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Prof. Mark Taubert

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Prof. Mark Taubert

@ProfMarkTaubert

NHS Palliative Medicine Consultant ★ Vice-President @EAPCvzw ★Chair Future Care Planning NHS Wales Exec ★Editor @BMJ_SPCare⚡🇩🇪 👨‍🎤

Wales, United Kingdom

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Joined August 2013

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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Jun 19, 2023
An article I wrote for the @guardian on the pressures of having to be overly positive - and some of the inherent dangers
I thought I should always be positive with my patients – until I found out how damaging that can be...
From theguardian.com
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Jul 21, 2021
Mark Haddon on radical kindness and the NHS 💙
Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Mar 4, 2025
I'm sorry, this woman has not got ANY idea of clinical reality! I've just come off a ward round in the cancer centre. Many ppl with life-limiting illness but lots of active treatment. We have so many important matters to discuss&she wishes us to just casually place this bombshell
Kevin Yuill
@historykev
Mar 4, 2025
What? @kimleadbeater has just said that doctors MUST raise the issue of #assistedsuicide with terminally-ill patients, completely contradicting Clause 4(2) that does not obligate doctors to raise it. What a mess.
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Feb 13, 2025
Noise. Sorry, @kimleadbeater , I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Calling this much needed debate 'noise', calling the voices of the disabled, marginalised or abused 'noise'. How dare you?
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Jun 20, 2025
This is very wise. Danny, how I wish I had known of you before. I am merely a doctor who works with terminally ill pts on a daily basis. An incorrigible atheist (irrelevant, but also a bit inconvenient to black&white thinkers, I know, I know), with my petty concerns about aspects
Daniel Finkelstein
@Dannythefink
Jun 20, 2025
This is very wise. I also think it will prove very difficult. I have been struck by the vehemence of opponents of assisted dying, who seem certain it will produce coercive deaths and are not much moved by the terrible stories of pain and suffering which motivate supporters. Nor
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Mar 4, 2025
More than 60 organisations now raising concerns over this #AssistedDying Bill. Committee are failing to make them feel heard and trust is rapidly diminishing in the process
National Down Syndrome Policy Group
@NDSPolicyGroup
Mar 4, 2025
Replying to @JamillaHussain1
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Jun 14, 2025
If this particular #AssistedDying Bill is voted through, there will be a public inquiry into failings within 5-10 ys. I have therefore kept notes of all correspondence with Government & MPs, so that there can't be doubt abt what they did & did not know now &what they let through
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Mar 10, 2025
From @TheBMA "Assisted Dying is not a health activity and it must not take place in NHS or other health facilties" Motion 46 This has just been voted on and passed in the BMA consultant conference.
James Bundy
@jamesbundy
Mar 10, 2025
BMA Consultants have raised concerns about the Assisted Dying Bill 👇
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Jun 17, 2025
I get the feeling that some MPs haven't scrutinised the #AssistedDying bill& are voting for this because they feel that Kim Leadbeater is a good egg, which undoubtedly she is. But this is NOT voting 4 your favourite act at Eurovision, this is seismic law change at breakneck speed
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Jul 1, 2021
A patient: ‘I do NOT want to talk about dying’ Me: ‘No problem, let’s talk about you living’ Pt: ‘Sounds good’ Followed by a long chat about preferences & #WhatMattersMost to them. D-word didn't have to feature Made me think about how much conversations have to be individualised
Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Nov 30, 2024
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said part of the reason he could not vote for assisted dying was because palliative care was not good enough. Now is the time to fix that.
Calls to fix palliative care before allowing assisted dying
From bbc.co.uk
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Sep 18, 2020
Instead of saying 'withdraw care', how about saying 'increase care' - but with different treatment focus? We DON'T stop caring, even in ITU settings, when the big machines/drugs don't succeed. Attention to words. #hpm#MedStudentTeaching #NoCeilingOfCare
Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Dec 12, 2024
With regard to #AssistedDying some reflections: a fairly large chunk of those people who may be expected to deliver this (geriatricians, GPs, oncologists, nurses, judges, courts, hospices) are either v actively opposed to it, or wouldn't want to be involved. 🧵
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Prof. Mark Taubert
@ProfMarkTaubert
Apr 3, 2025
New: A study from Munich on #AssistedDying has raised concerns. Contrary to commonly held beliefs, the majority of service users were not terminally ill. And the majority were elderly females from more affluent backgrounds. A thread. 🇩🇪 blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/04…
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