Dr Helen Williams

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A medical scientist and mum of three. My main research interests are cardiovascular disease and wound healing. I like to eat chocolate and bake things.
Show threadDr Helen WilliamsDec 2, 2022

@DrLindseyFitzharris @wsj

I am sorry this happened but very appreciative of you sharing your story alongside some history. As a medical scientist who is interested in history, I think you're a wonderful person to be following and I really enjoy your posts.

Dr Helen WilliamsDec 2, 2022
Dr Lindsey FitzharrisDec 1, 2022

"'Do you see the puckering around this white mass?' The radiologist pointed to a white blur on the monochrome scan. To my untrained eye, it resembled a comet throwing out plumes of dust in the blackness of space. 'That’s a tell-tale sign.'

I had just turned 40, and until this point I had never even had a mammogram. Now I was being told I had breast cancer."

My article in the @wsj about historical treatments of #breastcancer, and my own experience with the disease.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-medical-historian-confronts-breast-cancer-11669917623?st=47w2guxbp6b1rtf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&ns=prod/accounts-wsj

A Medical Historian Confronts Breast Cancer

After her diagnosis, a writer reflects on how the pain and suffering of generations of women helped lead to today’s medical advances.

The Wall Street Journal
Dr Helen WilliamsDec 2, 2022
jessica by the bayDec 2, 2022
I feel like we should have a service where a whole gaggle of trans women pick up newly out folks and take them for a whole day of shopping and we just take over every store and stare daggers at anyone being weird.
Dr Helen WilliamsNov 23, 2022
Market success! I had pain au chocolat , smoked salmon, and weisswurst for breakfast. Then grabbed some chocolate and cheese for later.
Dr Helen WilliamsNov 23, 2022
Neil GaimanNov 23, 2022
I've been photographing the night sky with my Pixel 6 Pro trying to find an eerie space where the ground and the sky meet...
Here are a few from last night.
Dr Helen WilliamsNov 23, 2022
Dr. Kacy TillmanNov 23, 2022
I sat by an election denier on the airplane and he started poking me in the arm to be emphatic about his views on people stealing ballots secretly and the airplane was full and I couldn’t move anywhere so I started explaining the yellow fever in very great detail, all the way down to telling him about the bloody vomit that looks like coffee grounds and it worked. He stopped talking to me. The moral of this story is you can’t out-weird an academic; our toolset is too vast. #vastearlyamerica
Show threadDr Helen WilliamsNov 23, 2022
@level98 thank you. I don't think I'll get the chance but will pass the recommendation on to my travel companion who doesn't have a conference dinner tomorrow like I do!
Show threadDr Helen WilliamsNov 23, 2022
@timrichards definitely. We'll try for tomorrow. I have been before but about 6 years back and it'll be a first for my travel companions.
Dr Helen WilliamsNov 22, 2022
In Melbourne for a conference. Had a lovely morning walk (even if we didn't realise the markets were closed today until we got there).
Show threadDr Helen WilliamsNov 14, 2022
@erinrileyau Sometimes my 5 y.o. asks what their weight is in kilometres.