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Dipesh Gopal
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Doctor (GP) | @qmul-wiph.bsky.social research in cancer survivorship & health inequalities #survonc #lwbc | @gppact.bsky.social | Own views. RT≠end.

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · Mar 14
What have I been reading this month?
dipeshgopal.substack.com/p/dogs-and-n...

Should ultra-processed food be limited in early childhood?

Should we all get dogs?

How do we improve neighbourhood health?

Are 'medinfluencers' improving human health or just confusing everyone?
Dogs and neighbourhoods
Should we limit sugar for young children?
dipeshgopal.substack.com
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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gppact.bsky.social
PACT is continuing to evolve and we are recruiting new committee members for the period 2025-2028! 🙌
For further information, role descriptions and the application form, please see the recent news post on our website:
gppact.org/news/pact-is...
PACT is recruiting new committee members! — Primary care Academic CollaboraTive (PACT)
PACT is continuing to evolve and we are recruiting new committee members for the period 2025-2028! We have several exciting committee positions available and welcome applicants from all primary car...
gppact.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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sapc.ac.uk
SAPC ASM 2026, St Andrews, 24th - 26th June

For further details : sapc.ac.uk/conference/2...

#SAPC2026 #SAPC_ASM #PrimaryCare #AcademicMedicine #StAndrews
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
‘One of the strongest cases for harm is that time on these platforms is time away from nourishing interactions with other people.’

Great graph from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com showing that social media has become less social
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Social media has become less social Change in share of people reporting each reason for using social media (%) Source: GWI FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch
October 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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munkeatlooi.bsky.social
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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drkatie.bsky.social
If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital

We are the science museum!

➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….

1/x
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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nihrspcr.bsky.social
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated ‘Ovatools’, a new clinical tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve outcomes cost-effectively: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-per...

#SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research
@qmulprimarycare.bsky.social
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated ‘Ovatools’, a new clinical tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve outcomes cost-effectively: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-personalised-risk-score-could-improve-ovarian-cancer-detection #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @qmulprimarycare.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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nihrspcr.bsky.social
📢 Join our free event on the GP Patient Survey (GPPS), Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:00 - 15:30, featuring research highlights, a keynote from Dan Wellings (The King’s Fund) & Q&A with Ipsos. Register now: bit.ly/3JBiBC4

#SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social
📢 Join our free event on the GP Patient Survey (GPPS), Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:00 - 15:30, featuring research highlights, a keynote from Dan Wellings (The King’s Fund) & Q&A with Ipsos. Register now: https://bit.ly/3JBiBC4 #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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markmiodownik.bsky.social
Save your money. Studies show that tap water works just fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
Do You Need to Drink Electrolytes?
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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steve-everitt.bsky.social
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
August 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
A randomized trial of ultraprocessed (UPF) vs unprocessed food: UPF led to impaired cardiometabolic & male reproductive health outcomes, including reduced testosterone, sperm count/motility, increased inflammation, increased BP, worse lipids. Independent of caloric load.
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
August 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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trishaelliott.bsky.social
Teaching is an important skill in medicine, yet many of us have come across some outstandingly bad teachers!

Could we learn from the world of football?

In healthcare, I’ve found that there’s a strong overlap between good clinicians & good teachers.

#MedSky

Link:
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Throughout medical school and as teaching clinicians we are frequently reminded how the word doctor originates from the Latin docere—to teach. Teaching, for doctors, is considered an innate “competency,” genetically part of our DNA. Participation in teaching is a standard inclusion in the job description. Baked into this truism is a further expectation—that because we work as doctors, we can automatically teach others how to work as a doctor. This assumption about teaching is not necessarily endorsed outside medicine. Consider football for example, as an activity where everyone has an opinion on how they are trained. A talented footballer is not automatically considered a skilled coach. We can all think of examples here, both in football and in medicine, of skilled professionals who are not good teachers.
August 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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bjgp.bsky.social
Spotlight 30-sec preview on #QualitativeResearch: youtu.be/H4eRJ5Ev2jA
Are you a qualitative researcher? BJGP outlines key theoretical concepts from Prof. @kathcheckland.bsky.social in this 30-min video youtu.be/FxvdAtJdhxk. Read this linked editorial, free till 31 August: bjgp.org/content/75/7...
Qualitative research: key theoretical concepts – preview
YouTube video by BJGP
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August 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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english.lemonde.fr
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.
www.lemonde.fr
August 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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nuffieldtrust.org.uk
The NHS waiting list - and whether it's going up or down - is viewed as a key indicator of whether the NHS is delivering for the public.

But our latest analysis from Georgia Watson and Liz Fisher suggests that there is more to the numbers than meets the eye.

#QualityWatch
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Why is the planned care waiting list coming down and what does the data really tell us?
The waiting list for planned hospital care has plateaued and then come down over the past two years. In this QualityWatch analysis, Georgia Watson and Liz Fisher look at the factors affecting the…
buff.ly
August 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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madhupai.bsky.social
Explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects

@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social offers this nice example of measles vaccines in @plosglobalpublichealth.org article [Artwork by Fahim Akbar]

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
August 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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medcrisis.bsky.social
It was only a matter of time before the 1st case report of chatGPT-mediated medical harm was published. I have had patients say strange things to me in clinic that further questioning revealed were a result of asking chatGPT, but thankfully nothing harmful

(yes I’ve already texted it to chubbyemu)
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Aug 8
After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study:

www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
www.404media.co
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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bmj.com
Among the range of symptoms experienced by those with long covid, cognitive and mental health concerns are especially common.

This review provides an assessment of the nature, severity, and trajectory of neuropsychiatric long covid sequelae
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
July 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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munkeatlooi.bsky.social
Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship
www.bmj.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social
Private Eye hits the nail on the head
July 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
"Buff gym-bros and 'biohackers' inject themselves on TikTok while telling their audiences that they should be on 'T' even if their doctor disagrees." More on bro science
www.economist.com/united-state...
American men are hungry for injectable testosterone
A legion of new health clinics are serving it up
www.economist.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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rgouldinguom.bsky.social
Great presentation by Polly Duncan on primary care for housebound patients. What factors are associated with being housebound / who is most likely to be housebound? How can health care services better support their patients who are housebound? #sapc2025 @capcbristol.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk
Polly Duncan on stage, presenting at SAPC Final slide from Polly’s presentation, showing Alice, a housebound patient, and ways in which her care could have been better - better continuity, more time, MDT, training, patient-centred
July 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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bjgp.bsky.social
Patients registered at English general practices that arrange chest X-rays more often have improved #LungCancer survival and are diagnosed with earlier stage cancers
doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

#cancer #PrimaryCare
May 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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drhosang.bsky.social
💡Interesting to read the list of the 10 most cited papers ever 📊 (as reported by @nature.com). Number 9 is the Braun & Clarke paper on using #thematic analysis in #psychology !

@bpsofficial.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These are the most-cited research papers of all time
Some studies have received hundreds of thousands of citations, Nature’s updated analysis shows.
www.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM