Rhea Liang @LiangRhea Twitter profile

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

2 months

A tradie, at my house for a repair, kept staring at me. I had all my wits about me in case he did anything untoward (unfortunately the way these days 😬). But after 45 mins of utter awkwardness he finally blurts out 'Um- I think you took out my appendix'. 🤣 #ILookLikeASurgeon 🔪

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2 years

Still thinking about the recent meeting where a man gave me his coffee order, which I placed, before taking my place as meeting chair and watching his whole face change 🤣. Avoiding embarrassment is an excellent reason to examine #UnconsciousBias 😉

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@LiangRhea

3 years

For whoever needs it, this little gem from Miss 11- 'The teacher said I seemed quiet today... like I wasn't blooming. I said I'm fine Miss X. I'm just working on growing roots today instead of flowers'.❤ Hugs to everyone who is having a 'roots not flowers' day ❤🌱.

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@LiangRhea

3 years

My nose aches from masking and I'm on call until Monday morning, but in my office I can take my mask off briefly to wish you the happiest of New Years, in whatever form it takes. #Its2022 🎉🎉🎉

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@LiangRhea

3 years

👵🏻 'Nothing against you, you're a lovely doctor. But I want the *surgeon* to do my operation.' - I introduced myself as the surgeon - wear a nametag saying I'm a surgeon - completed the consent signing my name under 'Surgeon'. #GenderBias is remarkably stubborn. 😑😑😑

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@LiangRhea

2 years

I never thought it would be other doctors I'd have to protect my patients from. I make no apology for demanding masks in my theatre and around my immunocompromised patients. I don't care if you make fun of my mama bear ways. I prefer to avoid preventable morbidity and mortality.

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Invited presenter at a small surgical meeting- 'The knitting lady isn't paying attention'. 1. I'm a surgeon 2. It's #crochet , not knitting 3. I haven't taken my eyes off you. Why don't you pick on the guy next to me playing on his phone? #ImplicitBias #ILookLikeASurgeon

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@LiangRhea

6 years

Gave feedback to a junior doctor. The reply? 'In my culture, women do not speak to me like that'. 😮 Mate, #WelcomeToAustralia where I fear you will struggle in your medical career. #ILookLikeASurgeon #WomenInMedicine

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Today a patient made jokes about not shaking my hand because of #coronavirus . In front of my team. I have not left Australia. This is not sensible public health precautions. This is #racism .

Dr. Nadia Alam (she/her)

@DocSchmadia

5 years

Today my son was cornered at school by kids who wanted to “test” him for #Coronavirus just because he is half-Chinese. They chased him. Scared him. And made him cry. I was the same age when I was bullied for being Pakistani. It’s 2020. I thought things had changed by now... 💔

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Just when I think the teenager couldn't get any more objectionable, I discover the reason he's been shouting unintelligibly in his room. He's made a list of elderly (and somewhat deaf) relatives and is ringing to check on them daily. Oh my heart. #TheKidsAreAlright #COVID19

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@LiangRhea

3 years

Two trainee checkout operators at the supermarket today, due to other staff quarantining for the new local #COVID19 cases. The lady behind me snarled at them to hurry up. I spoke up in their defence and got 'well you're the reason COVID is IN this country'😳 #BeKind #NoToRacism

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@LiangRhea

2 years

I'm a 4th gen doctor. This meant I went to good schools, socialised with other doctor's kids- many of whom also wanted to become doctors and shared tips and resources about medical school entry- and already knew many lecturers when I got in. It's *not* a level playing field. 1/2

Basit Mahmood

@BasitMahmood91

2 years

You’re 24x more likely to become a doctor if your parents were doctors, compared to those whose parents did any other type of work. Similarly, you’re 17x more likely to become a lawyer if your parents are lawyers. Here’s how it varies among the elite professions.

