Kathryn Ryan
kmcryan.bsky.social
Kathryn Ryan
@kmcryan.bsky.social
Reposted by Kathryn Ryan
Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.

A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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If this is true - that "unhurried conversations are a fulcrum around which effective health care operates" - (spoiler: It is definitely true) - then Medicare is an incentive to the enshittification of health care in Australia.
December 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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It's here! My Churchill Fellowship report on my visit to Deep End GPs is published!
You can download it from here www.churchilltrust.c...
Of course you should read it - it's not dull - but if you want a quick spoiler, here are my recommendations - a brief thread...
December 15, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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This is really interesting, but completely focussed on the individual.
No mention of food security, employment, housing, poverty.
"Lifestyle therapy" can surely only work where you have favourable social determinants of health.
A national primary-care based trial is the largest ever to determine whether lifestyle therapy is as good as psychological care for improving mental and cardiometabolic outcomes for Australians with serious mental illness.

https://buff.ly/3ZuLRzY #medsky #healthcare #aushealth #research
December 5, 2024 at 10:22 PM