Jake Matthews
@JakeMat91

FY10 (Dr) interested in all things medical, research and education. I also throw around heavy things for fun. All views my own.

 Birmingham, UK
linktr.ee/jakemat91
Joined April 2018
Updating my CV unearthed ~180 pieces of unpaid medical writing, research and teaching from one decade. Almost none of it helped me climb the training ladder. I listed all of it anyway. #TeamGP #meded #FOAMed #academia #research #medicurious
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SYSK-3: Scurvy Sea Dogs, James Lind and Why we do trials, by @JakeMat91 #SYSK #MediCurious medicurious.substack.com/p/s… @LindAlliance
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#SYSK no 2. How redesigning a figure (and some complicated maths) changed how we decide when to do an RCT. Lives for #EBM students: Equipoise Meta analysis The power of figures What should we cover next? open.substack.com/pub/medicu…
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Studies You Should Know #SYSK A new series from #MediCurious The aim is to produce a syllabus, a cannon, a list of important studies and papers that changed medicine. I want this list to help teach students and clinicians about #EBM and history open.substack.com/pub/medicu…
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x.com/i/grok/share/MijIouQrK… #Grok just calculated that the #minimumwage in the UK would need to be less than £12/h to make employing a person more cost effective than the self checkout. Come on shops, save jobs and stop the rise of the machines!
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x.com/i/grok/share/xPgNNNaiI… #GrokAI plan for maximising anti cancer ingredients in diet
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The UK training pipeline in 2025. Bottlenecks at every step!
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Image by @grok
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This is insane @spectator Industrial energy electrical prices... this is why we can't make anything
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Resolution: Thou Shalt buy no more books until thou finish the top shelf
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If you want to study statins, then you need to start with the key studies, listed here: medicurious.substack.com/p/n…
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@TomPMarshall from this very small survey, it would appear that there is a need for a collaborative project.
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>70k #PubMed citations for #statins >8k trials Thousands of reviews Surely no one has read all of these? Becoming an "expert" in only a single drug is challenging.
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youtu.be/5LLk_xB071s?si=KEgm… Excess deaths 2020 to 2024 across the Anglosphere @OurWorldInData @DJohncambell
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Excess strokes, MIs and deaths still up since 2020 @DrJohnCampgroup youtu.be/-ZfMaDYuGHE?si=KOoL…

Many more strokes

Hospital admissions for strokes rise by 28% since 2004 – as NHS urg...

