Usama Basit
@usamabasit.bsky.social
🕋🇵🇰🇬🇧👨⚕️Tired parent💤 but fresh EM/PEM Consultant; @ShifaAlumni '07;
Love #PEM; Cooking; Family-ing. Awareness super-spreader. Own opinions. #Bluesky newbie
Love #PEM; Cooking; Family-ing. Awareness super-spreader. Own opinions. #Bluesky newbie
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Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country
February 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country
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January 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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This is so bad it’s almost laughable but racism in medicine is still very real, and leads to worse outcomes and more death & disease.
America is diverse. How can you claim to want to make America healthy when you think other races and ethnicities should only be able to receive disparate healthcare?
America is diverse. How can you claim to want to make America healthy when you think other races and ethnicities should only be able to receive disparate healthcare?
RFK saying that “Blacks” have better immune systems and shouldn’t get the same vaccines as white people should be disqualifying. But we live in really dumb times.
January 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is so bad it’s almost laughable but racism in medicine is still very real, and leads to worse outcomes and more death & disease.
America is diverse. How can you claim to want to make America healthy when you think other races and ethnicities should only be able to receive disparate healthcare?
America is diverse. How can you claim to want to make America healthy when you think other races and ethnicities should only be able to receive disparate healthcare?
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I will never forget a visit to Dachau with my (then) teenage daughters.
The words on the memorial wall were not " #NeverForget " - that wouldn't be enough.
The words in 5 languages:
#NeverAgain
The words on the memorial wall were not " #NeverForget " - that wouldn't be enough.
The words in 5 languages:
#NeverAgain
January 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I will never forget a visit to Dachau with my (then) teenage daughters.
The words on the memorial wall were not " #NeverForget " - that wouldn't be enough.
The words in 5 languages:
#NeverAgain
The words on the memorial wall were not " #NeverForget " - that wouldn't be enough.
The words in 5 languages:
#NeverAgain
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On this Holocaust Memorial Day, perhaps more than any in the last 80 years, the words #NeverForget ring hollow as they fall from the mealy mouths of our leaders.
We have forgotten & are all complicit if the crimes of the past unfold as we stand idle.
Let us make "Never Forget" mean something again
We have forgotten & are all complicit if the crimes of the past unfold as we stand idle.
Let us make "Never Forget" mean something again
three candles are lit up in the dark and one of them has a flame coming out of it
Alt: three candles are lit up in the dark and one of them has a flame coming out of it
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January 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
On this Holocaust Memorial Day, perhaps more than any in the last 80 years, the words #NeverForget ring hollow as they fall from the mealy mouths of our leaders.
We have forgotten & are all complicit if the crimes of the past unfold as we stand idle.
Let us make "Never Forget" mean something again
We have forgotten & are all complicit if the crimes of the past unfold as we stand idle.
Let us make "Never Forget" mean something again
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🧵1/5 #RCEMDiploma Oscars selfie eat your heart out!
Such a great pic from our College Officers, Council members, Deputy and Lead Examiners, as well as Directors of the College💜
🎓 They had such a brilliant day celebrating the achievements of the Members and Fellows at the Ceremony! 🎉
Such a great pic from our College Officers, Council members, Deputy and Lead Examiners, as well as Directors of the College💜
🎓 They had such a brilliant day celebrating the achievements of the Members and Fellows at the Ceremony! 🎉
January 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🧵1/5 #RCEMDiploma Oscars selfie eat your heart out!
Such a great pic from our College Officers, Council members, Deputy and Lead Examiners, as well as Directors of the College💜
🎓 They had such a brilliant day celebrating the achievements of the Members and Fellows at the Ceremony! 🎉
Such a great pic from our College Officers, Council members, Deputy and Lead Examiners, as well as Directors of the College💜
🎓 They had such a brilliant day celebrating the achievements of the Members and Fellows at the Ceremony! 🎉
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🧵2/5 Our Honorary Fellowships are for extraordinary contributions to EM.
