Catherine Sikorski (@sikorskica) 's Twitter Profile
Catherine Sikorski

@sikorskica

Paediatric registrar, currently learning German. Mental health, neurodevelopment, family systems, schools, gardening, poetry. MPH. She/her.

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Eduardo Reyes (@edreyesjourno) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy 75th, NHS. Our daughter Amy has been a pretty heavy user of the NHS, including major heart surgery and, later, spinal fusion surgery. At one point she she was under 9 consultants. We spent enough time Evelina London that I'd sometimes bring a sketchbook; here, in ICU 2008

Happy 75th, NHS. 
Our daughter Amy has been a pretty heavy user of the NHS, including major heart surgery and, later, spinal fusion surgery. At one point she she was under 9 consultants. 
We spent enough time <a href="/EvelinaLondon/">Evelina London</a> that I'd sometimes bring a sketchbook; here, in ICU 2008
Ian Cushing (@ian_cushing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

it is impossible to define ‘speaking fluently’ without it being racist, classist and ableist. this bullshit rhetoric simply maintains the burden on marginalised communities to modify their voice, rather than addressing the structures that maintain race and class inequalities.

Catherine Sikorski (@sikorskica) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“If the brain were simple enough to understand, we would not be clever enough to understand it.” A mental health pharmacist, via the brilliant ‘Is Psychiatry Working?’ on BBC sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Kathryn Gardner (@kathrynjgardner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fantastic resource on "Autism in girls" written by the Autistic girls network. A must read for any practitioner or educator. If only the world understood and recognised autism in girls. autisticgirlsnetwork.org/keeping-it-all…

Fantastic resource on "Autism in girls" written by the Autistic girls network. A must read for any practitioner or educator. If only the world understood and recognised autism in girls. autisticgirlsnetwork.org/keeping-it-all…
Rory Conn (@roryconn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have worked hard to revise our national guidelines on Bodily Distress Disorder (previously "Medically Unexplained Symptoms"). A complex and nuanced area of medicine: pmha-uk.org/2023/07/06/bod… Royal College of Psychiatrists RCPCH rcpsychCAP

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‘The years ahead of us would turn on these moments. There were people who knew this—and thank goodness, because it meant they knew to put in our way something good. Something good enough. Something that would do.’ thelancet.com/journals/lance…