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NC 500 ✔️ Castles, boat rides, hiking trails, waterfalls, ‘tropical’ beaches, distilleries, quaint B&Bs, glamping pods and breathtaking sceneries- Advice from the Highlanders ‘If you wait for good weather, you will never do it’ ‘Todays rain is tomorrow’s whisky’

I am a NHS consultant. I am financially comfortable, in a job I love, so why am I striking tomorrow? Answer: Because the next generation will not be able to live off what I do today. The juniors that will become these consultants know this and are leaving already. Why? 🧵 👇

A send off BBQ for Surgical Registrars completing their year @DGNHS (Magnus @MagnusJohnston and Peter @drpeteradel , Sp Doc Muneeb leaving for Vascular ST3 job ) with DGRI Consultant colleagues. Wishing them well in their career!

1/2 Let me show you the price, me, as a clinician who care for patients and our community at large have to pay for publishing medical science to progress our knowledge regarding healthcare information and fight misinformation/disinformation. Last year we published our brilliant report which detailed the painstaking clinical investigation that helped a young girl survive without a liver transplantation. "Ayurvedic treatment induced severe alcoholic hepatitis and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension in a 14-year-old girl." academic.oup.com/omcr/articl… The girl suffered liver injury due to the Ayurvedic treatment (which she was on for seizures) leading to arsenic and alcohol poisoning over many years, which we reversed. The Ayurvedic meds were also adulterated with anti-seizure drug. This was the viral tweet on it. twitter.com/theliverdr/statu… Now the Ayurvedic practitioner K.P. Manikandan (cnsayurveda.com/doctors.php) has threatened legal action against ALL authors of the study. His conditions are as follows: 1/ I have to delete the peer-reviewed scientific paper from all online sources. 2/ I have to tender an unconditional and written apology to the Ayurveda practitioner. 3/ I have to pay 1,00,00,000 INR (USD 1,21,562) as compensation... ...without which they will commence civil and criminal proceedings against me and my co-authors, for publishing a factual, well-designed, exhaustively researched scientific report on how a young girl nearly lost her life to pseudoscientific treatments and how medical science salvaged her. The use of legal threats and law machinery against well-meaning scientific discourses has been the most important reason why doctors in India, in general, do not speak up against Ayush pseudoscience mafia tactics. There may be many doctors in India who are seeing a lot of patients harmed by Ayurveda or Homeopathy but are keeping silent because they cannot fight the irrational and hostile tactics that the alternative medicine practitioners take them through. This has to stop. Arguments and debates on science and pseudoscience has to be on scientific platforms. Continued...

Maybe something to think about @DGNHS . What do you think @gasbagheera @dr_dyb

I made another video, currently watched 350k times on TikTok. Please watch, please RT and please sponsor if you have a spare £5. I lost my wife at 33yrs old to a brain tumour, leaving me a single dad to a 13 month old daughter. I'm running the London marathon for @BrainTumourOrg

Being a single, widowed dad, is tough, but nowhere near as tough as the final 5 months of Anneka's life. Please RT 🙏 and sponsor if you can. I'm running the London marathon 2023 for @BrainTumourOrg #londonmarathon #braintumourawareness #cancer #tiktok #fundraising #charity

Lowest temperature I have seen in Dumfries since we moved here. 25 minutes to defrost the car , late start in Stranraer as a result 😒

Can I ask you to RT this sad video, again, to raise awareness and hopefully money for @BrainTumourOrg 88,000 currently have a Brian Tumour diagnosis in the UK. 1% of the national cancer spend yet the biggest cancer killer in under 40's #Glioblastoma #cancer #braintumour #anneka❤️

It’s out! In time for Xmas. In @JoAWSurgery Educating men-compulsory reading in the enlightenment of gender diversity. Hope it helps - was an interesting journey for me. doi.org/10.3389/jaws.2022.11…

The deadline for @roux_group regional rep applications has been extended to 14th Dec 🗓️ All training and non-training grade doctors with an interest in UGI surgery are encouraged to apply. Please contact myself / nichola@augis.org with a 100-word EoI or for more information 🙌🏼

Definite chill in the air this morning.

Whitesands last night looking great on a mild Autumn evening #dumfries

Have you read the first page of your passport? As a former refugee, I do, I never take for granted my good fortune at being welcomed to make it my home. Her Majesty the Queen symbolised freedom and safety to me as a little girl. I never forgot it.

Ancient Greeks describe quality time as Kairos compared to Chronos which simply measures sequential hours. They were well aware of which one is most satisfying . Rotas need to move as close to Kairos as possible 🙂 greekcitytimes.com/2022/08/1…

Freedom!