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Celebrating longevity, tackling delicate questions. She/her. #TheBookAboutGettingOlder at Proud patron @AgeUKSomerset

South West, England

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

🥳🥳PAPERBACK out now!🥳❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘 and it looks amazing and has *READER REVIEWS* which are just gorgeous. It does actually help and I’m so happy 🥂😁🥂😁

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3 years

When we move to electronic records and I get cross about some little glitch I must try to remember this 😬😬😬

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Ok here’s the plan. This winter’s going to be 100% sh*t. There will also be snow, floods, a norovirus outbreak +/or other biblical event. So we must be 100% kind to our patients, carers, families, colleagues. Everyone will do their best.

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Lucy Pollock

4 years

Why is coming back into hospital a ‘re-admission’ in a young person and a ‘failed discharge’ in someone older? A new seizure, fever or even a fall in someone who was stable prior to discharge may not be a failure of care. Bad words lead to bad feelings 😟

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8 months

601 CT head scans. 5 bleeds, 4 of which predicted by high risk status. So 596 people no benefit from scan and many will have had unseen harm- a trip to ED, fear or pain in scanner, a hospital stay, ‘deconditioning’ aka ‘got worse in hospital’ - we need to change this!

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#GeriatricEmergencyMedicine Results from @UHSFT Post @NICEComms on #headinjury . Low rate of bleeding, bleeding associated with high risk injury +/- clinical signs, time to stop scanning? Can we therefore keep people at home? @GeriSoc @RCollEM @EuGMSSociety #EuGMS2023 #EuGMS

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QoL after CPR over 80s: thankyou to our patients and families who contributed, thankyou to the pmj for publishing and well done Ella Burden and Camilla Paget @dan26wales @DrLindaDykes @mancunianmedic @jamesgagg @NahidaBashir1

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3 years

A feature of geriatric medicine is that we need to know A LOT about our patient, in order (often) to do LESS #DoLessButBetter

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1 year

Going to have a rant. 82yo lady post hip fracture. No HF symptoms but someone does a BNP. 11000. Echo EF 19%. Cardio reg + HF nurse spiro, dapagliflozin and sorry while I compose myself ENTRESTO. Pt euvolaemic + asymptomatic. Read your own guidelines guys. I’m stopping them all.

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4 years

Isn’t it interesting how many people are ‘telling’ their older relatives what to do? How about asking them, discussing with them? Finding out their wishes hopes fears re isolation vs infection risk ...

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4 years

What is the word for the little piece of plastic apron that’s always left on the back of your neck ⁦ @mancunianmedic ⁩ ⁦ @DrLindaDykes ⁩?

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3 years

If you have family members over 80, please do not take away their ladders. Hold their ladders. @GeriSoc ❤️🐘❤️

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SaltyEM

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If you have family members over 80, take away their ladders.

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2 years

I do wish everybody knew that fluid restriction in heart failure was generally a waste of time and makes people miserable. 🙁

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

I’m sad when families get told we can’t diagnose dementia during an acute inpatient stay. That’s rubbish. A good history of what was happening before the acute event allows a confident diagnosis even when there’s other things like delirium.

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1 year

Say it again: here’s the NICE heart failure guidance, please don’t fluid restrict, it doesn’t help and it causes unhappiness 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬❤️🐘❤️😱❤️🐘❤️

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3 years

Actual gold!!!!!! I didn’t know and I am so so happy, thankyou dear ⁦ @sanditoksvig ⁩ ⁦ @MichaelJBooks ⁩ ⁦ @Taffyagent ⁩, this is THE BEST moment and I truly hope this book is going to help people getting older and those who love and care for them woooohooo

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2 years

Many frail older people are being rapidly discharged to interim placements eg hastily commissioned beds in care homes with limited therapy or social work input. And often distant from own 1ry care team.. what can hospital teams do to mitigate risks? @GeriSoc @adamgordon1978

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3 years

Oh I am very happy! Delighted that @GeriSoc has given this fab endorsement #TheBookAboutGettingOlder for patients, families, all of us. A tribute to a great specialty and those from whom I’ve learned @mancunianmedic @Trisha_the_doc @jupiterhouse1 and many more @MichaelJBooks

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2 years

Is ‘lockdown deconditioning’ a coded diagnosis yet? because it needs to be...

