Anna Patten
Just Tom... 🐁I never thought, when I trained or worked as a GP, that Diphtheria and Polio or, to a large extent, measles, would again be things that I might have to recognise. Nor would I have believed that malnutrition on a scale currently seen would be tolerated by society. I was wrong - how quickly are the hard-fought gains lost.
Speyquine (Lucy)@tompearce49 it's all really sad, and avoidable.
Cwnidog@speyquine @tompearce49 : And that it's avoidable makes it all the sadder. It's not that we can't do anything about it, it's that we *won't*.
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Christine Bell@tompearce49 it feel sad that so much progress has been lost and that the gap between rich and poor gets ever bigger
yrrej@tompearce49
Tuberculosis will soon be #1
Tuberculosis will soon be #1
AngelaEwart@tompearce49 My heart breaks for those children who are so poor,hungry and diseased in this hell of a country in 2022 . Where is the outrage !! The press should be screaming this from the roof tops and harassing members of the govt to give answers.But again they remain quiet , as they do on all stories about dire poverty . Disgraceful .
Melinda@tompearce49
It's like a return to the Victorian era. I feel that soon we will be asked to pay for GP appointments. Then it becomes an impossible choice. In the 1920s my mother had an inner ear abscess, her father tried to treat it with poultices. He could not afford a GP. It left her with a perforated ear drum and impaired hearing. We had health care that was the envy of the world, now we have capitalism.
It's like a return to the Victorian era. I feel that soon we will be asked to pay for GP appointments. Then it becomes an impossible choice. In the 1920s my mother had an inner ear abscess, her father tried to treat it with poultices. He could not afford a GP. It left her with a perforated ear drum and impaired hearing. We had health care that was the envy of the world, now we have capitalism.
Juggling With Eggs@Melinda @tompearce49 as a hard of hearing person I read this from the RNID today: https://rnid.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/ear-wax-removal-campaign/
It sounds trivial but not being able to afford to remove ear wax either leads to you doing daft and dangerous things to your ears or just the world going silent. It’s scary how fast we are going backwards as a nation when it comes to health.
It sounds trivial but not being able to afford to remove ear wax either leads to you doing daft and dangerous things to your ears or just the world going silent. It’s scary how fast we are going backwards as a nation when it comes to health.
Our ear wax removal campaign
We want to make sure everyone is offered clear advice on managing excess ear wax safely themselves and has access to professional removal within the NHS if self-management doesn’t work. We do not recommend you insert any object into your ear to remove wax. Find out safe ways of managing ear wax at home. The […]
Fen C@Melinda @tompearce49
My great-granny told me pre-NHS stories of having family (6) meetings to decide which meals to skip if one needed a doctor, to be able to pay. (She was born in 1894 and lived long enough for me to know her well.)
I never thought I'd live to see the day that a free-at-delivery socialised-cost NHS was under the threat it's under today. It's part of why I loathe Tories and their entire, vile mind-set.
My great-granny told me pre-NHS stories of having family (6) meetings to decide which meals to skip if one needed a doctor, to be able to pay. (She was born in 1894 and lived long enough for me to know her well.)
I never thought I'd live to see the day that a free-at-delivery socialised-cost NHS was under the threat it's under today. It's part of why I loathe Tories and their entire, vile mind-set.
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Shield Maiden@tompearce49 It's desperately sad, dire for UK's future. Look out next for rickets, scarlet fever and scabies. I'm not joking...I'm horrified.
Morticia Addams@Judeet88 @tompearce49 scarlet fever has killed half a dozen children in the U.K. recently - it’s Strep A. And it seems to be spreading around the country.
John Jenkins@tompearce49 I’m afraid that’s more evidence that doctors’ and scientists’ attempts to protect and improve public health are criticised, by some, as interference. Many of those same people can afford a good diet, warm houses and private medicine.
Rin (Rins2pworth Twitter)@tompearce49 ☹️ maybe gp surgerys and foodbanks should be in the same building ... The Torys have made a bad situation absolutely bloody awful
Antiqueight@tompearce49 Wait diphtheria too? (thankful now that it was included in the polio booster I got my GP to give me last time I saw her)
Crimpy McChosspyle@tompearce49 It's really sad to see this kind of needless regression! Those afflictions are so easily prevented.
I never thought that people would eschew vaccines, either.
Now people march in the street to oppose public health measures.
3 steps forward, 4 back...
@tompearce49 And when did scarlet fever return? I don't remember anyone getting it when I was young.
Not a doctor@tompearce49 One of my best friends is a #Polio #Survivor.
It went through her preschool even while the #vax was rolling out.
#Vaccines do not cause #autism - they cause #adulthood
It went through her preschool even while the #vax was rolling out.
#Vaccines do not cause #autism - they cause #adulthood
Rachel@tompearce49 it seems like two unrelated matters, if it’s the UK one is parents choosing not to vaccinate which being free and for the vast majority in walking/ bus distance which is not related to malnutrition caused by poverty.
Julia@tompearce49 I can’t imagine how demoralising it must be to have spent all that time training to give yourself to an under appreciated NHS to treat illnesses you wouldn’t expect to see in a supposed rich nation. Something has to give soon, we cannot go on like this. ❤️solidarity to all the workers and the wonderful NHS staff ❤️
Mihaela Filipescu@tompearce49 sorry to hear about this. They should teach you about this health problem.