Dr Jo Daniels, Clinical Psychologist @uniofbath.bsky.social, has been recognised at 🎓 #RCEMDiploma Ceremony, for work with RCEM which started in 2019 to improve our understanding of ED staff well-being & retention.
Dr Jo Daniels, Clinical Psychologist @uniofbath.bsky.social, has been recognised at 🎓 #RCEMDiploma Ceremony, for work with RCEM which started in 2019 to improve our understanding of ED staff well-being & retention.
January 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🧵2/5 Our Honorary Fellowships are for extraordinary contributions to EM.
Dr Jo Daniels, Clinical Psychologist @uniofbath.bsky.social, has been recognised at 🎓 #RCEMDiploma Ceremony, for work with RCEM which started in 2019 to improve our understanding of ED staff well-being & retention.
Dr Jo Daniels, Clinical Psychologist @uniofbath.bsky.social, has been recognised at 🎓 #RCEMDiploma Ceremony, for work with RCEM which started in 2019 to improve our understanding of ED staff well-being & retention.
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Dr Ian Higginson has been appointed as the next President of RCEM.
For now he is President Elect, and will officially take over from Dr Adrian Boyle after our AGM in the autumn.
Huge Congratulations Higgi from all at the College! 🎉
Read the full news: rcem.ac.uk/rcem-announces-next-president/
For now he is President Elect, and will officially take over from Dr Adrian Boyle after our AGM in the autumn.
Huge Congratulations Higgi from all at the College! 🎉
Read the full news: rcem.ac.uk/rcem-announces-next-president/
January 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Dr Ian Higginson has been appointed as the next President of RCEM.
For now he is President Elect, and will officially take over from Dr Adrian Boyle after our AGM in the autumn.
Huge Congratulations Higgi from all at the College! 🎉
Read the full news: rcem.ac.uk/rcem-announces-next-president/
For now he is President Elect, and will officially take over from Dr Adrian Boyle after our AGM in the autumn.
Huge Congratulations Higgi from all at the College! 🎉
Read the full news: rcem.ac.uk/rcem-announces-next-president/
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My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
January 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
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Be sure to know your specialty's KPIs inside out for your interview.
These metrics are crucial for evaluating care quality and efficiency.
These metrics are crucial for evaluating care quality and efficiency.
January 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Be sure to know your specialty's KPIs inside out for your interview.
These metrics are crucial for evaluating care quality and efficiency.
These metrics are crucial for evaluating care quality and efficiency.
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The right to free speech means that an individual is allowed to express their ideas without threat of persecution from a government.
It is NOT the right to merely be offensive.
It is NOT the right to present lies as facts.
It is NOT the right to be free of consequence.
It is NOT the right to merely be offensive.
It is NOT the right to present lies as facts.
It is NOT the right to be free of consequence.
January 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The right to free speech means that an individual is allowed to express their ideas without threat of persecution from a government.
It is NOT the right to merely be offensive.
It is NOT the right to present lies as facts.
It is NOT the right to be free of consequence.
It is NOT the right to merely be offensive.
It is NOT the right to present lies as facts.
It is NOT the right to be free of consequence.
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Certainly can be.
But often feels that there aren’t any alternatives.
I wonder if the evidence takes account of patients getting “stranded” in hospitals for a long time?
Would the harm be reduced if we could get them out of hospital as soon as acute treatment done?
But often feels that there aren’t any alternatives.
I wonder if the evidence takes account of patients getting “stranded” in hospitals for a long time?
Would the harm be reduced if we could get them out of hospital as soon as acute treatment done?
January 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Certainly can be.
But often feels that there aren’t any alternatives.
I wonder if the evidence takes account of patients getting “stranded” in hospitals for a long time?
Would the harm be reduced if we could get them out of hospital as soon as acute treatment done?
But often feels that there aren’t any alternatives.
I wonder if the evidence takes account of patients getting “stranded” in hospitals for a long time?
