Rick Body
@richardbody.bsky.social
Emergency Medicine Professor. Incoming Editor in Chief at the Emergency Medicine Journal. Chair of the NICE Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee
🎥 We’ve produced a short video to highlight the value of partnership between the @nihr.bsky.social Manchester Biomedical Research Centre and industry.
🎬 We believe this is crucial to drive improvements to health and care.
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🎬 We believe this is crucial to drive improvements to health and care.
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Spotlight On: Innovation and Partnerships
YouTube video by NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre
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November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🎥 We’ve produced a short video to highlight the value of partnership between the @nihr.bsky.social Manchester Biomedical Research Centre and industry.
🎬 We believe this is crucial to drive improvements to health and care.
youtu.be/PeIiFLhwCiI?...
🎬 We believe this is crucial to drive improvements to health and care.
youtu.be/PeIiFLhwCiI?...
Reposted by Rick Body
Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
November's EMJ podcast has dropped, featuring...
🐱Garfield the cat (guest appearance) & @drsarahedwards.bsky.social
🫀 Resuscitation manikins & diversity
🧠 Functional neurology
👶 Serious bacterial infection in infants
🚁 Sedation in HEMS
🍎 lnkd.in/ebTjEkSw
🎧 lnkd.in/ekZij7MD
🛜 lnkd.in/esHRsMBz
🐱Garfield the cat (guest appearance) & @drsarahedwards.bsky.social
🫀 Resuscitation manikins & diversity
🧠 Functional neurology
👶 Serious bacterial infection in infants
🚁 Sedation in HEMS
🍎 lnkd.in/ebTjEkSw
🎧 lnkd.in/ekZij7MD
🛜 lnkd.in/esHRsMBz
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
November's EMJ podcast has dropped, featuring...
🐱Garfield the cat (guest appearance) & @drsarahedwards.bsky.social
🫀 Resuscitation manikins & diversity
🧠 Functional neurology
👶 Serious bacterial infection in infants
🚁 Sedation in HEMS
🍎 lnkd.in/ebTjEkSw
🎧 lnkd.in/ekZij7MD
🛜 lnkd.in/esHRsMBz
🐱Garfield the cat (guest appearance) & @drsarahedwards.bsky.social
🫀 Resuscitation manikins & diversity
🧠 Functional neurology
👶 Serious bacterial infection in infants
🚁 Sedation in HEMS
🍎 lnkd.in/ebTjEkSw
🎧 lnkd.in/ekZij7MD
🛜 lnkd.in/esHRsMBz
If you see this, quote with a robot that is not from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that is not from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers
Latest EMJ podcast now out, covering 🥁🥁🥁
🩸 Blood products in paediatric trauma
⌚ Predicting ED waiting times 👀
🔍 Same Day Emergency Care
📲 Digital streaming tools
📖 Plus, 'Whose turn is it?' A SUBLIME poem ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
🍎 lnkd.in/eYat4HpQ
🎧 lnkd.in/eQaz_yVV
🛜 lnkd.in/eggSh7yU
🩸 Blood products in paediatric trauma
⌚ Predicting ED waiting times 👀
🔍 Same Day Emergency Care
📲 Digital streaming tools
📖 Plus, 'Whose turn is it?' A SUBLIME poem ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
🍎 lnkd.in/eYat4HpQ
🎧 lnkd.in/eQaz_yVV
🛜 lnkd.in/eggSh7yU
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Latest EMJ podcast now out, covering 🥁🥁🥁
🩸 Blood products in paediatric trauma
⌚ Predicting ED waiting times 👀
🔍 Same Day Emergency Care
📲 Digital streaming tools
📖 Plus, 'Whose turn is it?' A SUBLIME poem ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
🍎 lnkd.in/eYat4HpQ
🎧 lnkd.in/eQaz_yVV
🛜 lnkd.in/eggSh7yU
🩸 Blood products in paediatric trauma
⌚ Predicting ED waiting times 👀
🔍 Same Day Emergency Care
📲 Digital streaming tools
📖 Plus, 'Whose turn is it?' A SUBLIME poem ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
🍎 lnkd.in/eYat4HpQ
🎧 lnkd.in/eQaz_yVV
🛜 lnkd.in/eggSh7yU
October’s quote of the month is from a Langston Hughes poem.
