Chris Emmerson
@cpemmerson
Consultant in Public Health, tobacco, vapes, health inequalities, Wales Posting personally
It is a great regret now to think of missed opportunities to make the most of tutorials, an incredible educational model On the other hand, they gave me and many others the skills to work effectively in the modern NHS
Adrian and I finally meet, we plan our national car insurance truth and reconciliation and verruca understanding month
Guardian's '100 Best Novels' list offering an unexpected way to interest teens in the works of Tolstoy
Mickey Thomas would fulfil this excellent criterion and also nod to the other UK nations
Is it using cross sectional data to advance tenuous casual claims? I hadn't noticed.
For several weeks early in training I thought it was this Ivan Ilych, which, as one of the great pieces of literature on dying is also something every public health person would get something out of
11pm train out of Waterloo after a great evening out, conductor congratulated us on being on a train on the 200th anniversary of the first passenger rail service You love to see it, you love to be it
Every time there's a reference to the American obsession with fact-checking, I remember this glorious para from the Guardian's Philip Roth obit
Not even the £25 cost of microchipping me, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally
Genuinely moved to get this final subscriber gift from @hiraethpod.bsky.social, still remembered, still enjoyed. Enjoying all the team still does, follow for essential Welsh history, culture and politics Ymlaen! @ceritheviking.bsky.social @hexter101.bsky.social @mimosacymru.bsky.social
And apparently we're just ignoring the fact that her partner went on TO BE PRIME MINISTER #deepstate
Happy birthday JS, and thanks for the chance to remember my pre-exam good luck ritual as a registrar Neither of us had a robust casual hypothesis, but we both got where we needed to be
Thinking about Barnes a lot this week and the grace he showed under that pressure for years. This was four years after that Maracana goal. Greatest sports photo of the 80s.
what do I think about AI in healthcare, Clive? she's a cruel mistress. she's, she's more than a mistress. She's a wife, she's a mother, she's a daughter, she's an errant child. she's… she can make you laugh, she make you cry. She can bring tears to me eyes. She can bring blood to me shoulders.
Finally - they may take our podcasts. But they can never take our merch.
... and somehow only this year found Keyes and Galea, which also brilliantly takes on the concept of shifting the curve and brings in causal architecture
When they shut down the physical library where I worked, I nabbed the Rose's book length version, which still repays reading...