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@LiangRhea

9 months

Lisa is alive and safe. Thank you everyone for swift networking and support. For those criticising her using social media in this way- please consider why someone might not use local networks that clearly feel unsafe. Twitter community, you can be proud of yourselves. 🙏❤️

Lisa Banh

@DrLisaBanh

9 months

I dedicated my best years to my current hospital, only to be abused beyond anything I could ever imagine. They have pushed me to the point where I now plan to take my own life. I am exhausted, I am done. This pattern of discrimination and abuse stops with me.

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@LiangRhea

2 years

@Harrii_W If you can find the domestic, ask if you can write them a reference. I did this for one of the cleaners and it helped get them a supervisory role. Good deeds deserve reward.🤗

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@LiangRhea

5 years

I broke the news to a #breastcancer patient that she was now in terminal stage. 'Doctor will you be alright? I wouldn't do your job for anything.' She's the one with terminal cancer and she's concerned about *my* #wellbeing . 😭😭😭 we don't deserve our patients.

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@LiangRhea

5 years

So I'm on my Twitter during a break, having a quiet cry about a baby that can't be airlifted and a pharmacist still working despite losing his home in #AustraliaBushfires , and someone in the workplace asks me if I'm on my period. You git. #GenderHarassment #OperateWithRespect 😭

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@LiangRhea

8 months

Do we still need to discuss Australia/Invasion Day since we voted No to the Indigenous Voice? Well, for as long as doctors think it acceptable to communicate with colleagues like this👇... YES, yes we do. #NoToRacism 🙅🏻‍♀️ #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe 🖤💛❤️

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@LiangRhea

3 years

For once, can we please centre the Tongan people in our responses to this event. The history of unwanted/unhelpful colonialist 'charity' in response to disasters is long and sordid. Tongans, please tell us what will be useful. There's a large Twitter community who will listen.💗

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@LiangRhea

3 years

As if a pandemic isn't enough to cope with- the Great Bi-Annual Bewilderment is nearly upon us. 😳

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@LiangRhea

3 years

I dislike the narrative that people die of #COVID19 at home because of 'culture'. People are dying at home because social inequity and long-standing barriers to healthcare access are now exacerbated by poor communication and slow vaccination rollout. #NoToRacism 🙅🏻‍♀️

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@LiangRhea

2 years

Made it! 96 hours on call, post-take ward round done, a few patients still walking the fine line between operative and non-operative management. But there's a great team on-site and I'm off to blob out for the rest of Boxing Day.

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@LiangRhea

3 years

6 weeks since my appendix tried to kill me, including an inter-hospital transfer on inotropes, I have learned some hard truths about serious illness that will inform my practice going forward. A thread. 1/13

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@LiangRhea

2 months

@Researchfromtx I did!

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@LiangRhea

2 years

I was a pedestrian at an intersection when a low speed MVA occurred. I popped my head into the nearest car to see if they needed assistance and was promptly pushed sideways by the man behind me- 'please let me through, I'm a medical student'. Oh. OK buddy. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #ILookLikeASurgeon

Lexie Mannix, MD

@ALMannixMD

2 years

My friends story: She met a guy at a bar. Told him she is an EM Doc (he asked). He didn’t believe her, so asked for Tx for MRSA. She offered oral abx based on resistance in her area. He told her she was wrong, bc Vanc is the only option. He’s an MS 1 She’s an EM attending

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@LiangRhea

3 years

While we were still grappling with the news that our firstborn was hearing impaired, the specialist suggested early music studies to help him with speech pitch discrimination. Behold- Mr 16 preparing for his diploma, despite trouble hearing dynamics. My heart is bursting.😢💓

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@LiangRhea

9 months

I feel quite emotional watching this. I never thought I'd see a haka led from the Parliamentary floor in my lifetime. And by a woman, and aged just 21 at that. *She's* not swearing allegiance to a faraway king. Ka mau, ka mau. 👊🏽 #ProudKiwi .

