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Dr Neela Janakiramanan @NeelaJan

👋 Surgery, words, health equity, refugee health 👜 Reconstructive & hand surgeon ❀ Columns novels 📖 Bestselling author of ‘The Registrar’ (Rep @mjostell)

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Dr Neela Janakiramanan@NeelaJan
4 Jul 2022
Happy publication day to my book baby đŸ„ł I hope you’ll 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 it’s 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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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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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 don’t want to or can’t take a train)
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Nailbed injuries are over treated. Most squished fingertips just need a band aid and time.
Sam Ghali, M.D.
@EM_RESUS
12 Apr 2024
What’s your unpopular medical opinion that would land you in this position? Drop it in this thread
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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 ‘don’t go back for your hat’ a new Australian saying.
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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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In case it’s not clear, all my hot takes, but particularly points 2 and 3, are separate. Schizophrenia doesn’t 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. đŸ‘‡đŸœ
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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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Every photo of video of ‘kids being kids’ 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.
TheBossRoss đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș đŸ§¶ ❄ đŸ“· 6x💉@BettinaSRoss1
28 Mar 2024
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? That’s a huge difference

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If any Australian government believes they were elected with a mandate to ‘protect our borders’ then they will do exactly that. Let’s be clear: this is not just them, this is all of us.
Rashida Yosufzai@Rashidajourno
13 Mar 2024
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. sbs.com.au/news/article/gaza
 @annajhenderson @rayane_tamer
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This is the ‘real stuff’. No one - not one patient - is ‘anatomy’ or ‘physiology’. 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.
Shycollie
@shycollie
3 Mar 2024
Replying to @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, there’s 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 “I am on strike” has arrived.
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“On strike” includes all intellectual labour.
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Dr Neela Janakiramanan retweeted
Natalie Thurtle@Turtle1doc
19 Dec 2023
A representative quote from Chris, who is very understated and not at all prone to hyperbole. This is the reality.
MSF International
@MSF
19 Dec 2023
Replying to @MSF
“Doctors are stepping over bodies of dead children to treat other children who will die anyway,” says Chris Hook, MSF medical team leader in Gaza.. Read our latest update on the dire situation in south Gaza 👇 msf.org/no-safe-place-gaza-p

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I met the brilliant @KZiwica at the kinder gate in 2014. Our second kids graduated primary school together tonight. Every woman deserves a fellow feminist at the school gate. If you find one, hold her close.
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True story. The first time I met @ellenmfanning on The Drum she said to me: “if I don’t get your name right, you can call me Helen” She did get my name right. And it made me feel so respected, as so few even try. And I’ve struggled to not call her Helen ever since 😂
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And I think it’s important to acknowledge that this small act is wholly representative of how inclusive (and therefore representative) the program has been. Getting names right shouldn’t be a notable act, but it is. That genuine care towards diverse panellists permeated the team.
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