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Respiratory medicine consultant, from Malta, working in Leicester. Outside of work, likes Netflix, books, Star Wars and various geeky pursuits. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her

Joined April 2009
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🚨🌟Fantastic opportunity for x2 Locum Respiratory Consultants 🫁 in Pleural & Lung Cancer view advert for 2 new substantive posts v soon 🌟🚨Get in touch if you are interested. @UKPleura @BTSrespiratory @BTOGORG @Mesouk jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
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It’s that time of year 🗓️ 💥🚨Fantastic opportunity 🚨🌟as a Pleural/Interventional Pulmonology Fellow 🫁 at UHL Glenfield Hospital 🏥, Leicester starting August 2023: get in touch 👉 beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/j… @UKPleura @PleuralResearch @BTSrespiratory @BTSchair #BTSWinter2022
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Excellent first pleural session - great to be back for F2F meeting #BTSWinter2022 - well done @vellina @mdsyed Team Glenfield @EsmRrcv @Leic_hospital @kevingblyth
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“Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks if you’re happy.” - Heath Ledger
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Behind every COVID-19 statistic is a person. The initials of some of the lives we have saved are on our ‘tree of life’ outside of the adults intensive care unit a Glenfield Hospital. And the people we have lost remain in our hearts forever 💙
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When you’re homesick after a week’s trip home and you go back to work to find this. There’s no one like you guys x 🧡🥰💜 @SharonSavory3 @LungNurses
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It says “Welcome back Claire - I missed you” in Maltese
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This blow dealt by COVID is going to take months and years to grapple with... let alone all those people with undiagnosed psychiatric, cardiac diseases etc who are going to come to medical services very late! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-i…
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Yes we can agree that COVID’s pants, but maybe some parts of it are all right....
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