Paediatrician, dad, numpty. Generally in reverse order. ADHD in every sense.
Podcast @extrabrainspod
May 15, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Ok, I've seen the episode, read the article, felt the outrage. Now I have thoughts.
(Personal view as ADHD clinician and parent and patient and @ADHDUKcharity trustee) 1. The profit motive always acts as a force of corruption in healthcare. However... 1/
That doesn't make a private diagnosis invalid. It just means that private providers have to be extra cautious to avoid cognitive bias. However... 2) the race to the bottom for assessment quality hurts everyone. If you can tick the boxes in 40 minutes, and charge the same 2/
May 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I appear to be accidentally watching #Eurovision.
Austria have already won it with a filthy disco track about being possessed by Edgar Allen Poe.
Downhill from here, lads.
Poland there, channeling the Venga Boys in every way
Mar 17, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Quick thread about children and Covid-19. Apologies if this strays a little from my direct expertise, but the (correct) focus on older people has left an information vacuum when it's come to children, and nonsense has rushed in to fill it...
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Prompted by this paper in Pediatrics: pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediat…, which gives us the best data so far on paediatric Covid infection.
Headlines: children have a much lower rate of critical illness and death than adults. This, from the imperial report yesterday. 2/n
Apr 25, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Under the concerns about children's screen time is often a narrative that is just flat wrong. That screen time is responsible for a kind of moral degeneration in young people, leading to mental health crisis, and delinquency.
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Screen time is associated with 0.4% of the variance in wellbeing, in this excellent @OrbenAmy and @ShuhBillSkee study. independent.co.uk/news/science/s….
That's as much as eating potatoes.
So yes, emotional health in adolescents is worse, but it ain't the iPhones,
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