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Lucy Pollock

4 months

Just coming off a stupidly busy on call with the most fantastic team of young doctors. And some very dear senior colleagues who came to help despite fatigue, holidays, strikes and all that. Bloody amazing the lot of them.

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10 months

I’m not sure I can bear it that Hospital notes, hospital at home notes and GP notes are still all on different systems and that each cannot access the others. AWFUL for EVERYONE.

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

I’m bowled over. I’ll be talking to a heroine, the #fortunately indignant @janegarvey1 - it’s incredibly exciting (frankly terrifying) but so important. I hope I’ll do the right thing by older people and their friends, families and carers. 😳🤞❤️🐘🍾😁thankyou @BBCWomansHour

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BBC Woman's Hour

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'We need to talk about getting old', next wk @lucypgeridoc will be discussing what she's learnt as a geriatrician caring for older people. If you have a question or concern about getting old yourself or caring for an elderly relative, tweet or email us ➡️

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2 years

It really is madness. It makes patients sad and anxious. It wastes time, energy and precious planet’s resources. It’s unethical. We need to have a re-think.

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@lucypgeridoc from my father today- 84 yesterday and wouldn’t have cake as had been told he needed another Hba1C following last weeks abnormal one! He’s 84! Normal bmi and previously normal hba1c! Finally persuaded him he could have some birthday cake. We need to stop the madness @nkl_17

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

I do wonder how many people with a long term catheter are still taking tamsulosin 😬😬😬. Record breaker recently 2016 LTC. Still carefully alpha blockaded 5 years later 💔jeepers.

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2 years

Just finished what may be my last Christmas Day on Medical take (because it won’t come round again for a while). Bowled over by patients/ families -poignant sad funny brave - and staff born in this hospital or on the other side of the world ❤️🌍❤️🎄❤️🌍❤️🎄❤️🌍

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Loving #ButFirstADrink A QI project to improve hydration in older people in hospital . Just offer a drink, every one, every time you say hello @GeriSoc well done Nicole Vourliotis @DrSandyThomson please pass it on !

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Our youngest has gone to uni and I’m so happy for her but miss her with a passion and I learn that this is called DEVELOPMENTAL SADNESS which it may well be but I still feel SAD.

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Lucy Pollock

4 years

‘suitability to admit to hospital’ is being conflated with ‘suitability for ICU’. Many with moderate disease will need o2,abx, mx of comorbidities. They do need hospital if wanted and may benefit. Message that there’s no treatment for covid is WRONG.. @mancunianmedic @GeriSoc

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2 years

People waiting in hospital for care at home or elsewhere do not need weekly bloods. #DoLessButBetter 😡🥳

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4 years

Is excitement syncope a thing? Ready to read proof edition and my heart is hammering thankyou ⁦ @MichaelJBooks ⁩ I so want this to help us talk about the stuff that matters 😁❤️😁❤️

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1 year

The correct attitude

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Asthenia is a side effect of over 150 drugs in the BNF and almost no Drs know what asthenia means. Asthenia means **weakness**. That’s an important side effect. Be careful! thankyou @DrLindaDykes for all the #FOAMed

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3 years

Oh rats. Can’t think who Martin is or indeed what I am supposed to let him know. 😳

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This article is terrific. Patients and families, you need more power. Doctors, we MUST make time to listen, and respect people’s wishes. This happens all the time. It’s wrong. I’m so so angry. Thankyou @guardian - and @NICEComms please read

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Dad spent two of the last days of his life alone and distressed in A&E – for no good reason. This insanity must stop | Adrian Chiles

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4 years

Flowers missing from our patients bedside tables, due to no visitors. 60 posies made by friends and their children, jars alcohol wiped! Thank you so much, lots of smiles yesterday 💐😊❤️ @LoveMusgrove

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3 years

Oh goodness. In a real proper bookshop signing real proper books thank ⁦you ⁦ @ToppingsBath ⁩ thankyou ⁦ @MichaelJBooks ⁩ thankyou ⁦ @Taffyagent ⁩ ❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️

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Youngest returned to university on Friday. She said I’m going to miss you sooooo much and I turned to reciprocate but she was talking to the dog ❤️❤️❤️

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Lucy Pollock

2 months

👏👏 @markhoro on ‘the overmedicalisation of normal human emotion’. Some people need antidepressants. Lots don’t. And for many, very careful tapering is needed 👏👏

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Outdoor activities more efficacious than antipsychotics for treating physical aggression in people w dementia Comparative Efficacy of Interventions for Aggressive and Agitated Behaviors in Dementia: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis - PubMed ()

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Lucy Pollock

3 months

@FFAFrances Here’s a study we did about the experience of older survivors of CPR 👏Dr Ella Burden Dr Camilla Paget and 👏👏our patients and their families

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Quality of life after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation for patients over the age of 80...

