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Penny Sucharitkul
@drpenwa.bsky.social
Bristol doctor, also known as sensei Penwa 🥊🥋. (Su-Char-Rit-Kul 🇹🇭)
Interested in Vasc Surgery, widening access & crochet 🧶
Ex-BMJ Clegg | Leeds alumni | F/U 🔗In
Pinned
The plan vs the outcome abdominal aortic aneurysm, but make it cute. 🧶
I'll be talking tonight as an alumni of University of Leeds about my research journey & my top tips!! If you're a medical student interested in research tune in at 6pm tonight via teams.

teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
February 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Hello. I am new to this medium, but if you are interested in medicine and in patient safety, please follow me.
February 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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And it’s out! The 7th edition of How to Read a Paper, coauthored with new blood in the shape of my ex PhD student Paul Dijkstra @drpauldijkstra.bsky.social. So good working with you on this Paul!
January 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
www.science.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM
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You want to meet 3 vascular journals ?
We are in Munich 🇩🇪 !!!#MAC2024
@EJVES #MartinBjork, @Seminars in Vascular Surgery #CaitlinHicks and @EjvesVF !
@jmills55.bsky.social @mattsmeds.bsky.social @drpenwa.bsky.social @jsmhoughton.bsky.social @tlforbes.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Happy rotation day! ✨️#MedSky
December 4, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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December 4, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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“As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof”

Sadiq Khan👏

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof | Sadiq Khan
Critics questioned my landmark policy but a new report backs it – and the big winners are children and their families, says the mayor of London Sadiq Khan
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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A poem inspired by reading about how doctors interrupt patients on an average approximately 18 seconds after the patient starts speaking. It also applies to personal relationships! Apologies to @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social for plagiarising the title of her brilliant book. #poetry #medsky
December 1, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Phew! Managed to get a seat on the 5 am Saturday 376 bus bound for Bristol from Somerset.
I had thought it would be packed!

Not sure what time Dr Foster set off Gloucester but
@greenparty.org.uk events are worth going the extra mile for!

#VoteGreen #JoinGreen
November 30, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Fantastic to present our lipid audit in PAD inpatients, the best double act so far ✨️
Significantly increased rates of lipid screening, high intensity statin and ezetimibe prescription by 3mth and sustained at 6mths #VSASM2024 #vascularsky #academia
November 28, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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🚨🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP 🚨🚨

We are developing core outcome sets for symptomatic #PAD - one each for claudication and #CLTI

If you’re a healthcare professional or researcher with experience of PAD patients please consider contributing to a focus group 👇

#vsasm2024 #vascsky #medsky
November 28, 2024 at 8:15 AM
CLARITY and LEADER-PAD trials exciting times #VSASM2024
November 28, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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GMC Workforce Report

Some of the most challenging aspects of this report are the low numbers of Doctors completing Foundation Year 2 who enter directly into training programs, now representing just 1 in 4 (25%) down from 2 in 3 (67%) in 2012.

www.gmc-uk.org/news/news-ar...
UK risks ‘sleepwalking’ into a waste of doctors’ skills, GMC Chief Executive warns
A GMC Website page that might be of interest to you.
www.gmc-uk.org
November 28, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Comparative carbon footprint analysis of a conference poster exhibition!
November 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Sam Smith presenting on POC genotyping testing for CYP2C19 - which affects sensitivity and response to clopidogrel #VSASM2024
November 27, 2024 at 8:35 AM
#VSASM2024 Brighton.
Fantastic presentations at the VS this year. Big themes of AI use and clopidogrel resistance. #medsky #vacularsky
November 27, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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🚨🚨🚨 New paper 🚨🚨🚨

Delighted to share the primary analysis of the LIMb study.

Headline finding is a 57% reduction in risk of major amputation in patients managed under expedited treatment pathways vs a historical cohort.

#vascsky #medsky #CLTI

www.ejves.com/article/S107...
DEFINE_ME
www.ejves.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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At #VSASM2024
Well done Raj! #vascular
November 27, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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"Early Career Academic" covers anyone between masters degree and retirement
November 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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I've enjoyed this cute AAA that it's getting memed

#medsky
November 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Ok I've confused some people, yes if you invert it, it could be a uterus, but what I was going for is a swelling of the aorta (big blood vessel)
November 26, 2024 at 10:08 AM
The plan vs the outcome abdominal aortic aneurysm, but make it cute. 🧶
November 25, 2024 at 4:33 PM