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Michael Livingston

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Michael Livingston

@DrMLivingston

Rural Generalist. Doctor. Father. Pilot. Tweets are my own and do not reflect the views and policies of Livingston Medical PTY LTD.

Western Australia, Australia

livingstonmedical.com.au

Joined May 2019

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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Sep 27, 2023
Surreal consults today. Talking to unmasked patients about constant fatigue, constantly sickness with the ‘flu’ wanting blood tests to look for something ‘wrong’. As there must be something wrong. Right? Oblivious. Absolute oblivious. I wonder do they look at me and have
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Jun 27, 2023
At a conference in Italy Judges Barristers Dentists Doctors Coughing, Sneezing, someone was blowing their red nose today. Not one single person has attempted to sit beside me or talk to me even when seat space was limited. The 2 people that did sit beside me moved after 20
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Sep 23, 2023
Here’s an interaction I had this week. The mask appears to trigger people, who ignorant I deal with immunosuppressed patients or just don’t care, well one of them (a patient) asked me why was I wearing a mask? I thought they were concerned about themselves or me. Before I could
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Oct 7, 2023
“It’s ok I said. We’re done.” She smiled and thanked me. The oncologist wanted another round, another trial, another drug. Jaundiced with as much meat on her, as a KFC chicken wing sucked dry, she was done. It was over. That’s how we came to the decision about her metastatic
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Nov 22, 2023
So yes as we said Over and over COVID a pansystemic, vasculitic, immune damaging, pro-inflammatory, neurologically punishing, cardiac injuring, pro-thrombotic, autoimmune driving virus. If you are genetically predisposed to any disease, COVID is the rocket fuel that will
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Aug 28, 2023
I shit ye not. Just happened. Just been into ED to see some patients and Infection Control are visiting and checking the water supply as another location had listeria. Anyway one of the infection control people then abruptly asks me about the 5 stages of hand washing. 1. We
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Jul 28, 2023
Well well well At work so many patients presenting with ‘flu’ “It’s the sickest I have ever been” “I have no energy” “I have been sick for 4 week and lost 12kg” “I need antibiotics” “I need steroids and antibiotics” What links them No flu 💉
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Dec 28, 2023
I am so proud out her As the year draws to an end she has been fastidious in her approach to Covid. She has never had a day off school sick, ever. Zero, zilch. She actively chooses to wear her mask and carries her HEPA filter everywhere. She puts it in faster than we do
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Aug 17, 2023
Hahaha ahahahah what utter twaddle. My daughter has worn a mask since the beginning of COVID, still does at school and everywhere we go and read this out loud. ZERO respiratory infections. ZERO, Nil, Nada. Sweet Eff A. We wear them at work, all the staff and guess what no
Prof Peter Collignon
@CollignonPeter
Aug 16, 2023
I think masks give you short term protection. BUT they won’t likely stop most people getting an infection over a 3 month period. If you assume masks are 80% effective and you have one exposure per week to covid, with 100% transmission to the unmasked, then after 12 weeks then
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Dec 30, 2023
At the @monamuseum and it begs the question. When did decency die? Forget your views on vaccination, mask wearing and the rest for a second. The amount of coughing, sneezing and obviously sick people here are all 100% unmasked. Wandering about so congested one guy said he
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Jun 2, 2023
There you have it. My daughters cross country. She ran it 😷 in hand as she didn’t want it out of sight when not wearing it. Meanwhile out of 200 students about 70 turned up. Rest? sick with “Covid” was the answer. Her teacher? Also off sick. #CovidIsNotOver
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Jan 30, 2024
Right…..so all the unmasked Covid positive patients I see daily, coughing, spluttering, long Covid, fatigue brain fog Yet I don’t catch it from any of them As,wait a minute, I wear a high quality N95, as does my wife who works in the same medical centre with exactly the same
Robin Monotti
@robinmonotti
Jan 30, 2024
And in shocking other news in the "I Told You So" section: "No evidence face masks protected vulnerable from Covid, health officials admit" "A rapid review report published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) investigated if high-quality masks, such as the N95, KN95 and FFP2
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Oct 18, 2023
IgA nephropathy. If you have never heard of it, keep your eyes and ears open. I can’t recall Pre Covid a case of it. Now thanks to COVID I have just come across my 4th case. Four, like wtf. One of them needs a kidney transplant and asked the nephrologist why they had it?
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Michael Livingston
@DrMLivingston
Oct 7, 2023
Here’s another one @hamishandandy I had a 19 day old neonate brought into my GP practice which is 50km from the Emergency Department I also cover on my own. The baby had a circumcision the previous few days and was not feeding. It was grey, floppy, mottled, tachypnoeic,
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