AbstractObjectives. Success of in-hospital resuscitation decreases with age; however, national data show that 11.3% of patients over 80 years survive to di

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Lucy Pollock

4 years

Woooohoooo it’s real! I hope this book will help our patients and those who love them. #geriatricmedicine the most rewarding specialty @GeriSoc A huge thankyou to amazing Louise Ariel Clare @MichaelJBooks and magic @Taffyagent and my saintly colleagues and family ❤️😁❤️😁

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Penguin Michael Joseph

4 years

We are DELIGHTED to share that we'll be publishing @lucypgeridoc brilliant and insightful The Book About Getting Older this July! #DrLucy met a number of booksellers already this week and we're thrilled to share this book with you all over the coming months!

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Lucy Pollock

4 years

I have had it with VTE prophylaxis which allows no clinical nuance, and RCAs that only look at VTE, never at bleeds or other harm. Current practice (NHS standard contract) is dangerous 😡😡and risks harm to frail older medical inpatient. Thoughts @mancunianmedic @gerisoc ?

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Lucy Pollock

4 months

Our PAs do a different job, not a watered down version of a doctors job. And it’s really helpful. Thank you PAs.

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5 months

I’ve worked hard not to be drawn into the PA debate on Twitter, as it’s impossible to have nuanced reflection in limited space. However, as we come to end of the year, I reflect that without the PAs in our dept, service would have collapsed at times. Valued & valuable.

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2 months

Well I have had a *very* exciting afternoon - just walking into this building makes me grin 🥳🥳😁😁🥂🥂📚📚🥳🥳❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘and there was cake…

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Lucy Pollock

9 months

Really important. Treating high BP in older people admitted for non cardiovascular reasons (ie lots of people) causes them HARM. Stop it please. #NoStatAmlodipine

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This one is important

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Warning: when there’s a vaccine I’m going to be a mad hugger. No one will be safe.

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

When someone gets a proper palliative diagnosis (weeks/months to live), it would be very nice if our systems would *automatically* stop inviting them to eg Hypertension and diabetes reviews, AAA screening, metal on metal hip reviews ☹️ #DoLessButBetter 😊better things to do

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Look at this @RCPLondon and @acutemedicine toolkit for frail people in AMU, just fab ... @GERED_DOC and Dr Deborah Bertfield 👏👏❤️🐘❤️

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Lucy Pollock

1 year

Cardiologists focus on hearts, gastroenterologists on guts respiratory physicians on lungs. Geriatricians focus on…let me just check… the whole older person #TheCluesInTheName #BGSconf ❤️👏

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

🥳 our FOUR new geriatrician posts in Somerset are out! The right people can choose acute, community, a subspecialty, or a blend. And live in a beautiful place w fab patients and colleagues ❤️🐘❤️🐘 @NahidaBashir1 @morris_vikky 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Lucy Pollock

9 months

In completely crazy news, Giles my OH and Matt his mate may arrive in Dingle this Sat. And if they do, it looks as if this will be a new WORLD RECORD Atlantic west to east which is insane I had no idea I’m busting with pride anyway. 🤪🤪🥁🥁🤪🤪🥁🥁🤪🤪

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

‘If social care is weak the NHS doesn’t function’ 👏👏 @Mike_Padgham @BBCr4today SO MANY vulnerable people waiting in hospital (inc interim beds) for social care! It’s very wrong. Care in the right place costs miles less. @NHSEngland @sajidjavid @mancunianmedic

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Lucy Pollock

6 months

‘The concept of overdiagnosis should be taught from an early stage’ 👏👏I watch young doctors learning a new form of medicine - investigate everything, treat everything, merciless activity. They see it as normal now. Reset needed! Centre care round human values.

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Ash Paul

6 months

Overdiagnosis and too much medicine in a world of crises via @degampraesident et al

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

please don’t fluid restrict in heart failure. Makes life miserable and doesn’t help. If drinking gallons have a chat. Low Na in overload comes up with loop; fluid restriction not usually helpful 😞😞

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Lucy Pollock

5 months

Sometimes I think geriatricians are like Ginger Rogers, doing the whole dance backwards, in heels. You have to know all the things you could do for your patient - and work out (together!) when not to do them ❤️🐘❤️ @gerisoc @JKDhesi proud of our colleagues #BGSconf have fun!