Gareth Kitchen@tompearce49
I guess this is what end of Empire looks like.
I guess this is what end of Empire looks like.
Synkdancer@tompearce49 Ignorance is the most contagious disease of all. 🥺
Frank Wheeler@tompearce49 thanks for all you did Tom, it’s depressing I know. I just got out of a three day hospital stay and though I was admitted I ended up staying in the ER wing of the hospital. The reason was that the beds in the hospital were full of folks with Covid and the flu, folks who didn’t bother getting vaccinated or boosted.
Brian Coyle@tompearce49
Its really disgraceful and so unavoidable. This government and all it stands for has to go. No only is it responsible for the catastrophic decline in health and living standards, it laughs it off whilst squirrelling money 💰 away.
Its really disgraceful and so unavoidable. This government and all it stands for has to go. No only is it responsible for the catastrophic decline in health and living standards, it laughs it off whilst squirrelling money 💰 away.
Rowan Hagdorn@tompearce49 It sounds almost unbearably difficult. I wish you many joyful moments to help with the most difficult ones.
Swearygrandma@tompearce49 imho it’s bc the elites don’t need that many people anymore so it doesn’t matter what happens to them. They (the elites) are now kleptocrats and we are their prey 😰
Foxglove@tompearce49
My grandfather would be horrified. Society feels completely out of balance at the moment. I feel I owe it to him and my parents, who believed in fairness and equality, to argue for change.
The truth is, of course, that those with privilege only very rarely are prepared to support equality, which will have an impact on their power. But it has to happen.
My grandfather would be horrified. Society feels completely out of balance at the moment. I feel I owe it to him and my parents, who believed in fairness and equality, to argue for change.
The truth is, of course, that those with privilege only very rarely are prepared to support equality, which will have an impact on their power. But it has to happen.
@tompearce49 why do they no longer vaccinate against TB too? I’m 64, I remember the jab well. My 2 eldest daughters weren’t vaxxed against it ( age 44 and 42 now) but my 37 year old one was 🤷♀️ and as far as I know they haven’t done them for years now. Surely the only way to keep on top of these diseases is to continually vaccinate? Especially with the amount of world travel that there is nowadays.
uisge@tompearce49 Even more worrying is finding that medical students are fervent anti-vaxers or believe “medical” conspiracy theories
brewdog1950@tompearce49
It’s almost as though the Conservative government doesn’t really care at all about the electorate that it serves.
#tory
It’s almost as though the Conservative government doesn’t really care at all about the electorate that it serves.
#tory
@ijsbrand@tompearce49 Wow! True words!
SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙@tompearce49
And the Tories really don't care. They have fostered a climate of ignorance and are the direct cause of much of the poverty. And now children are dying because of it, and they still don't care.
They'll blame lockdown and move on. They'll ignore the cries of children and keep on lying.
LynneJones@tompearce49 We’re seeing #MassImpoverishment and it’s creeping up the income scale as wealth is accumulated by the O.1%. My article on 99-percent.org https://99-percent.org/the-road-to-serfdom-a-wake-up-call/
DayneKnite@tompearce49 Paianful to watch in real time
Bridget Clinch@tompearce49 I feel that this all started with sentiments like "what's the harm in letting people believe <insert pseudoscience/snake oil/woo/quackery/etc here>" then when social media came along we added "don't read the comments".
As a kid I couldn't believe adults would let people believe nonsense thinking there'd be no compounding harm, then I thought the interwebs would save us with unlimited information sharing. Somehow we ended up with frickin nazis and vaccine preventable diseases coming back in force. Now as an adult I have no faith in our species anymore. We don't collectively learn and evolve.
Drooling Fan Girl@tompearce49 Could I ask what country your practice is in?
@drooling_fan_girl retired now. Scotland.
@tompearce49 Thanks. For some things location doesn’t matter that much, for others it matters a whole lot.
Mike Malaska@tompearce49 gonna post a little piece of good news. Sleeping Sickness might get much better therapeutic treatment.
(But fully totally eradicated? I don't think so - there are animal reservoirs.)
((Was somewhat personally involved in this. I took over oxaborole program for other trypanosome parasites (leishmaniasis, Chagas) on Scynexis side after this olecule advanced to clinical trials. Our team still did small amount of effort for SCYX-7158 metabolite support.))
@mike_malaska - Thank you for this. I have been guilty of forgetting the enormous disease burden outside the temperate world - many of which diseases don't receive anything like the attention or funding that they deserve given the huge effect that they have on population health.
@tompearce49 DNDi really injected a lot of cash into that research. Helpful.
I had no idea about how prevalent some of the parasite diseases were. Sobering numbers.
Leishmaniasis, one that I worked on, gets zero press.
I had no idea about how prevalent some of the parasite diseases were. Sobering numbers.
Leishmaniasis, one that I worked on, gets zero press.
Grannie Annie@tompearce49 I have totally lost faith in people to do the right thing be they politicians or voters. It’s our NHS paid for with our money how dare they sell us out? It will take decades to repair the damage.
Johan Rylander@tompearce49 @paulina Indeed. Big improvements mostly come from a limited number of persons. When they stop, it is often just a matter if time. (I’m far from a saint myself)