Tarik Sammour
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Tarik Sammour
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide.
Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital + Adelaide Private Surgeons

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Healthcare Funding: Why we spend more and get less.

This is from my recent keynote at #tripartite2025 where we discuss why healthcare funding is failing, and how #Bitcoin fixes this.

youtu.be/4M-T8WVqwdo
Broken Money in Healthcare: Why we spend more and get less.
YouTube video by RAH Colorectal Research Group
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On this week’s cover of @thelancet.com Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”.

@racsurgeons.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Healthcare Funding: Why we spend more and get less.

This is from my recent keynote at #tripartite2025 where we discuss why healthcare funding is failing, and how #Bitcoin fixes this.

youtu.be/4M-T8WVqwdo
Broken Money in Healthcare: Why we spend more and get less.
YouTube video by RAH Colorectal Research Group
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
August 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Are you listening?

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August 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It is high time the medical community steps up and calls this what it is.

The deliberate targeting of medical personnel and destruction of health infrastructure is an affront to our entire profession and to everything it holds sacred.

@racsurgeons.bsky.social

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'Drone followed Gaza colleague home and wiped out his family', says British doctor
It comes after Donald Trump's Middle East envoy visited a food distribution site in Gaza. Steve Witkoff and the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, toured a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) dist...
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August 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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I have signed! Access to medical care is a human right. ✊️
If you are a #Surgeon working in Australia or New Zealand, please consider signing this letter.

We have colleagues there now. They need help.

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Open letter to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) re the situation in Gaza.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you are a #Surgeon working in Australia or New Zealand, please consider signing this letter.

We have colleagues there now. They need help.

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open letter to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) re the situation in Gaza.
openletter.earth
July 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Excited to report that the EARLY-TNT trial is officially open!

Working through ethics at all sites now, so if you are a colorectal unit in ANZ interested in participating, please contact us.

anzctr.org.au/Trial/Regist...
June 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Exciting times for #colorectal surgical oncology collaboration in South Australia.

Great morning meeting with the excellent @flindersuniversity.bsky.social colorectal MDT team.

Thank you Sia Tiong Cheng for hosting and the warm welcome!
May 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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We're excited that verification badges have made it easier to quickly recognize authentic accounts, especially in moments of breaking news.

Now, we're expanding our roll-out. Notable and authentic accounts can apply for verification or to become a Trusted Verifier via the form linked in our blog.
May 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Nizam Mamode broke down while testifying to the UK Parliament of his time volunteering in #Gaza, on how quadcopters would systematically arrive at the scene of fresh airstrikes in Gaza to "pick-off" the injured while they were laying on the floor, including children. www.threads.net/@jenna_leia....
November 12, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Best thing about Xmas in Australia.
December 27, 2023 at 8:49 AM
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As a general rule, I do not post photos of my family publicly, but this image of my kid in what appears to be the starring role of a horror film is too good not to share. It looked even spookier (and cooler) in real life.
December 27, 2023 at 4:47 AM
Hello World.
November 18, 2023 at 12:01 PM
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Exciting news: We’re taking another step to making Bluesky an open network for public conversations.

Around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.
November 16, 2023 at 5:15 PM