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open.substack.com/pub/medicu…
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Books for the new year. The cartoons are to help my son learn to read ... not for me at all 😉
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @DrGillespie_GP @dylanarmbruste3
I still find it interesting that there is quite a large reduction in CVD deaths but a much smaller reduction in overall deaths. But I admit that I am more convinced of a mortality benefit now.
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @DrGillespie_GP
It claims it improved over all mortality by 46% in 2 years but only reports relative rates in the text. Using this figure it looks like absolute rate goes from 1/100 life years to 0.5/100. I may have misunderstood but unlikely to improve mortality that much in 2 years?
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @DrGillespie_GP
It was conducted by AstraZeneca google.com/url?sa=t&source=w…
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @DrGillespie_GP
It was a post hoc analysis
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @DrGillespie_GP
The trial was stopped early which is unusual
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @DrGillespie_GP
The median follow up is 2 years and longest was 5 years
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Why is it important to think about #FreeSpeech in #medicine ? Because it is the course correction mechanism in #EBM #MedEd #MedTwitter #MerryXmas from #Medicurious
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Quick video summary of my favourite research projects and outputs ... As an experiment, what works best for sharing research? #MedEd #research #AcademicTwitter #MedTwitter #MediCurious #TeamGP
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The Pyramid of Medical Respect This is one of my most discussed posts / infographics. I wanted to create a #careerpath to #interesting jobs. What do you think? #MedEd #MediCurious open.substack.com/pub/medicu…
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New Post on #MediCurious It's not my cup of tea, but... 4 Authors that have helped me learn medicine and EBM but have also been controversial. linktr.ee/jakemat91 #MedTwitter #MedEd
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Replying to @NellLeach @drjessicawatson @UAPCWarwick @MidRCGP
#MERIS24 #collaborativeresearch @GPPACT great to hear about their success!
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#meris24 First one to claim a pew
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This weeks #MediCurious Some book, podcast and article recommendations #MedEd #BookTwitter #TeamGP #MedTwitter linktr.ee/jakemat91
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linktr.ee/jakemat91 Full article and just to slides available here
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This WhatsApp Group was started about 2 months ago. It's been shared via "word of mouth" and its already expanded to 181 primary care clinicians across the Midlands and beyond. Really proud of this one. It can be really satisfying to see an idea take hold #TeamGP
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Latest piece: linktr.ee/jakemat91 Advice to junior clinicians and students on how to maximise the impact of your academic work #TeamGP #RCGPAiT #MedEd #Academicchatter #medstudent @BWAMSbirmingham #MediCurious @UoBMBChB
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#TeamGP Thoughts on the pharma funding of #MedEd ? bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p165… #BadMedicine @bengoldacre
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @PubMedOnline
13/ researchgate.net/profile/Jac… So, Googling these questions has not produced any graphs (so far) but @ResearchGate has a great analytics tool. I have no idea how we judge if this is accurate though?
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @PubMedOnline
10/ and final, the number of publications by speciality. Interesting family medicine is 1.6! I suspect this may be different in the UK. What do you think? #MedTwitter #RCGPAiT #AcademicTwitter #TeamGP
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Replying to @JakeMat91 @PubMedOnline
9/ the average American doctor who gets a training post has 3.2 publications? And 2.3 research experiences?
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linktr.ee/jakemat91 Link to latest post with a more detailed timeline on the history of GP / Primary care and EBM #TeamGP #RCGPAiT #MedTwitter #MedEd #History @NellLeach
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And tracks doctors on Excel
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@NellLeach The standard "we are at a conference with a poster" photo
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linktr.ee/jakemat91 A poster on the history of GP and EBM. The art and science. Have we missed anything? #TeamGP #MedTwitter #MedEd @rcgp @MidRCGP @UoB_IAHR @OurHealthPship @GPPACT
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New shot putt PB of 15.43m and 2nd at the Welsh Indoor Shot champs again. #shotputt #athlete #fathlete youtu.be/9Q5lbvHrSV0?si=Lc-7…
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necs.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/inf… Pls share and complete 86/ aim for 300 so far... #MedTwitter #AMR @GPPACT @sapcacuk @wisegpcouk @NHSnecs @NHSEngland @NHSGIRFT @NHSDigital @OurHealthPship
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UK Primary Care and GP Research Do we just need a consolidated mailing list? @wisegpcouk @BJGPjournal @rcgp @GPPACT open.substack.com/pub/medicu…
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linktr.ee/jakemat91?utm_sour… Late to the party but I have finally summarised all of my writing, teaching, presentations and research in one archive.
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Speaking at @MidRCGP research symposium with the @OurHealthPship research collaborative about our plans to make all our practices and PCNs not just "research ready" but active. #teamGP #research #primarycare
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@AdmiralUK 30 mins on hold to the complaint department #complaint #Admiralinsurance
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@AdmiralUK I have just been on hold to your call centre for over an hour ... and then they cut me off. My car has been sat on my drive for over a month and not collected. And now I can't even ask you to collect it. I'd really appreciate some help please?
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The Bell Curve of Health ... how much is optimisation and how much is "over medicalisation" ? #MedTwitter #medicine #MedEd #statins #NICE
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@substack here is #MedSubstack #MedTwitter #MediCurious
