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Margaret McCartney

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

sunshineuk.org/doctor/6/activ… medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevide… Director, @beirasplace

Glasgow

margaretmccartney.com/blog

Joined April 2010

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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Sep 1, 2025
am beyond thrilled: the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare, University of St Andrews. critical appraisal, risk, ethical innovation, governance, leadership, bioethics, conflicts of interest....first event 31st October. Please join us! medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevide…
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Nov 29, 2024
if it's easier to get assisted dying than a place in a hospice we have utterly, royally screwed up
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Feb 14, 2025
small point of order. if you don't know the difference between male and female you are risking the misdiagnosis of heart attacks, anaemia, renal disease, and cardiovascular risk on blood tests alone.
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Jan 27, 2023
‘Why didn’t you speak up sooner’ - I did along with hundreds of other women. But you can’t force others to listen. And it seems that middle aged women are often written off and ignored.
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Jul 22, 2025
doctors need to know the sex of their patients for multiple clinical (safety) reasons. Sex is determined at conception and recognised often in utero and described at birth. It's not assigned like a random dicethrow. We know this.
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Jun 20, 2025
To support a law when so many professional organisations say is deeply flawed - and then expect those professional organisations to enact it- is reckless beyond belief.
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Feb 11, 2023
Could not agree more. These 3 women have done, unpaid, the work that the Scot gov/committees should have done. That evidence based critique has had to be done on this way is damning to @scotgov
For Women Scotland
@ForWomenScot
Feb 11, 2023
“Human beings can’t change sex. We’re not clownfish. Sex is fixed at birth." The wonderful @mbmpolicy telling it like it is! thetimes.co.uk/article/a0f785…
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Jan 27, 2023
The screeching noise of widespread backpedaling
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Dec 2, 2024
Palliative care: most is provided in primary care. The stalwarts here are the amazing DISTRICT NURSES who are one of the most under appreciated professionals and whose numbers have been DECIMATED in recent years.
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Jun 3, 2025
I’d like : A computer that doesn’t take 10mins to switch on An operating system that doesn’t crash 3-4 times a day A system that alerts me when tests/referrals I’ve requested haven’t been done Tony Blair: Britain should have AI doctors and nurses
Tony Blair: Britain should have AI doctors and nurses
From thetimes.com
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Nov 29, 2024
just a reminder that doctors have been getting things wrong since the start of time. overwhelming evidence that we don't judge quality of life the same as our patients do, and that discrimination happens against so 'normally' it's almost invisibly;
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Dec 3, 2024
Had a lovely day today @univofstandrews : yes you can do a PhD aged 53. Here is Prof Frank Sullivan who was my fantastic mentor. And yes you can read it here research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/3…
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Apr 1, 2023
Pleased to announce that am I leaving the NHS for Harley Street, where I will be offering a monthly subscription service of total body MRI, 300 innovative blood tests of various sorts and a specialist interest in prescribing off license drugs via remote AI enabled consultation.
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Margaret McCartney
@mgtmccartney
Oct 8, 2024
Possibly controversial but. I fear that more less qualified staff create more work and more inefficiencies while also doing more stuff. More gets done but not necessarily the things that need to get done. Costs go up, appts go up, but stress on drs goes up esp in 1st care .
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