyema referral?
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This is the most convincing explanation I’ve seen yet for why the Met want “minimal reference” to the parties they’re investigating in Sue Gray’s report.
thesecretbarrister.com
This has been the question reverberating around Twitter all day. It’s the first question I asked myself when I saw the story, and was a question that appeared several hundred times in my mentions f…
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What do you do when you’re chilling at home with tonsillitis? You create a beat and freestyle sing the verbatim words of the latest #MedTwitter bin fire! @TurtonsOther @dremmayoung @medbinfire
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"This is my body, I have to defend it!" 🏠 Reminder: Being vaccinated and boosted is your best line of defense against severe illness from COVID-19. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest info: https://t.co/3vRukdJJEk
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Our paper published today in @NatureMedicine describes risk factors for serious illness due to COVID-19 and PIMS-TS amongst children and young people in England during the first pandemic year (Feb 2020 - Jan 2021) https://t.co/fM3rZXm9PW
@UCLchildhealth @ich_ppp
nature.com
Nature Medicine - The risk of intensive care unit admission among children with COVID-19 or its sequelae is affected by age, ethnicity and comorbidities. Understanding these modifiers might help...
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I am going to clap for this tweet at 7pm on a Thursday for 8 weeks
Today I was planning on admitting all my patients on the PTWR for 7 days of observation and monitoring However, I got informed by a manger that our hospital and the NHS was extremely pressured so I totally changed my plans and discharged everyone who could be safely discharged 🤷🏼♀️
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Not many interventions in medicine that reduce mortality by 90%.
Just published @NEJM A striking 90% reduction in death for booster shots (vs not receiving the 3rd shot) among over 840,000 people, age 50 or older https://t.co/W22vriA1Se
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The message is getting through. Even the drunk guy passed out on the floor in Sainsbury’s was wearing a mask.
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Can’t believe I’d missed this episode of Brasseye
More people than ever realise that people like Daniel Hannan sold them a complete lie, as illustrated here in this 2016 Newsnight piece in which he describes our totally false future under Brexit. They took back control. He ended up in the Lords, it should have been prison.
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The fabulous Mollie Riley from the GOSH Lung Function Lab is presenting at #BTSWinter2021 tomorrow - look out for her spoken presentation S72 in the session "Gazing through the crystal ball: predicting outcomes from COVID-19"🔮 👏👏👏 #BTSWinter #RespIsBest cc @_rossa_
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Cool video Makes your brain hurt a bit when you think about the complexity of the all the stuff that happens in your body without you even realising it HT @DrNeilStone
https://t.co/gvJsrg2gYi
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This weekend’s #MedTwitter spat will be arguments following comedy reductionist descriptions of specialties. (I’m an antibiotic dispensing babysitter)
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some inconvenient facts from @GeorgeMonbiot in his blistering Guardian column today https://t.co/jzFSMkvSnX
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