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@LiangRhea

2 years

Shout out to everyone who is also working the public holiday! ❤️

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@LiangRhea

3 years

<phone rings> Me: hello, Rhea speaking Them: hi, I'm looking for Dr Liang the surgeon Me: that's me Them: oh are you one of his registrars? Me: no, Dr Liang is me. I am Dr Liang the surgeon. <hang up tone> Fine, *don't* speak to me then. 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️ #GenderBias #ILookLikeASurgeon

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@LiangRhea

10 months

This is impossible even in peacetime, in highly resourced areas, with power and water and sufficient trained staff. We plan for hours to get one critical patient two floors down for a scan and they want to send all these people six KILOMETRES? This is medically indefensible. 😠

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@AJEnglish

10 months

BREAKING: Israeli forces have given doctors, patients and forcibly displaced people at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza one hour to evacuate the compound

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@LiangRhea

4 months

I certainly wasn't expecting a *GP* to blame infanticide on a man being 'goaded'. 😱 I hope 2024 will cause us to deeply examine how such views come to be held by medical colleagues. 👀

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@LiangRhea

2 years

It's...possible the reg and I accidentally swapped gowns. 😳🤣 #ILookLikeASurgeon

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@LiangRhea

2 years

At the hospital where I'm teaching today, this is on the toilet doors. I'm told it's because a doctor died by suicide in the toilets and wasn't discovered for 12 hours.💔 Check in on your colleagues. It's not an easy time for anyone right now 😥. @MH4Docs

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@LiangRhea

3 years

A family of 6 were hauled over the side of one of the last boats, already dangerously overcrowded, leaving Shanghai to Hong Kong during as Communist rule was declared in 1949. The youngest infant girl had a flail chest from being crushed in the stampede. 1/4

Marcus Weisgerber

@MarcusReports

3 years

JUST IN: "The Crew made the decision to go" — Inside RCH 871, which saved 640 from the Taliban ... from @TaraCopp and me

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@LiangRhea

3 years

Postscript- some years later in the 1970s, my father, a newly qualified paediatrician immigrating to New Zealand under an exchange scheme, was able to find the now very elderly surgeon Dr Graham Milne to thank him for saving my aunt's life. 😍🙏 4/4

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Advice to young docs when calling the on call surgeon. We expect to be called. You can skip 'how is your day?' or 'is this a good time?' or 'I'm really sorry to bother you but...' If I answer the phone- just talk. And *especially* don't say 'sorry did I wake you?' at 3pm.😳

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@LiangRhea

3 years

So I kept Mr 17, the sickly asthmatic hearing impaired one, safe for two years including most of the QLD Omicron wave- and after TEN DAYS at uni in Sydney he is #COVID19 positive. 🤨

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@LiangRhea

5 years

I have just decreased the rents on the properties I own by 20% for the immediate term and encourage all other landlords to do the same. #StayHome can't work without a home. Our government might not have a heart, but *we* can. We're all in this together. #COVID19

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@LiangRhea

4 years

Goodness.😳 Answered the registrar's phone and thought I gave some sensible advice, but got a tetchy 'you don't seem to understand the issue; I want to talk to your consultant'. That would be me. How can I help? (A brief silence ensued) #ILookLikeASurgeon #OperateWithRespect

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@LiangRhea

1 year

Doctors arguing that only medical doctors should be called Dr in healthcare settings ‘because patient confusion’ should consider that nurses are still called Sister in many places and no-one confuses them for their sisters.

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@LiangRhea

2 years

@AshaRaoRMIT My mother used to say 'best response to bad manners is a conspicuous show of good manners' 👍

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@LiangRhea

2 years

The indomitable Suzanne Ma, bariatric surgeon, with her 2 week old, ready for her talk at #ASSC2022 . I am all in admiration. #ILookLikeASurgeon 👊🤱🏻❤

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@LiangRhea

4 years

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@LiangRhea

3 years

I'm watching us go from near-zero #COVID19 to full Omicron wave up close, and I can say with absolute certainty- unvaccinated are DEFINITELY much sicker. If you're unvaccinated and have no contraindications, PLEASE get vaccinated🙏. It's heartbreaking to see people so sick. 😥💔

