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There are a lot of teachers and students with great Covid + vaccination questions. I hope this helps a few of those questions.

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…towards the end of this video, I forgot to mention my main inspiration for making this (in addition to my day job as an emergency doctor) is that I’m on the Huanui College Board of Trustees, a parent to two high school students, and friends with a lot of teachers and educational staff, who provided me with some of the questions and discussions underpinning his clip. Thanks for your questions — always happy to try to give good, reasonable advice.

(To be clear: I speak only for myself as a doctor and parent, not on behalf of any organisation!)

Anything I can do to help the NZ teacher and student/parent community, just ask. Happy to do a group Zoom Question-and-Answer session if needed/wanted.

Spread this blog post if you think it is useful.

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We bust a few medical myths about drowning. 

#lifeguarding

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The Lifeguard’s Drowning Dirty Dozen:

Fake News and Common Medical Myths Around Drowning

Dr. Gary Payinda

This was going to be a talk for lifeguards and ambulance officers/emts/paramedics arranged by Andrew Forsythe. Then a Covid outbreak got in the way! Hope it is useful to you.

click for the link to the writtten document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i_1G6M09wloKBUpzrlLlPdj2kJOkISLn86Clo523yfs/edit?usp=sharing

Link to the video:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1rSodh2xL6wFrS8x5

Dedicated to Mrs Phillipa Lauben, my science teacher at Hadley-Luzerne High School, New York, circa 1991.

This was supposed to be a speech delivered at the Central Northland Science Fair this week. But it was postponed due to Covid. It may still happen live, or it may occur in a digital format now that New Zealand is facing a Delta variant outbreak. I’m not great at public speaking, so maybe that turned out for the better….although apparently I’m not that much better on video either!

But ignore the messenger and listen to the message: science teachers are heroes, and the kids who enter their work into the “school science fair” will become our next generation’s engineers, technicians, doctors, and scientists.

Here’s a thumbs-up to kids building their scientific expertise, learning that science can be creative, and that it can be used to change lives and help people.

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[Editor's note: this episode will probably be of interest mostly to emergency doctors.] 

This was a stonking good issue of EMA. Lots of juicy articles, some with dreadful implications (propofol for migraine), some fascinating (4 hours rules sometimes are good, sometimes are bad, and often don't change much). A 20 minute summary and commentary cause I had too much time on my hands.

What are the issues for NZ nurses that are leading them to strike? What is the pay equity settlement? Safer staffing concerns? Sick leave requests? The role of foreign-trained nurses? Wages demands?

I'm a doctor working in a public hospital alongside nurses every day, and even I didn't really know much about the strike issues. I sat down with Nurse Jill Mortimer (a member of the NZNO nurses' union) and asked her a bunch of questions and she did her best to bring me up to speed.

Hope it's as useful for educating you on the issues, as it was for me.

-gary

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