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly”.
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly”.
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
October’s quote of the month is from a Langston Hughes poem.
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly”.
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly”.
It’s September, so it’s time for another office quote of the month! This time, it’s from Carl Jung
September 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It’s September, so it’s time for another office quote of the month! This time, it’s from Carl Jung
I’m honoured to be starting as Editor in Chief at the Emergency Medicine Journal from January 2026.
😬🤩 I’m both daunted and excited, I’m so grateful to Ellen Weber and all the fantastic people I’ve been working with on this journey & I’m looking forward to building a bright future for the EMJ! 📈🚀
😬🤩 I’m both daunted and excited, I’m so grateful to Ellen Weber and all the fantastic people I’ve been working with on this journey & I’m looking forward to building a bright future for the EMJ! 📈🚀
September 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I’m honoured to be starting as Editor in Chief at the Emergency Medicine Journal from January 2026.
😬🤩 I’m both daunted and excited, I’m so grateful to Ellen Weber and all the fantastic people I’ve been working with on this journey & I’m looking forward to building a bright future for the EMJ! 📈🚀
😬🤩 I’m both daunted and excited, I’m so grateful to Ellen Weber and all the fantastic people I’ve been working with on this journey & I’m looking forward to building a bright future for the EMJ! 📈🚀
Reposted by Rick Body
We are excited to launch our new talk series: Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems (CORE) Talks. Free Zoom seminars on policy-relevant evidence about EDs, telemedicine, and urgent care.
www.coretalks.org
Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”
www.coretalks.org
Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”
September 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We are excited to launch our new talk series: Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems (CORE) Talks. Free Zoom seminars on policy-relevant evidence about EDs, telemedicine, and urgent care.
www.coretalks.org
Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”
www.coretalks.org
Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”
Three weeks ago, a patient kicked me so hard in the temple. It took at least 10 days to recover from the concussion.
Tonight, it happened *again* - kicked in the eye & across the room by another patient as I calmly tried to talk him down.
I’m not the only one. And it’s completely unacceptable.
Tonight, it happened *again* - kicked in the eye & across the room by another patient as I calmly tried to talk him down.
I’m not the only one. And it’s completely unacceptable.
July 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Three weeks ago, a patient kicked me so hard in the temple. It took at least 10 days to recover from the concussion.
Tonight, it happened *again* - kicked in the eye & across the room by another patient as I calmly tried to talk him down.
I’m not the only one. And it’s completely unacceptable.
Tonight, it happened *again* - kicked in the eye & across the room by another patient as I calmly tried to talk him down.
I’m not the only one. And it’s completely unacceptable.
Reposted by Rick Body
Too many of my peers & those decades older are not cognisant of the facts around the problems for Resident Doctors
Who are paid 20-30% less, have £100k student debt, will have substantially lower pensions
Yet here they are speaking to the media from their positions of privilege
Check the facts🤷🏻♂️
Who are paid 20-30% less, have £100k student debt, will have substantially lower pensions
Yet here they are speaking to the media from their positions of privilege
Check the facts🤷🏻♂️
July 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Too many of my peers & those decades older are not cognisant of the facts around the problems for Resident Doctors
Who are paid 20-30% less, have £100k student debt, will have substantially lower pensions
Yet here they are speaking to the media from their positions of privilege
Check the facts🤷🏻♂️
Who are paid 20-30% less, have £100k student debt, will have substantially lower pensions
Yet here they are speaking to the media from their positions of privilege
Check the facts🤷🏻♂️
Reposted by Rick Body
Reposted by Rick Body
Always .
Last shift I sat down with an upset colleague and counselled them .
The previous shift I broke very bad news to a patient and family .
Later on in that shift an aggressive man triggered my latent PTSD and the team looked after me .
We must take time to be compassionate .
Last shift I sat down with an upset colleague and counselled them .
The previous shift I broke very bad news to a patient and family .
Later on in that shift an aggressive man triggered my latent PTSD and the team looked after me .
We must take time to be compassionate .