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@LiangRhea

2 years

Sociologists might call it Bourdeusian cultural capital, intergenerational transmission, class reproduction, whatever. But unless we start *actively* levelling the field, we're not actually going to select the best students to study medicine- just the best connected. 2/2

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@LiangRhea

3 years

This is why the events in Afghanistan feel so personal. This is the story of my family, and of many, many families. When you look at that photo, don't see refugees. See *people* who will repay the kindness of any country that accepts them, many times over. 3/4

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@LiangRhea

4 years

I have a trifecta! 3. Fits without alteration 2. Machine-washable 1. It has POCKETS 😍😍😍

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@LiangRhea

2 years

@muminprogress This is astonishing. The traditional dance requires a huge amount of precision, as eye movements and finger positions have significance. Then to fuse it with a different genre in such a skilful way is 🤯 and they TOTALLY smashed it. ❤️❤️❤️

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@LiangRhea

8 months

(Letter has been passed on to relevant bodies for further action)

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@LiangRhea

4 months

Just imagine- a man murders YOUR TODDLER and you have to watch his boss go on about what a wonderful man the murderer was. And the boss is a Clinical Excellence executive of the state health service. Very. NOT. Clinically. Excellent.😱 #DomesticViolence #WorkplaceCulture

Kate Fitz-Gibbon

@Kate_FitzGibbon

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This is absolutely abhorrent. How deep our cultural denial runs that a man who murdered his son can be referred to this way. A NSW Health executive has today sent an all-staff email in which he praised a Lismore father who killed himself & his two-yr-old-son as a “wonderful

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@LiangRhea

2 years

Oh my goodness the @wallabies singing the Australian national anthem in Yugambeh before English! I never thought I would see that happen. 🖤💛❤

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@LiangRhea

3 years

When you're really unwell, every movement is an impossible effort, even opening one's eyes. But other senses still work. I was grateful for the voice in my ear giving me updates or warning of a painful procedure. Please keep doing this, even for 'unconscious' patients. 5/13

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@LiangRhea

3 years

RIP Dr Luqman Jubair, one of our own on the Gold Coast. You dedicated your work and your life to saving others, and we will not forget. 💔💔💔

'A real hero': Tributes for 'incredibly brave' doctor who died trying to rescue swimmer on Gold...

Police say 35 year-old Luqman Jubair went into the water at Miami on Thursday night to help someone in trouble.

www.abc.net.au

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@LiangRhea

3 years

That girl was cared for by a NZ missionary surgeon on board who essentially 'bag masked' her with his own lungs 24/7. She survived. She's now my aunt, a cardiologist. Her siblings became a paediatrician (my father), a nuclear physicist, and an art history professor. 2/4

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Theatre person: Stop! You can't go in. We are waiting for the surgeon to mark the patient. Me: ... Them: ... Me: <pulls out marking pen> Them: oh god.😱. You're the surgeon. <apology follows> We're good mate. It's better than the ones who double down! 🤣 #ILookLikeASurgeon

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@LiangRhea

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The phone rang, I answered, the caller hung up. The phone rang again, it was hospital switchboard. 'I'm putting this person back to you. They insist on speaking to the surgeon, not the secretary. I've told them you ARE the surgeon'. 🙏amazing switch person. #ILookLikeASurgeon

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@LiangRhea

2 months

@karavas_alex He did a lovely job on the repair though!

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@LiangRhea

4 years

MIL, late 70s, gorgeously plump, chatting with best friend in Mandarin at the local supermarket. Man in a singlet walks up and growls 'Speak English!' MIL without missing a beat replies 'You want English, ok. YOU'RE DISGUSTING.' 🤣🤣🤣 Me, behind the zucchinis-

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@LiangRhea

3 years

After a somewhat surreal discussion with a friend who believed the #COVID19 vaccination infertility conspiracy and now finds herself in an unexpected situation... PSA- COVID VACCINATION IS NOT BIRTH CONTROL.

