Kevin F McCarthy
@kfinmccarthy.bsky.social
Paediatric Anaesthesiologist & Pain Specialist. Polymath in training. Inventor of the West-facing RAE for dental anaesthesia.
Opinions own, etc. 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇦🇺
Opinions own, etc. 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇦🇺
Job Fairy: Paediatric Pain Specialist in Auckland, NZ.
Apply for my job & tell me what my colleagues say about me after I leave 😊
jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
#pain #paediatric #NewZealand
Apply for my job & tell me what my colleagues say about me after I leave 😊
jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
#pain #paediatric #NewZealand
Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority
Health New Zealand / Māori Health Authority
jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Job Fairy: Paediatric Pain Specialist in Auckland, NZ.
Apply for my job & tell me what my colleagues say about me after I leave 😊
jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
#pain #paediatric #NewZealand
Apply for my job & tell me what my colleagues say about me after I leave 😊
jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
#pain #paediatric #NewZealand
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The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
Saturdays at work be like…
September 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Saturdays at work be like…
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They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm
Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.
Anyway watch the stocks of whoever has the patent of leucovorin go up after the announcement. That’s all this is. Promoting Leucovorin so adults force their kids to ingest it to “cure their autism”.
But what is Leucovorin and why are they claiming it cures autism? 👇
But what is Leucovorin and why are they claiming it cures autism? 👇
September 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm
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Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?
September 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?
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Great new resource now that CDC cannot be fully trusted.
National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health
nam.edu/news-and-ins...
National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health
nam.edu/news-and-ins...
National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health - NAM
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has launched a new series of monthly discussions to help members of the public navigate many of the complex health
nam.edu
August 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Great new resource now that CDC cannot be fully trusted.
National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health
nam.edu/news-and-ins...
National Academy of Medicine Launches New Series to Help the Public Navigate Complex Health Debates; First Event Will Cover Ultra-Processed Foods and Children’s Health
nam.edu/news-and-ins...
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The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
August 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
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🎼 'Six Lords a-leaping'
'In February 2024, UKLFI celebrated the cancellation of a community kite-making workshop, citing claims that the children’s event was “reminiscent of 7 October paragliders”.'
Six of its nine patrons currently sit in the House of Lords'
novaramedia.com/2025/07/28/m...
'In February 2024, UKLFI celebrated the cancellation of a community kite-making workshop, citing claims that the children’s event was “reminiscent of 7 October paragliders”.'
Six of its nine patrons currently sit in the House of Lords'
novaramedia.com/2025/07/28/m...
August 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🎼 'Six Lords a-leaping'
'In February 2024, UKLFI celebrated the cancellation of a community kite-making workshop, citing claims that the children’s event was “reminiscent of 7 October paragliders”.'
Six of its nine patrons currently sit in the House of Lords'
novaramedia.com/2025/07/28/m...
'In February 2024, UKLFI celebrated the cancellation of a community kite-making workshop, citing claims that the children’s event was “reminiscent of 7 October paragliders”.'
Six of its nine patrons currently sit in the House of Lords'
novaramedia.com/2025/07/28/m...
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Editorial: Translating regional anaesthesia training into clinical impacts: is good instructional design good enough?
#RASky #AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
#RASky #AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
August 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Editorial: Translating regional anaesthesia training into clinical impacts: is good instructional design good enough?
#RASky #AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
#RASky #AnSky #MedSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
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I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽
October 7, 2024 at 10:04 AM
I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽
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Honey and analgesia
2 - 3 doses daily of oral honey/placebo in children post-tonsillectomy for 7 days, in addition to regular paracetamol, ibuprofen & as required oxycodone did not result in a clinical improvement in pain or recovery over a 14-day follow-up period.
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
2 - 3 doses daily of oral honey/placebo in children post-tonsillectomy for 7 days, in addition to regular paracetamol, ibuprofen & as required oxycodone did not result in a clinical improvement in pain or recovery over a 14-day follow-up period.
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
August 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Honey and analgesia
2 - 3 doses daily of oral honey/placebo in children post-tonsillectomy for 7 days, in addition to regular paracetamol, ibuprofen & as required oxycodone did not result in a clinical improvement in pain or recovery over a 14-day follow-up period.
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
2 - 3 doses daily of oral honey/placebo in children post-tonsillectomy for 7 days, in addition to regular paracetamol, ibuprofen & as required oxycodone did not result in a clinical improvement in pain or recovery over a 14-day follow-up period.
#AnSky
doi.org/10.1111/anae...
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A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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Statement from Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust about measles - Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust
Statement from Alder Hey about media interest in cases of measles
www.alderhey.nhs.uk
August 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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www.alderhey.nhs.uk/...
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www.alderhey.nhs.uk/...
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I'm begging everyone who hasn't yet to read this book. The premise, about a man living in an infinite house, is terrifically inventive, and it goes in a direction you don't expect. No other living author writes with such a keen sense of horror & beauty. The book of the decade.
July 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm begging everyone who hasn't yet to read this book. The premise, about a man living in an infinite house, is terrifically inventive, and it goes in a direction you don't expect. No other living author writes with such a keen sense of horror & beauty. The book of the decade.