June 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Always .
Last shift I sat down with an upset colleague and counselled them .
The previous shift I broke very bad news to a patient and family .
Later on in that shift an aggressive man triggered my latent PTSD and the team looked after me .
We must take time to be compassionate .
Last shift I sat down with an upset colleague and counselled them .
The previous shift I broke very bad news to a patient and family .
Later on in that shift an aggressive man triggered my latent PTSD and the team looked after me .
We must take time to be compassionate .
June’s quote of the month for my office board.
This one is courtesy of Carl Jung!
This one is courtesy of Carl Jung!
June 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
June’s quote of the month for my office board.
This one is courtesy of Carl Jung!
This one is courtesy of Carl Jung!
Is there still room for compassion in emergency care?
I answered this question in a @stemlyns.bsky.social blog, over a decade after I first led research on this topic, which should always be at the heart of emergency care…
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
I answered this question in a @stemlyns.bsky.social blog, over a decade after I first led research on this topic, which should always be at the heart of emergency care…
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
Is there still room for compassion in emergency care?
This blog post explores the important issue of compassion in emergency care. With all the pressures we currently face, it can be extremely hard to remain compassionate. I explore common barriers to co...
www.stemlynsblog.org
June 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Is there still room for compassion in emergency care?
I answered this question in a @stemlyns.bsky.social blog, over a decade after I first led research on this topic, which should always be at the heart of emergency care…
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
I answered this question in a @stemlyns.bsky.social blog, over a decade after I first led research on this topic, which should always be at the heart of emergency care…
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
Is there still room for compassion in emergency care? At @stemlyns.bsky.social.
Over a decade after I first talked about this topic, I revisited it with some of the many things I’ve learned more recently about compassion in our daily practice.
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
Over a decade after I first talked about this topic, I revisited it with some of the many things I’ve learned more recently about compassion in our daily practice.
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
Is there still room for compassion in emergency care?
This blog post explores the important issue of compassion in emergency care. With all the pressures we currently face, it can be extremely hard to remain compassionate. I explore common barriers to co...
www.stemlynsblog.org
May 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Is there still room for compassion in emergency care? At @stemlyns.bsky.social.
Over a decade after I first talked about this topic, I revisited it with some of the many things I’ve learned more recently about compassion in our daily practice.
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
Over a decade after I first talked about this topic, I revisited it with some of the many things I’ve learned more recently about compassion in our daily practice.
www.stemlynsblog.org/is-there-sti...
The FA has banned trans women from playing women’s football.
What problem does it solve? How were the 0.0002% of players who are trans (none of them professional) causing harm?
Sport should be inclusive, it’s so important for health. Excluding whole groups without justification is totally wrong.
What problem does it solve? How were the 0.0002% of players who are trans (none of them professional) causing harm?
Sport should be inclusive, it’s so important for health. Excluding whole groups without justification is totally wrong.
May 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The FA has banned trans women from playing women’s football.
What problem does it solve? How were the 0.0002% of players who are trans (none of them professional) causing harm?
Sport should be inclusive, it’s so important for health. Excluding whole groups without justification is totally wrong.
What problem does it solve? How were the 0.0002% of players who are trans (none of them professional) causing harm?
Sport should be inclusive, it’s so important for health. Excluding whole groups without justification is totally wrong.
One of my favourite quotes from Pope Francis, who said he would be a “Pope of the poor”.
He spoke out against injustice, emphasizing the need for compassion, calling for peace & strongly supporting the Palestinian people under attack. Rest in peace.
He spoke out against injustice, emphasizing the need for compassion, calling for peace & strongly supporting the Palestinian people under attack. Rest in peace.
April 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
One of my favourite quotes from Pope Francis, who said he would be a “Pope of the poor”.
He spoke out against injustice, emphasizing the need for compassion, calling for peace & strongly supporting the Palestinian people under attack. Rest in peace.
He spoke out against injustice, emphasizing the need for compassion, calling for peace & strongly supporting the Palestinian people under attack. Rest in peace.
It’s right that our society should be worried about women’s safety. Violence against women & girls is rife, and we all have a responsibility to tackle it.
