The more dangerously you live, the more you live! x.com/yellowdoodle1x/status/…

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us. Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. "NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

Me on january 1: “2026 is my year" Me on january 17th 2026:

Day 9 of 2026

Today my paper Scapegoating in Healthcare: A Primitive Response to Tragedy was published open access... I feel some anxiety in publishing it...as though, as with my NHS paper, I am provoking the primitive god of healthcare...I felt compelled to write it after witnessing, over many years of clinical work, repeated and deeply distressing episodes of scapegoating following tragic outcomes in healthcare. ...Again and again, unbearable grief, fear, and uncertainty are collapsed into simplified narratives of blame, with profound consequences for individuals, organisations, patient care and society more broadly. ...journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Not to brag but I have enough money to not work for the rest of 2025

The first person in the world to kick his own balls… That’s history right here!

Eminem been real quiet since this dropped…

Novak Djokovic shut down the “mental toughness is a gift” myth in 90 seconds of pure gold. Interviewer: “Your mental strength is your greatest gift.” Djokovic: “I have to correct you. It’s not a gift. It’s work. Every single day.” He trains his mind like his serve: - Conscious breathing under maximum pressure - Feels the full storm of doubt & fear EVERY match - Rejects the fake “just think positive” nonsense “I acknowledge it. I might scream. Then I reset — fast.” The difference between 24 Slams and everyone else? How quickly you leave the darkness. This isn’t motivation porn. This is the actual operating system of the greatest ever. Watch with sound — it will rewire how you think about pressure.

You can ask Grok about medical trials of new treatments that affect you!

A day of re-affirmation of one simple thing. Hold your own ground, stick to your values- don't give up your integrity. And you can hold your head high and smile at anyone. The aversion of eyes is never yours. And the fact that everyone knows that too? Is sweet

Men, Stop doubting your worth‼️

"I think Elon Musk’s the Thomas Edison of our age. I think he's a very good person. He wants to do the right thing, if I had to say one thing, he wants to do the right thing, to transform the lot of most of humanity."

The PLAB is a GMC gravy train that exploits IMG doctors. The GMC is going to fight tooth & nail to maintain this income stream at the expense of the medical profession. Make no mistake, those with the power to actually positively change things are not incentivised to do so.

It’s wild watching people bend over backwards to avoid the one comparison that instantly exposes the problem. The US is the only major system that simply cannot pad out training with years of cheap service work. ACGME and CMS rules won’t allow it. You have to train, not fill staffing holes. Which is why American residents come out fully-fledged in a fraction of the time: hospitalists in 3 years, general surgeons in 5, cardiology/onc/pulm-crit in 6. High volume, high intensity, almost no scut, and no endless “junior limbo.” If universal healthcare only functions by holding doctors in low-paid junior roles for a decade, stretching training far beyond what is educationally necessary, and extracting service from them at a discount, then that is not a triumph of equity. That is a workforce model living off exploitation. Universal care isn’t the issue. Universal care built on squeezing trainees to make the numbers work is. If the UK wants a sustainable system, it needs to stop pretending that bottlenecks, cheap labour, and artificially prolonged junior years are “standards.” They’re cost containment. And they’re breaking the workforce. #healthpolicy

“Your boos don’t mean anything to me I’ve seen what you people cheer for “ - RS

I see the @gmcuk has expressed concern about International Medical Graduates leaving / numbers dwindling etc from the #NHS Is this: 1. Genuine Concern? 2. Worry about impact on revenue stream aka PLAB? 3. Worry as to who will do the LE roles that no one else wants to do- (please see @bmj_latest investigation)? 4. Realising PAs won't fill the roles local grads won't do? Answers on a postcard. @NHSEngland @NHSEmployers @NHSProviders

Debunked: doctors “gold plated” pension Not £125k, more like £40k due to: 1. Most doctors not progressing through training (thanks @wesstreeting) 2. Leaving early due to burnout 3. Most doctors not working 40 years “full time” (aka 48h/week average) 4. No guaranteed consultant job at the end The 2015 NHS pension is not “gold plated”. It’s gold leaf slapped on a pile of previous pension cuts.