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@LiangRhea

2 years

Can we *please* get rid of battle language and the idea that people 'lose' to cancer. Olivia's death is not because she 'stopped fighting' or 'let down her guard'. She is not a 'loser'. She was not 'beaten' by #BreastCancer . Olivia, shining light, was none of those things.💫 1/3

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@LiangRhea

5 years

History tells us there will be a baby boom in approximately 9 months. What shall we call them? Covidians? Coronials?

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@LiangRhea

2 years

This is one of the Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) that final year medical students in the UK sit. It is worth 50% of their mark. And I can confidently say it is RUBBISH. What is this appalling #presenteeism and frank workplace #bullying ? 🤨 Sort it out, @gmcuk . 👎 #MedEd

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@LiangRhea

3 years

Happy #TutuTuesday 22/2/22 from Australia! I love that it's about breaking stereotypes. To the people who said 'you don't have the strength or stamina for surgery'- I've been doing this since I was 12 and I'm glad I never accepted your #GenderBias . 🙅🏻‍♀️👎 #ILookLikeASurgeon !😷🎉

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@gradydoctor

3 years

For anybody who thinks I am not really about to wear a tutu on 2/22/22 for a full day that includes in-person teaching at Grady AND a visiting professorship with @UChicagoMed , you are VERY wrong. Very. I welcome any and all to join me in #TutuTuesday . Let's GO! #sheready

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@LiangRhea

3 years

Well, this wasn't in the plan tonight. 😑

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@LiangRhea

5 months

As the weather cools Miss 14 pulls the school uniform girl's long pants out... and puts them back. Me: Why not pants? She: well... other kids say pants are trans and then they don't talk to you all day. Thanks haters. Now even teen girls can't wear pants. Such 'feminism'.🤦🏻‍♀️

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@LiangRhea

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Despite telling him I had isolated the fault, the aircon man said I would have to replace the whole console and cable. Quote: $1355 😱 I ignored him, ordered the part online ($11) and fixed it myself. How many other customers have been ripped off though? 😱

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@LiangRhea

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@TharushaGunawa4 @DrLindaDykes The more I watch this the more I see. Total strangers applauding. Little kids in stormtrooper and princess costumes *not* self-combusting or whatever it is that intolerants think will happen if they see love like this. It's wonderful. 🥹❤️

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@LiangRhea

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Just saying- as a doctor providing cancer care- that being dignified, perfect, remarkable or selfless is NOT required. Kate could be a dishevelled wreck and still be deserving of all our care, compassion, and privacy. Can we lay off these unhelpful heroic narratives please? 🙏❤️

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@LiangRhea

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Can't believe it was #IWD2023 just yesterday. YESTERDAY. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ Whenever anyone claims misogyny doesn't exist I'll just wave vaguely at this.

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@LiangRhea

14 days

Explainer for non-Australians. The Liberal Party- which despite the name is the Australian GOP- accidentally missed the deadline to enter >130 candidates for local elections. So, electorates are getting an unexpected diversity boost, and it's delicious. 🤣❤️ 🗳 #DemocracySausage

Batshit Australia

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Incredible scenes

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@LiangRhea

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Dear #BreastCancer survivors who have had axillary procedures- it is SAFE to have blood taken, and blood pressure measurements done, on that arm. It does not increase lymphoedema and it makes me cranky to see pts scared unnecessarily into painful leg/foot procedures. 1/2

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Left: my aunt, 1970s Hong Kong. Right: me, now, Australia. The fabric is amazing, the colours so vibrant- it could have been sewn yesterday. I LOVE conserving my family’s traditional textiles. 🤗❤️

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Doctors hugging patients- yes or no?