But the answer is not to blame trans people.
Effectively banning legal gender transition will not help.
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
But the answer is not to blame trans people.
Effectively banning legal gender transition will not help.
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
April 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s right that our society should be worried about women’s safety. Violence against women & girls is rife, and we all have a responsibility to tackle it.
But the answer is not to blame trans people.
Effectively banning legal gender transition will not help.
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
But the answer is not to blame trans people.
Effectively banning legal gender transition will not help.
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
This makes me extremely proud to work at MFT.
We have the *only* printed collection of the human genome in the UK with each chromosome *organised by colour*.
Outstanding.
We have the *only* printed collection of the human genome in the UK with each chromosome *organised by colour*.
Outstanding.
We are one of three libraries in the UK that have the entire printed collection of the human genome.
As far as we know we are the only library who organises each chromosome by colour!
As far as we know we are the only library who organises each chromosome by colour!
April 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This makes me extremely proud to work at MFT.
We have the *only* printed collection of the human genome in the UK with each chromosome *organised by colour*.
Outstanding.
We have the *only* printed collection of the human genome in the UK with each chromosome *organised by colour*.
Outstanding.
Quote of the month.
This is from Charlie Chaplin’s famous ‘The Great Dictator’ speech, and I think it’s pertinent right now.
This is from Charlie Chaplin’s famous ‘The Great Dictator’ speech, and I think it’s pertinent right now.
April 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Quote of the month.
This is from Charlie Chaplin’s famous ‘The Great Dictator’ speech, and I think it’s pertinent right now.
This is from Charlie Chaplin’s famous ‘The Great Dictator’ speech, and I think it’s pertinent right now.
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility.
Trans people face huge challenges from >5 year NHS waiting lists for care to homelessness (1 in 5) to >40% of employers unsure if they’d employ a trans person, verbal abuse (85%), assault (29%/3 years) & much more.
It’s more important than ever to mark today 🏳️⚧️
Trans people face huge challenges from >5 year NHS waiting lists for care to homelessness (1 in 5) to >40% of employers unsure if they’d employ a trans person, verbal abuse (85%), assault (29%/3 years) & much more.
It’s more important than ever to mark today 🏳️⚧️
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility.
Trans people face huge challenges from >5 year NHS waiting lists for care to homelessness (1 in 5) to >40% of employers unsure if they’d employ a trans person, verbal abuse (85%), assault (29%/3 years) & much more.
It’s more important than ever to mark today 🏳️⚧️
Trans people face huge challenges from >5 year NHS waiting lists for care to homelessness (1 in 5) to >40% of employers unsure if they’d employ a trans person, verbal abuse (85%), assault (29%/3 years) & much more.
It’s more important than ever to mark today 🏳️⚧️
Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim friends and colleagues, and to everyone celebrating!
I hope you all have a fantastic celebration and get to spend some time off work.
I hope you all have a fantastic celebration and get to spend some time off work.
a crescent moon with gold stars and the words eid mubarak
ALT: a crescent moon with gold stars and the words eid mubarak
media.tenor.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim friends and colleagues, and to everyone celebrating!
I hope you all have a fantastic celebration and get to spend some time off work.
I hope you all have a fantastic celebration and get to spend some time off work.
Does this make America great? They have deported people to be locked up in a for-profit super prison in a third country, with no trial, some apparently simply because they ‘had a tattoo’. How could humans do this?
😢
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I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
March 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Does this make America great? They have deported people to be locked up in a for-profit super prison in a third country, with no trial, some apparently simply because they ‘had a tattoo’. How could humans do this?
😢
😢
Reposted by Rick Body
This feels like a Parkland shooting moment. If Americans don't care about dead kids we aren't gonna get gun control.
If they don't care about their OWN DEAD KIDS then I'm not sure how you fight back against that
If they don't care about their OWN DEAD KIDS then I'm not sure how you fight back against that
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
March 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This feels like a Parkland shooting moment. If Americans don't care about dead kids we aren't gonna get gun control.
If they don't care about their OWN DEAD KIDS then I'm not sure how you fight back against that
If they don't care about their OWN DEAD KIDS then I'm not sure how you fight back against that