Would the harm be reduced if we could get them out of hospital as soon as acute treatment done?
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), 1st female dean of a British med school, and 1st female mayor in Britain, pretended to be rich during med school (in Paris, 1870) so admin would think she'd be able to sue if they suddenly said women couldn't be doctors 1/10
December 17, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), 1st female dean of a British med school, and 1st female mayor in Britain, pretended to be rich during med school (in Paris, 1870) so admin would think she'd be able to sue if they suddenly said women couldn't be doctors 1/10
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Those of us who are female physicians today owe a huge debt to our predecessors ⬇️
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), 1st female dean of a British med school, and 1st female mayor in Britain, pretended to be rich during med school (in Paris, 1870) so admin would think she'd be able to sue if they suddenly said women couldn't be doctors 1/10
December 17, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Those of us who are female physicians today owe a huge debt to our predecessors ⬇️
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I’m a trauma nurse in Madison, Wi. I’m a mother of two school age kids. I’m the wife of a mass shooting survivor.
Yet every single time my reaction is the same: complete heartbreak. It’s always someone else until it’s you.
Consider a donation tonight to @momsdemand.bsky.social.
Yet every single time my reaction is the same: complete heartbreak. It’s always someone else until it’s you.
Consider a donation tonight to @momsdemand.bsky.social.
December 17, 2024 at 3:52 AM
I’m a trauma nurse in Madison, Wi. I’m a mother of two school age kids. I’m the wife of a mass shooting survivor.
Yet every single time my reaction is the same: complete heartbreak. It’s always someone else until it’s you.
Consider a donation tonight to @momsdemand.bsky.social.
Yet every single time my reaction is the same: complete heartbreak. It’s always someone else until it’s you.
Consider a donation tonight to @momsdemand.bsky.social.
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Caught this in the gym. No volume, so didn’t hear what the threats were, but yeah. Such a reassuring chyron.
December 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Caught this in the gym. No volume, so didn’t hear what the threats were, but yeah. Such a reassuring chyron.
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One of the many reasons I left the U.K. and UK emergency medicine training
Corridor care is not right for patients or ED staff
Corridor care is not right for patients or ED staff
December 16, 2024 at 8:21 PM
One of the many reasons I left the U.K. and UK emergency medicine training
Corridor care is not right for patients or ED staff
Corridor care is not right for patients or ED staff
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In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️
December 14, 2024 at 3:24 PM
In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️
I can't wait to introduce you to my bug, Bear.
I'm going to adopt a dog and call him Peeve.
He'll be my pet, Peeve.
He'll be my pet, Peeve.
December 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM
I can't wait to introduce you to my bug, Bear.
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When I see how good a show Bluey is now, I get irrationally angry at how much Peppa Pig I had to endure before.
December 12, 2024 at 9:02 AM
When I see how good a show Bluey is now, I get irrationally angry at how much Peppa Pig I had to endure before.
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"If you became an ER doc because you loved thank you's, boy did you fuck up. Because your best work does not know who you are." - Dr. Billy Mallon
December 11, 2024 at 4:15 AM
"If you became an ER doc because you loved thank you's, boy did you fuck up. Because your best work does not know who you are." - Dr. Billy Mallon
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Just returned from an invigorating London Trauma Conference!
It was an honor to be able to join a great group of speakers on the stage, and to meet old friends and colleagues as well as new ones.
Thanks to Prof Lockey for the invite!
It was an honor to be able to join a great group of speakers on the stage, and to meet old friends and colleagues as well as new ones.
Thanks to Prof Lockey for the invite!
December 9, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Just returned from an invigorating London Trauma Conference!
It was an honor to be able to join a great group of speakers on the stage, and to meet old friends and colleagues as well as new ones.
Thanks to Prof Lockey for the invite!
It was an honor to be able to join a great group of speakers on the stage, and to meet old friends and colleagues as well as new ones.
Thanks to Prof Lockey for the invite!