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1 year

Princess Anne doing the quickest of quick changes to leap on a horse and ride alongside the carriage as a defender of her brother seems much more heroic than all that other sovereign-ly stuff that just happened, just saying. No cushy carriage for her! ⚔️💪

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@LiangRhea

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Nothing was heard for hours. The poor man fell asleep next to his phone. In actual fact I'd been cleared via rapid test within an hour, but he didn't get a phone call until the next morning. Staff had assumed I would tell him. We need to do better at keeping family informed. 4/13

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A young doctor started presenting a patient case nervously to me with ‘Mrs X… ah, I forget the age, sorry, but middle aged… presents with abdominal pain…’ I glanced at the computer record. Mrs X is 37. THIRTY SEVEN. 🤣😂🤣 #MiddleAged

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Still dying at a story @mrsrey1988 told yesterday.. One of the new F1s said they didn't check a pregnancy test in a 42 y/o female with abdominal pain because she seemed quite old to still be having sex 🤣😭😭😭

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@LiangRhea

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Have you considered the person excusing domestic violence requiring court appearance and a 12 month apprehended violence order as a 'one off eruption of emotion' is the reason AN INNOCENT TODDLER 💔 is the 36th death from #DomesticViolence so far in Australia this year?

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Boo👎👎👎 to whoever stole all the visor masks from the hospital. 😠 My wee Chinese nose hasn't got room for glasses *and* goggles so I have to tape the goggles to my forehead. A minor inconvenience, but seriously- STOP STEALING HOSPITAL SUPPLIES!! #COVID19

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@LiangRhea

3 years

One manky appendix removed. First cup of tea tastes like heaven. And source control is very effective!

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@LiangRhea

3 years

Well, this wasn't in the plan tonight. 😑

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2 years

'Do you bleed onto the sheets at night? Can you leave the house when you have a period? Will you wear white during a period?' Prof Beverley Vollenhoven AM unafraid to ask the questions when assessing heavy bleeding in perimenopause. #AMS22

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@LiangRhea

5 years

Wait- a single GP is irresponsible for seeing 70 patients, but an entire contingent from Lombardy is here for an event that attracts thousands and it's all rainbows and unicorns? I thought we were trying to *prevent* a pandemic, not laying out the welcome mat! #COVID19 #AusGP

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@LiangRhea

1 year

GP IS A SPECIALTY GP IS A SPECIALTY GP IS A SPECIALTY Same length of training, same training structures, same model of specialist college, same two-tier general and specialist registration with AHPRA. It's just rank arrogance for any layperson to think they 'could be a GP'. 🤨

Dr. Helen Wall

@DrHelenWall

1 year

My teenage goddaughter who is hoping to be a doctor asked why I never wanted to specialise or was it that I couldn’t so I became a GP? I’m a GP by choice. GPs are specialists in risk management and communication. I’m privileged to share in so many peoples lives. #teamGP ❤️

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

4 years

Best Zoom meeting opener ever. The Chair is tucked up in bed, complete with beanie. 'I'm in Christchurch, it's f*cking freezing, you Aussies always want to start at 7, I'm going to bed after this. Ok let's start'. 🤣❄

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

3 years

So, having been on call all weekend, can I please remind all doctors that we treat WHOLE HUMANS and not just their scan(s)? A normal scan does *not* mean you get to block a referral, discharge a patient still in pain, or decide that someone is 'making it up'.🤨

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

4 years

The things that have been 'invented' in surgery that women have been doing for centuries! The 'Aberdeen hitch' is chain stitch. Overlocking running sutures = blanket stitch. And the principles of placing hernia mesh are the same as patching knit fabrics. #ILookLikeASurgeon

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@squatsnscalpels

4 years

@hot_garnish @OrthopodReg I still remember throwing a locked suture really easily the first time CD showed me it... he asked where I knew it from it.. ‘Brownies - I’ve got my quilting badge’ 🤣 the look on his face was priceless

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@LiangRhea

3 years

I brought afternoon tea for a surgical meeting and was met with 'are those to eat, or is it your sewing?' It's to eat, I replied. But apparently it's quite common in Australia to keep sewing supplies in cookie tins! #Straya

