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Sarah J White
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Check out our online modules and get your CPD done!

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November 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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A former student, now doctor, messaged me about our online modules. Be like Michael!

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November 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Finally my Year 12 comparative studies on Blade Runner (and Brave New World) are directly relevant to my work! 😅 @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social
A screenshot with the text: Introduction In Ridley Scott's (1982) film Blade Runner, the "Voight-Kampff Empathy Test" distinguishes androids from humans by monitoring the subject's biometric responses while the examiner describes a series of grotesque scenes. This interpretation of Alan Turing's (1950) thought experiment, fictionalised by Phillip K. Dick, imagines a future of ubiquitous "strong deception" in human-machine communication (Natale, 2023), in which it has become otherwise impossible to tell them apart. By 2019, the year in which the film's events are set, Google's conversational artificial intelligence (Al) agent Duplex (Leviathan and Matias, 2018) was able to mimic human callers well enough to make booking calls to real restaurants and salons, with the artificial agent apparently passing as human "in the wild" at its product launch ionstration. Duplex has since been mithdrawn amid questions about the ethics
October 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… #kpdh #emca
October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Recording day today!
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October 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Aren’t they closing their public health department?!
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September 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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I had a great time facilitating a roundtable at the South Western Sydney Local Health District Corporate Services Conference 2025 on Friday. We discussed the challenges of interdisciplinary working and levels of formality as well as the opportunities for leadership in all conversations.
A photo of a page in a program that says: NSW South Western Sydney / Local Health District CORPORATE SERVICES CONFERENCE 20g5 ELEVATING CORPORATE SERVICES: CONNECTION, DEVELOPMENT. IMPACT Roundtables Using the science of conversation to improve communication 12.00pm - 1.00pm Dr Sarah White, Bedside Manners PTY LTD This interactive workshop explores how conversation works in practice, helping participants identify key communication challenges and reflect on strategies to address them. Using real-world examples and transcript data, we'll examine conversation in depth and discuss how to apply these insights in professional contexts. Sarah J White, PhD, is the Director of Bedside Manners Pty Ltd. Sarah is a social scientist who specialises in conversation analysis. She has over 18 years of experience as a communication educator and researcher, with particular expertise in healthcare communication and professional practice skills. Sarah is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University.
September 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Looking forward to some surgery soon 🥴
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September 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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New member of the family.
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September 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#IMGConference2025
September 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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If you’re at the IMG Conference, come say hi!
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September 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Looking for food and coffee recommendations near the state library!
September 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Oh hello
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September 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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It's been one year since my plenary talk at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare. In it, I drew together different threads of my work to argue for increased engagement with complexity to improve teaching and assessment of interprofessional healthcare communication.

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September 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Watching for the weekend to begin.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Been quite a few conferences in my timeline. Not sure what my next one will be as a researcher, but excited to be going to the IMG conference as an exhibitor soon!

Here’s some photos of baby me at my first conference - the NZ GP research meeting in 2006!
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August 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Also:
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August 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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There's now a special interest group for Conversation Analysis within the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Not sure I agree with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social comment “You can't give somebody a new piece of information and they like suddenly like you.”

Take this conversation between Jane and Elizabeth Bennet for example 😅
"My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him.?" "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."
July 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Pretty cool day today.
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July 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Most (sadly not all) surgeons respect and care for patients. But the way in which they do being compassionate may not be understood as such. We need to invest in increasing our understanding of how compassion is achieved through conversation and provided evidence based training.
July 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM