Lesley Barron MD, MPhil, FRACS
@drlesleybarron
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general surgeon, Medical Director of Surgical Services John Hunter Hospital. Mom, she/her, health policy & gender equity expert, greyhound lover, #genderpaygap
Awabakal/Worimi/Newcastle
Joined August 2012
https://t.co/IWht5X5bhJ. For when we inevitably return to a discussion of increased surgical wait times post Covid. Gender bias against female surgeons harms patients. #centralizereferrals
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Think I’m going to head to where the skies are blue….
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When I teach this I now bring up gendered / intersectional aspects such as role incredulity and status levelling. learners appreciate it being named, even if no solutions yet. #SurgicalEducation @drlesleybarron @arghavan_salles
Fellow friends/trauma surgeons, I need your help for a talk I am preparing: 1. What does "Leadership in the Trauma Bay" mean to you? Please Comment. 2. Please retweet, so I get diverse answers. Much appreciated (& yes, I am ignoring #electionday2024 discussion on purpose)
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It’s absolutely that.
I know this isn't like, a popular leftist analysis, but at what point do we acknowledge that her simply being a woman might be the reason she loses
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OHIP is demanding that Kingston doctor @DrElaineMa pay back $600,000 for taking operating #COVID19 #vaccination clinics at the height of the pandemic -- because shots were not administered in her office, by @DoreyForestell
https://t.co/jkUplM16N6 via @kingstonist @DocMCohen
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(Kingston, Ontario) Not only is OHIP demanding a local doctor pay back what she was reimbursed for running numerous vaccination clinics at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the provincial...
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If they build it, I will use it. Courtesy of the current 3 +hours each way by train we usually drive to Sydney. Because as a time pressured working parent I can’t make the economics/scheduling work esp once there’s more than 2 of us travelling.
It's big, it's bold and it's expensive, but plans to build a high speed train line between Sydney and Newcastle are steaming ahead.
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Close passing a cyclist is both obnoxious and illegal, doing so when you gain no extra time is worse, doing both with your kid in the front seat (who you should be setting a good example for) should be grounds to lose your driving license.
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We need to have a serious talk about the reality of being a young MD. What we need to understand is the #healthcare #workforce crisis is linked to decades of preventable & compounded professional pain. The young MDs see it, and are done w/ it. 1/11 🧵
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Abortion not “settled law” in 🇨🇦 (right now it’s simply an absence of laws criminalising it)& is constantly at risk from the next conscience vote in Parliament. Thinking it settled is dangerous. It’s also mostly inaccessible in many parts ie Catholic hospitals, rural areas.
Abortion is settled law in Canada. As is Gay Marriage. The extreme portion of the left and right will use the trauma from both of these communities, to win elections instead of focusing on making the lives of Canadians better. These are human rights in Canada. Not election
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LOL- I’ve had these conversations. Drivers have made the roads so unsafe that anyone who dares to cycle anywhere is “hardcore”.
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A child was killed and multiple others injured by school pickup parent driver doing a u turn in Australia this week. School pickup lines are policy failures.
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Hemorrhoids, hernias, urinary/fecal incontinence, varicose veins are a small sample of issues that can follow pregnancy. As someone who had 3 uncomplicated deliveries & has still needed multiple surgical interventions as a result-pregnancy is NOT a benign process.
Women have been collectively convinced that pregnancy is a health-neutral event and I am here to tell you that this is a tactic used to suppress freedom of informed choice.
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My dogs have always been fine with loud noises (thunder etc) but the trembling distressed dogs cowering in shower stalls in my social media feeds around Guy Fawkes in the UK make me hate fireworks so much. Why does it go on for days before and after Nov 5?
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I’m not gonna amplify the silly clip of a woman who wants to be a trad wife and feed chickens. Just to point out (again) that feminism isn’t about a binary of women being at home or working. It’s about EVERYONE having the CHOICE to do EITHER.
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"When it comes to climate, the government seems to want praise for doing some right things while doing more wrong things." @pollyjhemming hit the nail on the head at #climateintegrity Summit 2024. The climate crisis is an integrity crisis #auspol
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Wondering if my French is good enough to move to Paris……
THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.
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🚨🆕 Job posting : looking for HPB surgeon to join @PaulKaranicolas @DrNCoburn & I @Sunnybrook @UofTSurgery ✅Supportive & dynamic group ✅High volume 100% HPB oncology ✅Active in research Looking for🤖 skills, interest in NETs & academia https://t.co/tLlJRSmun3
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Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor- General Surgeon -Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgical Oncology
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Of course, it's not even about the bike lanes. Depressing that @fordnation, @PrabSarkaria & PCs will play politics with our safety. I hope the approval ratings are worth the carnage that will ensue. 📷 @tomflood1
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If you want to support literature in Australia but can’t buy books during this economic crisis, don’t forget libraries. Buying is always better for author and industry, but we also get paid when books are borrowed. (Last year I got enough library royalties for 4 mths rent 😮😭👏🏾)
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Australians do not understand the etiquette of wait until dusk/dark to trick or treat. I don’t mind, but it’s so early some ppl won’t be home from work. 👻🎃
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