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@OpenAI still needs a bit of fine tuning... has @TheSlyStallone torn his pec? OpenAI says "don't know" @Google and @nytimes says "Yes" #sportsmed #AI
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I've just learned a new phrase "a zebra hunter" = a clinician investigating a rare diagnosis. How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman is full of interesting insights like this... #MedEd #MedTwitter #BookTwitter #MediCurious
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@OpenAI what are the most highly rated medical books? This list is a fairly good response! #MedTwitter #MediCurious #booktwt #BookTwitter #BookRecommendations #bookreview
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@OpenAI How many medical books are there? Unfortunately no actual number. #MedTwitter #booktwt #BookTwitter #BookRecommendations
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I might be late on the band wagon but all new #medicalstudents and #doctors should watch #dopesick It is brilliant drama, well acted, fast plot but also eye opening! #addiction #opioidcrises #BigPharma #badmedicine #MedTwitter #MedEd
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@ArmyAthleticAAA Great day with the #AMS at the UK Midlands Athletics Championship today. Bit rusty after 2 years of COVID shutting down the events but good to be back. #throwing #Field
Butter in coffee ... there's no milk #NHS #Bulletproofcoffee #keto by accident
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I bought these in 2014 for elective when I still wanted to be a surgeon. They've sat on the shelf gathering dust ever since. Monday morning they will be revised for the 1st proper shift as #GPST O&G SHO. Will they be pink in 4 months? #thisisgoingtohurt #TeamGP
If I take away the #collaborative papers that I didn't write then total citations is 295 .... and the #kardashianindex is still too low! Clearly my Twitter chat is terrible
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Turns out my #kardashianindex is super low! Granted this does include #RIFTstudy and @STARSurgUK and @WMRC_UK papers but still ... Feels like screaming into the void here! #medtwitter #AcademicTwitter #Notabigname
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You have to love NHS mandatory training. This is a Medicines Management test ... all about being careful with drug prescribing ... can anyone spot the error? #lifeofajuniordoctor #medtwitter
The Dunning-Kruger curve ... completed it mate #MedEd #medtwitter
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#MedTwitter what does this even mean? I know I'm dyslexic but I can't work out what they want me to answer! #NTS #MedEd #TeamGP
There's always scrap wood ... I'm prepping
#TeamGP #MedTwitter what are the #Top10 papers that all GPs should read? I'll start with the Doll & Hill British doctors smoking study...
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Replying to @yourvoiz_org @pash22 @DrSelvarajah
The BMI data is referenced as the latest for this quarter and the exchange rate. The salaries was tricky but I took them from a range of websites for each country. Only meant to be a bit of fun rather. Full table below.
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The #Top20 countries for GP Salary and purchasing power. As determined by the #BigMacIndex #MedTwitter #TeamGP medicurious.substack.com/p/n…
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#WALvENG #6nations here we go! C'mon Wales
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Typical NHS ... a draw with holes on to hold blood bottles ... that fit through the holes and stop the draw opening and closing! #ThisIsGoingToHurt #ThisIsTheNHS #MedTwitter Any more?
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Typical examples of working in the NHS... the zombie hole punch... why can't we have a new one? #ThisIsGoingToHurt #ThisIsTheNHS #MedTwitter
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Did my first teaching for #GenPaeds today on the 20 simple principles for #MedEd to help junior docs and students build their confidence to teach and learn through teaching. More to follow #TeamGP #Paedsrocks #FOAMed #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
@JohnnyMercerUK One of the best Afghan War biographies I've read and one of the best memoirs with deep insight into combat stress and soldiers mental health. I'd highly recommend any #Military #doctor to #read #readinglist #RMAS
What better time than the #BoxingDay lull in the #Xmas holidays to do some revision and work on a new project @DrJamesGlasbey #MedEd #MedTwitter
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@JohnCleese #Creativity I bought this book on a hunch yesterday and its brilliant. I would highly recommend it! Even #doctors and #Scientists need creativity #MedTwitter #BookRecommendations
Replying to @credland_nicki
#dyslexia kicking in ... Read this thread as "Doctors & MAD scientists" and I thought ... thats a thread I really want to follow! Mad scientists on the front line of the pandemic, couldn't do it without them!
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Why oh why is it part of modern medical training that things like safe guarding need to be done in your free time on a Sunday evening? #MedEd #moaning
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Quote from Liars Poker... sounds very similar to #UKFPO #specialityselection "Like any selection process, this one had its…" by Michael Lewis amzn.eu/4tXc3AJ
Last ED night shift at the QEHB for a while. Its been a pleasure. #ED #TeamGP
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ED shift today. The hospital is full with a pretty long wait to see the medics but the ED feels calm. Best shift I've had in a while. Feels like the good old days of 2016. #EM #ED #UHB #QEHB #timeforacoffeebreak #MedTwitter
Beautiful way to start a Sunday morning ED Shift @qehbham Red sky in the morning, ED docs warning? #MedTwitter #EM
Anyone else's desk look like this? Piles of "handy" booms ready to be read #Medtwitter #textbooks #booknerd #tidydesk #messages #messymind
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Using Venn diagrams and risk scores to improve the teaching of chest pain differentials and ACS #MedEd #medtwitter #VennMed #FOAMed
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Replying to @TheBreachEM @dnepo @WMRC_UK @villesallinen
National meeting being organised for June 25 2020 on how to improve the management of #RIFpain and #appendicitis in the UK. Registration now open to all who are interested in working on this project. #RIFTStudy #SoMe4Surgery
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@WMRC_UK @NRCM2020 @dnepo @aneelbhangu @unibirm_MDS @unibirm_TRT @unibham_SoBMS @unibirmingham @UoBSurgery @IcgsUob @UoB_HSCLead @RIFTaudit #RIFTStudy #SoMe4Surgery #appendicitis #NAR #QIP #UK #NHS #collaborative @BJSurgery @LancetChildAdol
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