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Lucy Pollock

1 year

This tweet got some attention and here’s what I learned. 1. There’s no evidence for treating asymptomatic heart failure. But we all knew that…2. If you want to treat it despite the lack of evidence (as you know the HF meds help some symptomatic people) you MUST find out…

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Lucy Pollock

1 year

Going to have a rant. 82yo lady post hip fracture. No HF symptoms but someone does a BNP. 11000. Echo EF 19%. Cardio reg + HF nurse spiro, dapagliflozin and sorry while I compose myself ENTRESTO. Pt euvolaemic + asymptomatic. Read your own guidelines guys. I’m stopping them all.

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

I know it’s absolutely none of my business but I think lots of us are hoping #PrincePhilip gets to make a careful kind plan that reflects his hopes and wishes. Maybe even see a geriatrician? ❤️🐘❤️

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Thinking about publication day this Thursday. And about being on call tomorrow, and the extra wards that will be open since last week, and the people in them. And kids and parents and school/no school. And makers of vaccines and teamwork. Solidarity and courage ❤️❤️❤️

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Here’s a special thing. We think this week’s PACES @RCPhysicians exam @GSTTnhs may have been the first ever with a majority of female examiners? Huge well done to @danfurmedge and his fab team. Brilliantly organised, kind patients, brave candidates 👏👏👏👏

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Lucy Pollock

1 year

Hello all. Any good examples of #SocialPrescribing involving #OlderPeople please? Bet it works but would love examples/evaluations. Calling all link workers, village agents @CoxonGeorge @ShaziaDin2 @jupiterhouse1 @gerisoc @DebGompertz @drpoco @drshibley @Trisha_the_doc thankyou

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Lucy Pollock

2 months

We need to focus some education towards doctors who find it hard to listen to families advocating for those with end stage dementia. There are nuances but on the whole families speak wise words and need to be respected

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Life in the slow lane

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My Dad is in a care home dying of end-stage dementia and the GP keeps wanting to admit him to an ED corridor as his pulse is 40. I told him to stop the beta blocker. Dad is singing in his room and happy. GP doesn't get it. Very distressing.

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Lucy Pollock

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Here’s our draft advice for patients and families. All suggestions welcome ⁦ @GeriSoc ⁩ ⁦ @jupiterhouse1 ⁩ ⁦ @Trisha_the_doc ⁩ ⁦ @mancunianmedic ⁩ ⁦ @CoxonGeorge ⁩

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Oh goodness this is sooooo beautiful I mean the logo’s making me breathless obv but also the lovely reader reviews. Oh wow 🥳🥰❤️🐘❤️thank you @MichaelJBooks @Taffyagent for backing 🐘🐘- and the people I don’t know who wrote these things 🙏🙏

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Lucy Pollock

28 days

Washing all dry, but have to say it was a tough shift for the pegs..

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

The thing is, I can hardly bear that frail older people, often w dementia, are subjected ALL THE Te to ‘routine’ ‘pathway’ ‘bundle’ ‘standard care’ treatments and tests that do not help and inadvertently cause suffering. How do we stop this? It’s not good care 😬😬

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

@timricketts_ Older people w covid in hospital are often sure they’re going to die. 4/5 don’t but stay in a long time. So if you think they’re going to get better do say so. It’s so frightening and lonely.

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Fab letter by @muirgray - we don’t want to live forever but we do want to live healthy independent lives. And we can share the knowledge on how to do that, for free, as individuals and as a society ❤️👏❤️🐘❤️

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Here’s the future! our visit to rural complex care GP team today. Guess which is the hospital doctor! Ella and I learned tons thank you @DebGompertz - what a network of people who know how to get things done 👏👏 @GeriSoc @jupiterhouse1

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Lucy Pollock

9 months

They’ll be here in the next hour or so. Can’t promise to post anything as will be in pieces 👏👏🚣🏻‍♀️🚣🏻‍♀️👏👏thank you all for the amazing kindness and good wishes helping them fly along ❤️❤️❤️

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Lucy Pollock

10 months

In other news, today an orthopaedic colleague said ‘ No that patient definitely should not be under medicine. We’ll take him’ ❤️❤️❤️🥳🥳🥳🤪🤪❤️❤️❤️my life is perfect now

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Lucy Pollock

1 year

👏👏it’s about explaining ‘worth’- it’s not that the patient isn’t worth the treatment. It’s that the treatment isn’t worth taking.

