Tom Dolphin 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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Chair of UK Council @bma.org.uk
Anaesthetic consultant
Fresh here from the bird app where I am thomasdolphin
Anaesthetic consultant
Fresh here from the bird app where I am thomasdolphin
Only on the model with hydrocoptic marzelvanes.
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Only on the model with hydrocoptic marzelvanes.
Tomorrow’s special representative meeting / conference hopes to tease out a bit of the detail but a lot is not yet known
September 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Tomorrow’s special representative meeting / conference hopes to tease out a bit of the detail but a lot is not yet known
It’s moved things further than you might think. The aim is for a radical GMS contract renegotiation to deal with the issues that have built up, but will need investment in GP (which the 10YHP includes, although unclear if shifting money from hospitals and if so, how not to destabilise them)
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It’s moved things further than you might think. The aim is for a radical GMS contract renegotiation to deal with the issues that have built up, but will need investment in GP (which the 10YHP includes, although unclear if shifting money from hospitals and if so, how not to destabilise them)
GPs in England did so last year; it has been considered elsewhere – different governments are in different places and the BMA tailors its approach to the situation in each nation
September 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
GPs in England did so last year; it has been considered elsewhere – different governments are in different places and the BMA tailors its approach to the situation in each nation
Oh god yes, not defending ChatGPT; you’d be lucky if it even managed to summarise without inserting a hallucinated extra character in there …
August 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Oh god yes, not defending ChatGPT; you’d be lucky if it even managed to summarise without inserting a hallucinated extra character in there …
To be clear, I’m not defending ChatGPT at all; I agree it’s a planet destroying plagiarism machine. I’m just saying, everything - every book on any topic - is to some degree a summary. No book is a complete description of its subject any more than a map can ever be more than an approximation.
August 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
To be clear, I’m not defending ChatGPT at all; I agree it’s a planet destroying plagiarism machine. I’m just saying, everything - every book on any topic - is to some degree a summary. No book is a complete description of its subject any more than a map can ever be more than an approximation.
Is it reasonable to ask someone to devote 4-6 hours to reading an entire book on a subject they have only a passing interest in, to inform a debate with a stranger online they’ll probably never interact with again? Summaries are helpful; everything is a summary, even Gibbons’ Decline and Fall…
August 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Is it reasonable to ask someone to devote 4-6 hours to reading an entire book on a subject they have only a passing interest in, to inform a debate with a stranger online they’ll probably never interact with again? Summaries are helpful; everything is a summary, even Gibbons’ Decline and Fall…
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