Tessa Kennedy
@drtessak
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Paediatrician. Intensivist in Training. Immediate Past Chair, AMA Council of Doctors in Training. For health and humanity. Cheese addict.
Sydney
Joined May 2014
#pedsICU and #ED intubators- free link to 📖 of >1000 intubations of infants. Weight predicts ETT length for oral and nasal tubes. 🙏@STRS_Evelina & @KingsCollegeLon med students who looked at ALOT of X-rays! Retweet to share formula. https://t.co/pdWrgliOWk
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How to use technology to make prescribing infinitely more hazardous. “Just type the drug name” they said. “It will make it so easy…” #digitalhealth #MedTwitter #prescribing #medicalerror #paracetawtf
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Today was a tough one. Little baby girl comes in for “recurrent UTIs”. Parent is frustrated because she’s been to ER multiple times this year when these symptoms started where she’s given antibiotics & sent home. But symptoms always come back - belly pain, pain in urination,…
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We thank the reviewers for their suggestions and believe they have substantially improved the paper
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First job outside the NHS and this cutlery drawer at work made me scream, if you know you know
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So excited to finally see the @healthgovau National Medical Workforce Strategy (NMWS) released today. Agree with @ama_media that the devil may be in implementation detail, but 🤞 good news for rural health and unaccredited training. https://t.co/VQ3FhbGcM9 Go team! @amacdt
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Why we mustn’t forget the need for #health reform after acute stress of #omicron wave passes - “Remember how it feels now… the fault lines have been exposed but it’s been building for years.” Thanks @claski
"Emergency departments are under extraordinary levels of pressure across the entire system. We've got a perfect storm of people presenting with COVID-19, but also high levels of staff shortages." - Dr Clare Skinner, @ACEMPresident. #abc730
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“Living with COVID” should have meant greater investments in healthcare from government. Instead “living with COVID” seems to be nothing but a vague ideology with no plan for the consequences and in spite of the warnings from the health system
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Went to the beach today and this dickhead sitting nearby wasn’t wearing sunscreen and so everyone around him got burnt. So disrespectful. #personalresponsibility
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Fascinating. Working in operating theatres has been mind boggling in terms of the plastic waste. Glimmers of hope… but we HAVE to get real about #sustainability in #health!! @DocsEnvAus @ama_media
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👏 👏 trainee voices should not be tokenised. Some long overdue changes to come I hope. #medtwitter @RANZCP
Today I stand with my fellow @RANZCP trainees - as such, myself and other members of the trainee committee have officially resigned from our post so that we can finally have a voice without being silenced @skyekinder @DrKieranAllen @PatMcGorry @mbismark @venessb @bhatrey
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Exceptional work from the @AMA_NSW DiTC: 1800 junior docs surveyed. Important snapshot of working conditions in our public hospitals. #wellbeing #health #medtwitter
https://t.co/i8L59o5N3W Nice angles @DrSanjayHettige and @DrJackie0 🤩
smh.com.au
More than one-third of junior doctors working in some of Sydney’s biggest hospitals say they made a medical error due to the stress of working excessive hours this year.
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