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British Geriatrics Society

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"The word #deprescribing can have negative connotations. They think that the health system is giving up on them or cost-cutting. Instead, explain to the person that it is about gradually reducing the dose of a medication or a trial without a medication."

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

I’m aware you may know about this already 😊but Happy New Year dear twitter. I’ve learned so much this year and met good people. Soldier on, it’s all going to get better in the end 🤞❤️🐘❤️

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I got in a strop about these new mask towers + wrote rude emails. In fact they’ve been tested. They work. I just need to slow down. Put my stuff on the table provided. Gel. Take mask carefully. Gel. Pick up stuff. Have a little Zen moment each morning. Sorry, IP&C team. 😳🙏

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Lucy Pollock

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Fab article. Good care costs less than bad care. Get it right for older people and everyone benefits 👏👏👏

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Adam Gordon

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Whether from a position of strength or weakness, geriatric medicine has work to do to drive up standards in health care of older people @Age_and_Ageing @gerisoc @JKDhesi @RowanHarwood @SarahMistryBGS @finbarr45452612

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

My lovely husband has decided to row the Atlantic next year. Preparation so far has been a good lunch in London and a hernia repair. I’ll keep you posted 😳🌊🛶

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Interesting! Yellow card if you see this! Treatment with the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) apixaban and rivaroxaban associated with significant worsening of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) | BMJ Case Reports

Treatment with the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) apixaban and rivaroxaban associated with...

We report the cases of two patients who developed worsening behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), coinciding with starting the factor Xa inhibitor direct oral anticoagulant...

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Goodbye to Julie Jones, best ever manager. Wise, funny, kind, worked her socks off and got a lot done. Miss her already. Bums. Have fun Julie.

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Lucy Pollock

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This is EXCITING on a winter day: on Fri 11 Feb I'll be talking funny serious important stuff - with tea and questions - for Age UK Somerset. Please RT dear twitter as I'd dearly like a sellout for a fab charity. Bring grandad/bf etc for a happy afternoon

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Lucy Pollock

1 year

Super article and a cry for joint working between geriatricians + cardiologists ‘the rise in cTn is specific to myocardial suffering, whether ischemic or not’ ❤️👏❤️ @GeriSoc @Age_and_Ageing

Myocardial infarction in the very old | British Geriatrics Society

It is a fact - at least in France - that patients with a myocardial infarction (MI) are referred to cardiologists as a priority. Of course, this makes sense when cardiovascular expertise is the

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Never promise I won’t put you in a home. Or if you do, please don’t feel guilty when you get to a stage where that needs to happen, because in certain situations it’s just not possible to keep someone at home. And a good care home lifts the burden kindly and expertly

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Rasika Wijerathne, MD

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2 years

@parkinsonsdis @Trisha_the_doc @drkathrynmannix It is good to discuss care home placement, KEEPING IN MIND that there might be a day you cannot care for them at home even with supports. I see families who promised to not place the loved one in care home struggle with guilt when it has becomeimpossible to care for them at home

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Loved talking about #TheBookAboutGettingOlder on fab @BBCRadio2 this morning. Positive vibes radiating in all directions. Happy days 💃🕺🏻😁❤️🐘❤️🐘thank you @jasonmohammad and @revkatebottley 🐝🐝🐝

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Jason Mohammad

3 years

Morning all! It’s all happening @BBCRadio2 this morning! Whatever you do - keep on moving! Having the best time with @revkatebottley @becomingrebecca and the team! Have a great Sunday ♥️ #bbcsounds

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

@noodles_nood Ask your ENT colleagues . I get this, it’s horrible and over a weekend lovely ENT teams have the solution. If otitis externa, abx drops w steroid work near instant magic 🤞🤞

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Lucy Pollock

5 years

Open discussion w medical students about racism is a v good start. Giving people a list of suitable responses may help. Like ‘the nhs I work for does not allow such language. I’m sorry we are therefore unable to treat you’ .

