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Catherine Pope
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Professor of Medical Sociology, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford
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Missed you ☹️ hope your day gets better !
Another view of the piano at the station.
October 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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At #RCGP25 - inspired by plenary about #kindness in health care. Mum's GP did all this when mum was dying. Not sure my family have experienced any of this in the last few years. 😢
Kindness in cancer care - list - Len Barry et al 2017 J Oncol Pract. (11) 744
October 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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All this talk of the Rapture reminded me of this 1956 social psychology classic: When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken and Schachter.

Their 5 conditions /reasons why people hold onto beliefs also seem helpful for our current times .... 1/2
1956 book cover orange and purple
September 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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"The art of all truly great national leaders at all times consists in not dividing the attention of a people but in concentrating it upon a single foe." Adolf Hitler 1925.
The Farage (& Trump's) playbook is 'Look "small boats" "migrants"!'
Some of us have read the history. We know how this ends.
August 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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This was my holiday sculpture find for 2025. In Gardiner Museum, Toronto.
Pottery sculpture of a sleeping baby figure with large mouse ears and a hand cradling it.
July 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Apologies if you have had this already but afterwards you might like Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo.
Book - glory but no violet Bulawayo. Red cover. Big bold writing! And picture of goat.
July 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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More Dipex international conference - Lisa Zuidema from Netherlands, researching menstruation, pain and shame. Linking with Sharon Dixon to do some exciting cross country analysis. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
Conference presentation - people at desks looking at screen /speaker Slide asking questions about menstrual pain.
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Dr Sharon Dixon at Dipex international reflecting on being a medical doctor and (genuinely lovely) human, trying to research the experiences of young people and period pain. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
Conference presentation - room of people sat at tables looking at big screen
June 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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The inspirational Dr Tori Ford - medical herstory founder - talking at Dipex international conference about her work on Recurrent Thrush which is now on our health experiences website hexi.ox.ac.uk/Recurrent-Vu...
#hexi @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
Speaker in conference room - backdrop is screens with presentation
June 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Happy Days. I was on the bridge for the choir in the tower at 6am AND saw the inimitable John Otway for his 7am gig... Happy workers day back atcha my fabulous pal.
May 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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OMG this is indeed such fun. I had a go with 'never ice a tea towel' and feel that we now need some kind of public safety campaign...
Screen grab of the AI generated nonsense you get if you put "never ice a tea towel meaning" into Google! TLDR: they might spontaneously combust
April 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Horrified by the UK supreme court decision on biological sex. Sending morning hugs to my trans family, and will be singing a lot of Grace Petrie and being quite angry...
T shirt. Words read you never will surrender to a narrow view of gender. Grace Petrie
April 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Mitchell Duneier is one of my faves.
Cover of book Sidewalk featuring 6 photos of : Black sidewalk book sellers in the USA, and a road sign.
March 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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More colleagues in Primary Care at Oxford UK standing up in #solidarity today with our friends in the USA.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk

#StandUpForScience
March 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Here's some pics of us Standing up for Science here in Oxford UK. Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

#StandUpForScience
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People standing up for science outside Primary Care building Oxford People standing up for science outside Primary Care building Oxford
March 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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We stood up in the Oxford UK sunshine in #solidarity with scientists in the USA, and we are planning what else we can do to support @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Group of people outside Radcliffe Primary Care building Oxford - standing up for science (holding posters)
March 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Awesome. I'm encouraging colleagues here to use our regular Friday coffee break to think about how we at @oxprimarycare.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk might also #StandUpForScience. Do let me know what EUPHA decides to do....
Poster advertising a coffee break event 7/3/25 to talk about Stand up for Science. Picture of the USA poster and quotes about attacks on science.
March 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Taking comfort from small things. Here's a flag. It's the one that reminds me that inclusion means LGB & T & Q & + are welcome here.
So today I'll keep working on #diversity #equality and #inclusion and hope that my colleagues in the US can somehow keep this flag flying in these dark days.
Top of a redbrick building, flanked by tall trees, centre is small LGBTQ+ flag flying from a rooftop flagpole.
February 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Yes. Also read Paul Danahar's book the new middle east. Written in 2013. Prescient analysis, joining the dots and reminding us of important history that we should have been taught in school.
Red book cover with book title ' the new middle east' By Paul Danahar.
December 10, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Didn't see this one on your (fab) list... You might like it...
November 17, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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November 6, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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I saw her 'nightmare' /Mareritt yesterday. It is disturbing, provoking and magical... (not my greatest photo, sorry). I stared at it for ages figuring out that the rat creatures had eaten the people's hands...and heads...
Strange circular, cartoon like picture showing sleeping figures in beds, and lying down, and large rat like creatures, mingled with people, and assembling in the centre, some eating /have eaten the people...
November 5, 2023 at 10:18 AM