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

2 years

Dear school educators, If you ask the girls, and only the girls, to stay behind so they can be told that spaghetti straps/tank tops are banned at school camp for 'comfort/sun safety' then you are, in fact, not concerned about comfort or sun safety, but policing women's bodies.🤨

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

3 months

If the student wasn't motivated to learn surgical anatomy already, I reckon they'll be even less keen after being mocked on social media by a resident who seems to think peritoneum and fascia are layers of the skin. 😖 #OperateWithRespect #MedEd

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@LiangRhea

4 years

Overheard in play area- 🧒🏼 asks parent about #BlackLivesMatter (Me: 😬, debating what I say/do if the response is awful) Parent: Well poppet, how boring would art be if you only had white crayons? You need all the colours to draw the best pictures. *That* is #parenting .❤

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@LiangRhea

4 years

The referral- '56 yo oddly dressed black man, presenting with X'... He was a Samoan man wearing a *lavalava* having just officiated at a ceremony. Let's be mindful that descriptors like 'well dressed' 'pleasant' or 'dishevelled' may reflect our cultural norms and biases. 1/2

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@LiangRhea

2 years

@sue_ecampbell @D_Melissa2 We did have a good laugh about it afterwards. You're right, if I can find a way to smash stereotypes while bringing people with me (not alienating them), I will. 🤗❤️

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@LiangRhea

2 years

Disappointed to see un-inclusive language in your publication, @ABCaustralia . This phrase is a siren call for hatred. 🤨

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

5 years

Dear on call consultant of another specialty- a growly 'don't you know it's Xmas?' is not justification to decline a referral nor speak disrespectfully to a registrar.🤨 And no, I'm not taken in by your faux politeness now. I heard how you spoke to the reg. #OperateWithRespect

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

3 years

All the #MedEd and #CultureChange IS WORTH IT. I only have brief visual memories- little snapshots. But they are of people I trained, or trained with, at the bedside, looking concerned. My overwhelming sense was of peace and relief at seeing them. I knew I was in safe hands. 6/13

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@LiangRhea

1 year

I was in two minds about the new 'kindness' guidance from the GMC; it felt like a good intention poorly phrased. I've changed my mind. This is such a clear example of how 'kindness' is used to threaten trainees into silence. We don't need 'kindness', we need *safety* #MedTwitter

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@LiangRhea

5 years

So for the #fashionistas who asked- this is a 1940s original passed down to me from my great-aunt Harriet who passed on last year aged 102. She was a #feminist who never married and I invoke her bolshiness every time I wear it. 💪💪💪

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@LiangRhea

3 years

Just because we're not likely to achieve actual zero #COVID19 doesn't mean we shouldn't aim for it. The 'let it rip' version of 'living with COVID' is a bit like saying, we'll never be Olympians, why bother teaching kids to swim? Just let them drown, and let's have freedom. 😑

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@LiangRhea

8 months

I made this tapestry pillow thirty years ago for a friend who was a keen angler. For thirty years it's sat near his favourite spot on the couch, zealously kept away from the cat, vacuumed gently once a year. Now he's died, the pillow has been gifted back to me. Such feelings. 💔

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@LiangRhea

3 years

Think twice about rushing to visit unwell colleagues. I hesitate to post this shaky selfie, but I will- because I need to stress how dishevelled, how unable to perform social niceties I was. (Also how badly those one-size-fits-all gowns fit😬) 7/13

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

3 years

@UniofNewcastle @thegradmedic I think there are 3 approaches to 'all pt comments = student feedback'- 1. Get SPs that aren't rank misogynists 2. Get examiners who aren't rank misogynists so they can correct the situation immediately 3. Get staff who aren't rank misogynists so they can correct it on review. 😒

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Rhea Liang

@LiangRhea

2 years

@Ortho_Cherry Hubby is a 1st gen doctor with parents who didn't complete high school because that wasn't an expectation for labourer's kids in the 70s. I'd grown up surrounded by medical texts and he'd grown up without even a bookcase in the house. It really opened my eyes to my privilege.

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