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Emily Henderson

5 years

‘Can I have a white doctor?’ The answer is simply ‘No, you bloody well cannot’. You can have a doctor. A surgeon. And that is the only defining feature you need to know. 1/2

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

I’ve had a lovely day thanks to friends, colleagues known and unknown, family, the best editor, publishers and agent ... and many many strangers. I think this book will help older people and those who love them. In it together ❤️🐘❤️

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Ella Watkins

3 years

Happy Publication Day to this special book and author @lucypgeridoc is so full of wisdom and helpful advice and does it all with such warmth. #TheBookAboutGettingOlder will help a lot of people 🐘

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Watch this space! Somerset Hospital @Home roles coming soon 🌳🐣💐❤️🐘❤️all the best bits of medicine in one lovely place. It’s going to be an amazing team! We need GPs, geriatricians, ACPs, therapists, pharmacists (Hereford’s nice too if you must.)dm for deets!

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Dr Linda Dykes @[email protected]

2 years

@lucypgeridoc Y’know with a bit of thought we could make a directory of jobs at various levels where people can enjoy some Geris work. I meet so many frazzled Med Regs & think “you need to decompress in a community role for a bit” - and great for developing autonomy whilst still supported.

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

First run in ages. Muddy? Yes. Slow? Yes. Short? Very! Worth it? Absolutely every time 😊

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

Vaccine is like a Glastonbury ticket. Limited supply, high demand and even if you’ve got one the party doesn’t start for a while yet #nowwashyourhands

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

This team’s amazing. Day one of our cohort ward and Manjula, Becca and colleagues calmly made a molehill out of a mountain ❤️👏 #teamportman ⁦ @TaraFleming84 ⁩⁦ @NahidaBashir1 ⁩ 😁😁

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

I absolutely love geriatric medicine SpRs ❤️🥳🥂🍰🐘❤️

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Lucy Pollock

1 year

I’ve had this little fern since I was a medical student more than 30 years ago and every winter it looks dead and every February it does this and I love it

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

This makes for a very contented Sunday evening! Just delighted to have that message from someone I really admire. In fact, kind messages from my most admired gerimed colleagues both senior + junior has been an unexpected bonus.Thank you

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Kenneth Rockwood

3 years

I’m reading ⁦ @lucypgeridoc ⁩ Excellent. Thought-provoking, compassionate. Funny: check her daughter’s reaction to having the urethra explained (to be fair, for a quiz; she’d asked). In geriatrics we must discuss attitudes, not just knowledge. A great guide to how to do that.

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Lucy Pollock

10 months

Living the dream

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Indeed. Lessons I’ve learned 1) bilateral cellulitis ‘doesn’t exist’ 2) it’ll be varicose eczema and needs steroid and good emollient (not aqueous) 3)Crusting? It’s eczema. Blisters? Maybe cellulitis. 4) there’s more oedema than you think. 5) stop the CCB

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Martin Vernon

2 years

Clinicians beware Bilateral red legs often has a non-infective cause 31% of patients admitted from emergency department are wrongly diagnosed with lower-limb cellulitis 85% of these have avoidable hospital admission 92% receive unnecessary antibiotics

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Lucy Pollock

2 years

Hold tight. We’re all in for a very bumpy ride. The chaos and pressure in the system is real, and patients and families suffer. Better communication won’t fix everything but it helps ❤️

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Lucy Pollock

9 months

They have no idea how many people have watched that tracker and cheered them on . Thank you so much all and for the kind messages and donations to their terrific charities. Nearly here ❤️🚣🏻‍♀️❤️🚣🏻‍♀️❤️

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3 years

Made a den like a 4yo and started recording the audio book ⁦⁦...OK it’s not Abbey Road and I’m no Beyoncé but ‘recording studio’ is not in my daily vocabulary so I’m hopelessly overexcited😁😁😁thankyou ⁦ @MichaelJBooks ⁩ ⁦ @Taffyagent ⁩

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Lucy Pollock

3 years

My son teases me: gerries is not so much ‘life and death’ as ‘death and death’. Wrong, my dear son. All about life. Every geriatrician should have a copy of this @drohanlon ❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️

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Lucy Pollock

5 years

Full text now available free, and thanks for all the RTs and comments

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Lucy Pollock

7 months

@jfdwolff @dochormone @jmwoods87 @MedicJamesM @acutemedicine @hormone_doc They’ll get swapped to an H2RA eg famotidine. Which we stopped using ages ago because they are a) less good and b) can cause CONFUSION esp in frail older people. But everyone’s forgotten that! Plus v expensive vs ppi. 😬😬😬

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