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"On Wednesday, July 30, I stood trial in a German court for my opposition to genocide."
"A Jewish descendant of those murdered by Nazis, I am being labeled antisemitic for speaking out against the mass murder, the genocide of Palestinians."
#Germany #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Genocide
"A Jewish descendant of those murdered by Nazis, I am being labeled antisemitic for speaking out against the mass murder, the genocide of Palestinians."
#Germany #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Genocide
Nazis murdered my family in the Holocaust. Now Germany is punishing me for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has…
mondoweiss.net
August 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.
August 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.
Sublime 👌😘
Sinead O Connor vs Joy Division - The Joy Is Getting Married (Phil RetroSpector mashup) by Phil RetroSpector on #SoundCloud
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Sinead O Connor vs Joy Division - The Joy Is Getting Married (Phil RetroSpector mashup) by Phil RetroSpector on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com/philretrospe...
Sinead O Connor vs Joy Division - The Joy Is Getting Married (Phil RetroSpector mashup)
Sinead O' Connor vs Joy Division as imagined by Phil RetroSpector
soundcloud.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Sublime 👌😘
Sinead O Connor vs Joy Division - The Joy Is Getting Married (Phil RetroSpector mashup) by Phil RetroSpector on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com/philretrospe...
Sinead O Connor vs Joy Division - The Joy Is Getting Married (Phil RetroSpector mashup) by Phil RetroSpector on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com/philretrospe...
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This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:
Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza .رسالة مفتوحة إلى فريق بلوسكاي بشأن تعاملهم مع الفلسطينيين في غزة
Please review the open letter here and include your name below (if you are better known on Bluesky by your handle you could use that or add it to your name.) Thank you so much for caring about this co...
docs.google.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:
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"Microsoft, for example, cancelled the Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider" - they're making Proton sound bad :(
Flippancy aside, the general US trend is to dissolve the world's legal framework.
Flippancy aside, the general US trend is to dissolve the world's legal framework.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
apnews.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"Microsoft, for example, cancelled the Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider" - they're making Proton sound bad :(
Flippancy aside, the general US trend is to dissolve the world's legal framework.
Flippancy aside, the general US trend is to dissolve the world's legal framework.
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Absolute bonkers. Labour have taken leave of its senses. The social care sector is on its arse already due to a lack of capacity.
No flow to social care sector = No NHS activity.
No flow to social care sector = No NHS activity.
BREAKING: “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
May 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Absolute bonkers. Labour have taken leave of its senses. The social care sector is on its arse already due to a lack of capacity.
No flow to social care sector = No NHS activity.
No flow to social care sector = No NHS activity.
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US has pushed some nations facing tariffs imposed by Trump to approve Musk's Starlink, WaPo reported on Wednesday, citing State Dep cables.
The cables show how US embassies and the dep pushed countries to clear hurdles for satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name, the Post reported.
The cables show how US embassies and the dep pushed countries to clear hurdles for satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name, the Post reported.
May 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
US has pushed some nations facing tariffs imposed by Trump to approve Musk's Starlink, WaPo reported on Wednesday, citing State Dep cables.
The cables show how US embassies and the dep pushed countries to clear hurdles for satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name, the Post reported.
The cables show how US embassies and the dep pushed countries to clear hurdles for satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name, the Post reported.
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Systematic reviews are just as flawed as any other body of research if not more so.
A gold-standard systematic review may be the best source of evidence on a topic matter, but a bad one can be INCREDIBLY misleading.
A gold-standard systematic review may be the best source of evidence on a topic matter, but a bad one can be INCREDIBLY misleading.
May 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Systematic reviews are just as flawed as any other body of research if not more so.
A gold-standard systematic review may be the best source of evidence on a topic matter, but a bad one can be INCREDIBLY misleading.
A gold-standard systematic review may be the best source of evidence on a topic matter, but a bad one can be INCREDIBLY misleading.
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Slide-set for my talk at the @anzca.bsky.social ASM on the Management of Traumatic Haemorrhage
sthjournalclub.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/a... #ASM25CNS
In Cairns till Tuesday representing @anaesjournal.bsky.social and @assocanaes.bsky.social - happy to chat about potential submissions!
sthjournalclub.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/a... #ASM25CNS
In Cairns till Tuesday representing @anaesjournal.bsky.social and @assocanaes.bsky.social - happy to chat about potential submissions!
ANZCA 2025: Annual Scientific Meeting
This is the slide set for my talk at the ANZCA 2025 ASM: Futureproof The aim was to provide an evidence-based review of the management of traumatic major haemorrhage, along with an update of clinic…
sthjournalclub.wordpress.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Slide-set for my talk at the @anzca.bsky.social ASM on the Management of Traumatic Haemorrhage
sthjournalclub.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/a... #ASM25CNS
In Cairns till Tuesday representing @anaesjournal.bsky.social and @assocanaes.bsky.social - happy to chat about potential submissions!
sthjournalclub.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/a... #ASM25CNS
In Cairns till Tuesday representing @anaesjournal.bsky.social and @assocanaes.bsky.social - happy to chat about potential submissions!